LAS VEGAS – It may not be too hard to lure Juan Manuel Marquez into another fight with Manny Pacquiao.
Bob Arum, boxing’s greatest promoter, said Saturday’s fight was a huge success that setting a fourth fight wouldn’t be as difficult as making the third one.
Arum said gate receipts at the MGM Grand will hit as high as $1.7 million based on the crowd figure of 16,368. There were also 16,000 closed circuit seats sold in the different MGM Properties.
“You can’t do better than a sellout, and that’s music to my ears,” said Arum.
Marquez will get his share in the gates, as well as the pay-per-view sales, and counting his guaranteed purse of $5 million he stands to get as much as $10 million.
“Marquez should be making $9 million to $10 million, and that’s a lot of money. So I will sit down with him,” said the chief of Top Rank Promotions.
Pacquiao was guaranteed $22 million for the fight, and Arum said it may hit $30 million once everything comes in.
Under the fight contract, Marquez will receive a guaranteed purse of $10 million in case a fourth fight between him and Pacquiao happens.
And by announcing his plans to retire, Marquez may have just upped his personal value.
He can easily ask more than what’s stated in the contract just to make a fourth fight happen.
Arum said the pay-per-view numbers for Saturday’s fight are promising as well.
“We are tracking near 1.5 million (hits at $54.99 each),” he said.
Source: philstar.com
