The first lawsuit was filed in Nevada on Tuesday, but others were filed later in the day, including two in Calfornia, and one each in Texas and Illinois.
One of the California lawsuits was filed on behalf of Paul Mahoney, who paid $99.95 for the pay-per-view telecast. It claims that Pacquiao's failure to disclose his shoulder injury turned the Fight of the Century into the "Sleight Of The Century."
"Pacquiao's injury unquestionably materially, significantly and negatively affected the quality of the product," the suit reads.
The lawsuit filed in Illinois on behalf of four of the state's residents not only names Pacquiao, his manager Michael Koncz and his promotional company Top Rank, but also names Floyd Mayweather, Mayweather Productions, fight producers HBO and Showtime and pay-per-view providers AT&T, Comcast and DirecTV.
"Our state has a law that prohibits concealing or misrepresenting material information with consumers and, within the context of boxing, Manny Pacquiao's shoulder injury is a material fact," said Bob Duncan, one of the lawyers for the Illinois plaintiffs. "Had our clients known that the underdog had a shoulder injury, they wouldn't have thought that this fight was worth watching."
That lawsuit also enters the prefight questionnaire Pacquiao filed out for the Nevada Athletic Commission as an exhibit. Pacquiao checked the "no" box to the question "Have you had any injury to your shoulders, elbows or hands that needed evaluation or examination?"
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5 comments:
"There's a sucker born every minute..."
First: Who the hell thinks that anyone loses this fight when the LOSER walks away with $100 million?
Secondly: How much do you really want to hurt a guy in a fight that will be your next ticket to another $100 million?
Lastly: Has no one learned ANYTHING from Roberta Duran's "No Mas" fight? You pay $5000 for a ringside seat and the guy quits because he had too big a lunch?
Prizefighting today is little more than pro wrestling.
I'd go to ANY Golden Gloves' bout before I'd ever pay a dime to see two guys dancing over splitting a $300 million dollar purse.
We know the NFL is fixed. In the Supreme Court, they argued that football was not a sporting event, but entertainment. Why would boxing be any different?
I watched it, and I don't believe the injury nonsense at all. It looked like two guys happy to dance their way to their paychecks.
As usual the lawyers will make money and the class action member will get pennies on the dollar.
I have had the same injury,as I assume a lot of you out there have.If it is true he must have taken massive pain killers before the fight.
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