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Pacquiao’s legacy bigger than Floyd—Gibbons

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EIGHTH-DIVISION world champion Manny Pacquiao will be fighting undefeated unified welterweight king Errol Spence Jr. on August 21 aiming to cement a legacy bigger than his retired arch nemesis Floyd Mayweather Jr.

“Senator Manny is motivated more than ever, it’s the biggest fight of his life,” International matchmaker Sean Gibbons told BusinessMirror on Thursday. “This is bigger than any of the fights he had because of what’s at stake, what he’s trying to accomplish, making history at his age, and the legacy will be bigger than Floyd Mayweather.”

The Pacquiao-Spence fight is a Fox Sports Pay-Per-View headliner set at the 20,000-seat T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Gibbons said Pacquiao is bound to join the sport’s greatest, among them Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson to name a few.

And although Pacquiao, 42, lost to Mayweather in a blockbuster duel six years ago, Gibbons said the Filipino boxing icon’s accomplishment would shine brighter.

“Mayweather couldn’t do this at almost 43 [years old]. Senator Pacquiao’s legacy with a win over Spence blows away Mayweather’s little legacy,” Gibbons said. He beat the senator with his shitty style, it gave the senator problems, and he got the decision.”

“But Mayweather always ruins boxing. He let the fans run away from the sport because he doesn’t want to fight,” he added.

Gibbons warned the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Council welterweight champion Spence (27-0 win-loss record with 21 knockouts) that he could be “headed to a car wreck” against the experienced Pacquiao (62-7-2 win-loss-draw record with 39 knockouts).

“Errol is in the best shape of his life because he’ll be heading to another ‘car wreck.’ He has never experienced the hand speed, foot speed, the power and the boxing [of Pacquiao],” Gibbons said. “With the senator really motivated, he is a very dangerous guy.”

Select tickets will be on sale on Thursday ahead of their availability to the general public on Friday.

The Pacquiao-Spence confrontation, Gibbons said, will definitely surpass his previous fights in terms of ticket sales.

Gate receipts in the Pacquiao-Keith Thurman fight Pacquiao won in July 20, 2019, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas were pegged at $6,260,275 from 11,436 tickets sold.

Pacquiao’s 12-round unanimous decision win over former four-division champion Adrien Broner in the same venue in January 2019 generated $6,000,032 from 11,410 tickets sold.

Spence also drew a huge crowd in his pandemic fight last December 5 against Danny Garcia at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Sales produced $2,615,075 from 14,508 tickets despite social distancing restrictions.

That was Spence’s first fight since he recovered from a fatal car accident in Dallas last October 10, 2019.

The Pacquiao-Mayweather clash stood as the best-selling event in boxing history with $72,198,500 in ticket sales.

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