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BOB ARUM {SNAKE} BLAMES MANNY PACQUIAO FOR PACQUIAO-BRADLEY 3 LOW PPV NUMBERS

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Channel: Shady Slim · 2016 · Sports

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Bob Arum throws Manny Pacquiao under the bus blaming him for low ppv numbers
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Yes, it loses money," Arum said. "It was not one of our big successes. It happens. We're big boys. Do I feel good about it? No."

Pacquiao, boxing's only eight-division titleholder and the icon of the Philippines, had already faced Bradley twice in fights virtually everybody thought Pacquiao won easily, though Bradley received a split decision win in their hugely controversial first fight in 2012. Pacquiao won the 2014 rematch in similarly dominant fashion and few were asking for a third fight, which Pacquiao also won handily.

But Arum said the poor numbers were not a matter of the public being tired of the matchup. Rather, he said it was more a combination of two other elements -- the overwhelmingly negative public reaction to Pacquiao's recent anti-gay comments, in which he said that homosexuals are "worse than animals," and because of a hangover from May's Floyd Mayweather-Pacquiao megafight, which cost $100 for pay-per-view and delivered so little that many fans are still upset about it.

"Certainly the pushback from Manny's gay remarks killed us," Arum said. "It hurt us a lot. But I think it was also less a reaction to the match than a reaction to the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. It was a reaction like Mayweather got. Mayweather also got punished [by consumers]."

When Mayweather defeated Andre Berto in September in his retirement fight, his first since the Pacquiao bout, it also did very poorly, generating around 400,000 buys on Showtime PPV.

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