Marquez expected to get 15 $ million for Pacquiao 5th fight

 Juan Manuel Marquez (55-7-1, 40 KO’s) stands to make between 15$ million to fight  Pacquiao (55-5-2, 38 KO’s) on April 12th, according to Fightnews. Bob Arum of Top Rank wants Marquez as Pacquiao’s opponent for this fight date, and he doesn’t seem ready to take no for an answer.

It’s pretty easy to see why given Pacquiao’s incredibly low pay-per-view numbers for his last fight against Brandon Rios last month. After that disaster, Arum needs a proven PPV money fighter, and the only one he’s got that he can count on to boost Pacquiao to 1 million buys and over is Marquez.

With many pacman fighting Marquez, could get expect an additional 600,000 buys at the minimum, and that’s not Pacquiao bringing those fans in. You can bet that those fans wouldn’t be paying for the fight just to see Pacquiao.

They’d be fans of Juan Manuel Marquez paying to see him destroy Pacquiao for a 2nd time time and beat arguably for the 5th straight time after having lost twice by controversial decisions and robbed by a draw in his first fight with manny pacquiao. A lot of the fans would be paying to see Marquez put Pacquiao out of his misery and sending him into a permanent retirement.

As we saw in manny pacquiao’s fight against Rios, he can’t pull in the fans unless he’s got an opponent that can bring in the PPV buys like Marquez. That’s why Marquez deserves nothing short of a 50-50 deal. If he can’t get that then he shouldn’t bother wasting his time, because it’s only fair that he get half when it’s mostly his fans that are making the fight a big deal.