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Arum is not a fool. He and top rank are masters at match making. He admitted it a couple of weeks ago when he said Haymon destroyed everything they built in regards to JCC Jr loss. He knew five years ago this fight wouldn't have been as close as it was last night. When Floyd easily handled Marquez, a fighter that has always gave Pacquiao trouble, Arum knew he would make more money putting the fight off until Manny was nearing the end of his career. If Manny would have lost this fight five years ago Top Rank would've missed out on millions of Manny PPV fights. Bob is not a fool, he cashed out at the right time. Now he has Crawford coming up. He'll sacrifice Manny to make Crawford a house hold name. You don't make it 30+ years in the game giving the fans what they want when they want it.

I wanna throw an edit here to make my point again. Cotto started losing when he left Top Rank. When he went back to them promoting his fights he started winning again and now he's the lineal MW champion although he's not the best MW lol.

benion wrote:Arum is not a fool. He and top rank are masters at match making. He admitted it a couple of weeks ago when he said Haymon destroyed everything they built in regards to JCC Jr loss. He knew five years ago this fight wouldn't have been as close as it was last night. When Floyd easily handled Marquez, a fighter that has always gave Pacquiao trouble, Arum knew he would make more money putting the fight off until Manny was nearing the end of his career. If Manny would have lost this fight five years ago Top Rank would've missed out on millions of Manny PPV fights. Bob is not a fool, he cashed out at the right time. Now he has Crawford coming up. He'll sacrifice Manny to make Crawford a house hold name. You don't make it 30+ years in the game giving the fans what they want when they want it.

Exactly!! Like I said, someone started a topic "When did Manny LOSE this fight"? I stated the moment back in 2010 when he decided to DUCK out of taking the drug testing.