BOXING great Manny Pacquiao wants much more than the reported $7 million he has been offered to fight Jeff Horn at Suncorp Stadium on April 23.
Arum, the CEO of Top Rank boxing, has come to an agreement with Horn's promoters Duco Events for an April 23 bout, most likely at Suncorp Stadium.
Pacquiao is yet to sign the contract but is receptive to the idea - even if he knows little about 28-year-old Horn, dubbed the 'fighting schoolteacher'.
"I'm hoping that the fight will be in Australia, I'd love to do that," he said.
His financial adviser has told him not to sign anything until there is more cash on the table. While Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum that “it would be wrong to reveal Manny’s purse’’ as such matters were confidential, Mike Koncz, Pacquiao’s Canadian adviser, said he was “aghast’’ when he heard the figure of $US5 million at Horn’s press conference last week announcing the fight.
“Manny even asked me if I agreed to that and I told him ‘of course not. You know me better than that.’” Konz.
