Manny Pacquiao’s options for well -paid fights like the one he had last Saturday against Mario Barios are very limited. The 46-year-old former multi-division world champion Pacquiao’s undeserved title challenge against WBC Welterweight Champion Barrios (29-2-2, 18 COs) was not exciting to look at. The buzz of fans were completely missing for this battle.
Barrios rematch questions
Pacquiao received a large wallet that it was $ 12.6 million for the fight. The price of the PPV, $ 79.99, probably resulted in very few purchases last Saturday. The question is, which promoter would be prepared to finance the Barrios Rematch for the Philippine Star? They can’t be excited to want to pay for Pacquiao’s big wallet again if the PPV buys and holes -money doesn’t cover the wallets.
Manny’s Falling PPV Trek
The reality is that Pacquiao is no longer a large enough PPV draw to bring in the massive purchases he has made in the past. Here are some of Manny’s largest PPV purchases during its peak from 2008 to 2015:
- Oscar de la Hoya – December 2008: 1.25 million ppv buy
- Ricky Hatton – May 2009: 1.75 million
- Miguel Cotto – November 2009: 1.25 million
- Antonio Margarito – November 2010: 1.15 million
- Shane Mosley – May 2011: 1.34 million
- Juan Manuel Marquez III – November 2011: 1.4 million
- Juan Manuel Marquez IV – December 2012: 1.15 million
- Floyd Mayweather jr. – May 2015: 4.6 million
It would be happy if the Saturday’s Pacquiao vs. Barrios event even generates 100,000 ppv purchases, given the limited interest in this battle and the undercard associated with it.
Financial reality for pacquiao
Manny’s adviser, Sean Gibbons, mentioned that he wants Germavonta Davis or WBA Welterweight Champion Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero as next opponents. There is no chance that Tank Davis is fighting against Pacquiao. It doesn’t happen. He is not so desperate.
Fighting Rolly Romero would be no different than facing Barrios again. Rolly is not a PPV attraction, and a fight against him would create little interest from fans. An event between Pacquiao and Romero would probably bleeding money for the promoter it made.
“The only other alternative is to do it again. I don’t know who pays for it. I don’t know what the PPV purchase was. I can’t imagine being so high, and you didn’t get away from the fight and thought, ‘I had to see it again. “It wasn’t the kind of thriller that made you see to see Pacquiao and Barrios running,” Chris Mannix says on his channel About the options for Manny Pacquiao’s next battle if he prefers to encounter Mario Barrios in a rematch.
It would be risky for a promoter to set up a second battle between Pacquiao and Barrios unless Manny was willing to vote to a smaller wallet. There is not enough interest from fans to see them again. Barrios looked unfit, and Pacquiao looked very old.
“I hope he does other things. I don’t want to see him in the ring long enough to see someone wipe him out, and it comes at some point. If he is fighting the wrong man, it will come for Manny Pacquiao, ‘says Mannix.
Last updated on 07/22/2025
