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Doctors Orders: Manny Pacquiao – Floyd Mayweather, JR will Not Be Prescribed Until Next YEAR

Do you argee with Doctor Hussain that the fight will not be made until next year?

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Mayweather-Pacquiao1By Doctor Ibrahim Hussain

I know the media is very hopeful that the mega fight will take place on May 2nd between Floyd Mayweather, JR. and Manny Pacquiao.

However let’s break it down. Both Floyd and Manny are tied into TV or promotional contracts until the end of this year with Showtime and Bob Arum who is on HBO. That is assuming Mayweather fights twice this year and fulfills his multi-fight deal with Showtime, and Manny Pacquiao doesn’t renew with Bob Arum in January 2016. Therefore both of them can fight next year and make the maximum return on their investment of blood sweat and tears, as they prepare themselves for the biggest fight in the history of the sport in terms of financial revenue.

So why not take this fight at a time when both of them can benefit the most? After all it is a business, and wouldn’t anybody else do the same? (Others have, and benefitted them and their families massively) Or would you rather fight while you are under contract with the television stations, and not make way more money?

Yes the fight is five years too late in terms of them both being at their peak. But we will all still watch the fight, and one more year, at this stage, will not make that much difference now. I still predict the fight will happen next year, but it will definitely happen.

This will probably be their last big payday, and hopefully they will have a long life ahead. They’ve got to do what is best for them, because we will not be supporting them financially after they leave the hurt business.

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