PACQUIAO?S FIRST TRAINER RICK STAHELI BELIEVES MAYWEATHER WILL FIGHT MANNY AGAIN NEXT YEAR
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 18 Sep 2015
American trainer Rick Staheli who led eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao to his first world title ? the EBC flyweight crown with a spectacular 8th round knockout of Thai hero Chatchai Sasakul believes Mayweather will fight Pavcquiao in a rematch when the new 20,00 seat state if the art which thwe MGM Grand Garden Arena Casino moguls are building within walking distance of the old venue.
Dick Powell of the Daily Mail claimed that no matter how many times Floyd Mayweather says his career ended with his record-equaling 49th fight, most of the boxing world expects to see him back in the ring next year.
Powell reports that Mayweather, the former ppound for pound king will probably ? respectfully observe his retirement for a year, give Manny Pacquiao time to come back from injury with an impressive win in the spring and then do another mega-bucks re-match on Mexico independence weekend next September. That is his other annual date.
Never mind that the so-called ?Fight of the Century? between Mayweather and Pacquiao this May was a dire anti-climax ? and an expensive one at that for those paying tens of thousands of dollars for a ticket and a hundred bucks for pay-per-view television subscriptions.
Both Powell and Staheli agree that a rematch is still the biggest money fight out there. Even if they rake in less than 50 per cent of the half-billion dollar gross from that non-event, Mayweather will bank more than another $100million, Pacquiao just under that figure.
Staheli told the New Standard/boxingmirror.com that Mayweather ?is a numbers guy and although he claimed beating heavyweight champioin Rocky Marciano?s Record of 49 -0 ?didn?t mean
anything Floyd wants to go 50-0 and maybe have one or tnwo more fights because the Andre Berto fight was like a sparring session.
While both Mayweather and Pacquiao cannot make anything as close as what they made in their first fight, it would still enable both men to make some big money.
Staheli was sure the rematch would be ?a better fight? especially if Pacquiao is completely healed following surgery on a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder.
The well-known Americabn trainer who keeps track of all the developments in boxing through a number of contacts in the US boxing scene told us that ?Floyd was serious in training for the first fight and because in his mind he won that fight real easy, he may not train as hard for the rematch.?
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