{"id":49826,"date":"2015-05-19T14:12:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T06:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49826"},"modified":"2015-05-19T14:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T06:13:59","slug":"fight-of-century-becomes-fight-in-court-as-fans-sue-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/19\/fight-of-century-becomes-fight-in-court-as-fans-sue-pacquiao\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight of century becomes fight in court as fans sue Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color:#fff;display:inline-block;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#a7a7a7;font-size:11px;width:100%;max-width:594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow:hidden;position:relative;height:0;padding:66.666667% 0 0 0;width:100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/472161774?et=irvbfH1VRypYNjSQBjB6hQ&#038;viewMoreLink=on&#038;sig=oKw3gn95zJSkwuPi-rEuzh2IoJsFdaPK4L3dOybayuY=&#038;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"display:inline-block;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"padding:0;margin:0 0 0 10px;text-align:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/472161774\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">View image<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Boxing fans across the country or at least their lawyers are calling the hyped-up fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. a fraud. They want their money back, and then some.<\/p>\n<p>Some 32 class action lawsuits had been filed through Monday alleging primarily the same thing: that Pacquiao&#8217;s pre-existing shoulder injury should have been disclosed to fans ahead of time. The lawsuits from several different states say fans may have decided not to pay $89 or $99 for the pay-per-view fight if they had known the fighter wasn&#8217;t in tip-top shape.<\/p>\n<p>Same goes for nightclubs and bars who say they spent thousands for the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Legal experts doubt the cases have a chance, saying any contractual obligation Pacquiao had was not directly with his fans or pay-per-view buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com LAS VEGAS \u2014 Boxing fans across the country or at least their lawyers are calling the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-kimberly-pierceall","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}