7 Oct 2016

Fans Litigation for Record-Breaking Boxing Match

According to a report by Law360, pay-per-view customers accuse Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, and their affiliates on the grounds that they hid Pacquiao’s shoulder injury to boost ratings and sales of the highly anticipated 2015 fight between the two powerhouse boxers. The fans defended their allegations that the boxers forged a bogus fight, foreseeing a decent payout of $500 million. “Concealment of Manny Pacquiao’s injury was not an unfortunate eventuality anticipated by the rules of sport and its fans, it was a [staged] plan to cash in on the biggest payday in boxing history at the expense of the millions of consumers who would learn, after the fact, that they had paid unprecedented prices to watch a one-armed man lose a fight,” the fans said. Viewers hail from 12 states. Boxing fans are represented by Hart Robinovitch and Caleb Marker of Zimmerman Reed.