“He tells me it feels better, he went swimming the other day, he’s playing a little basketball so he says it’s coming along fine”. I don’t think he will stop at 49 fights, I think he’ll fight to 50. What we don’t want to see/hear is Pacqiuao blaming a loss to Khan on his shoulder not being 100%.
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Pacquiao is now taking time out to commune at his Maitum beach house to rehabilitate his injured shoulder after he underwent operation right after the Mayweather fight last May. Since losing a unanimous decision to Mayweather, Pacquiao has said that the injury affected him during the bout.
Mayweather’s record paydays may offset the risk to return to the ring though, especially with Mayweather’s superior conditioning and ability to avoid taking major punishment in his fights.
Still, a fight between Pacquiao and Garcia is also an interesting event to see that could also settle the score between the two camps.
For Khan to get a fight against Pacquiao, he’ll likely need to agree to either a 75-25 or 70-30 split.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum was in the meantime jetting to London to meet with the handlers of Amir Khan to look into the possibility of a Pacquiao-Khan fight in the middle east which is a lucrative market Arum wishes to break in to.
The lawsuits argue the injury wasn’t revealed until after the fight, too late for 4.4 million viewers who had already paid up to $100 each to watch it. HBO and Showtime have said they earned more than $400 million from the fight. That’s the easiest fight in the f***ing world, you can tell his dad that as well. Not to take anything away from Danny Garcia, but Pacquiao facing Garcia is no different that Mayweather Jr. fighting Berto. “Financially he would make a lot of money, but I don’t know what it is”.
Garcia recently made the move up to welterweight, defeating Paulie Malignaggi with a ninth-round TKO on Aug. 1 in his first fight at the 147-pound weight limit.
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Boxing Scene notes that Khan and Pacquiao were once sparring partners under Freddie Roach until the former left his Wild Card Gym in 2012 to be trained by Virgil Hunter.
