Mayweather's attorney on why he has to fight May 5th

“My entire argument to [Saragosa] was that he was committed [to the MGM for May 5], this is what he does for a living, the D.A. had agreed to it, so can we please honor our pre-existing commitment,” Wright said. “[I said] ‘There will be collateral consequences that flow out of breaching it.’ I didn’t say it couldn’t be breached, because it could, but I said, ‘Hey, here’s where we are, and these things aren’t put together on a day’s notice.’ You don’t just move these things around.

“There are commitments to the arena, there are commitments to cable networks and the opponent was known and a back-up was known. That’s the reality of it. That’s how it evolved. At this [expletive] point, any idea that I’m going to go waltzing back in there and say, ‘Hey Judge, these things I told you that we committed to clear back on Nov. 2 and said we can’t just move it around? Well, I changed my mind. I now need to move it around.’ That just can’t happen.”

Here's the other part of the article that deals with this topic;

A spokeswoman for Saragosa said Thursday that Jan. 6, “the judge ordered the defendant to surrender at a particular time on June 1. That was the order.” Nothing in Saragosa’s order precluded Mayweather from boxing on a different date.

Wright said that while that is technically true, it is all but impossible to ask the judge to allow him to move the fight back and, thus, push back Mayweather’s report time to some point later than June 1.

Wright said that on Nov. 2 he asked then-Clark County District Attorney David Roger if it would be all right if Mayweather scheduled a fight for May 5 and could push back his felony trial until sometime after that point. Wright said Roger agreed. Roger, who resigned as district attorney on Jan. 1, said Thursday his agreement with Wright was “somewhat conditional.” Roger said he had no problem extending the trial date beyond May 5 if Mayweather were bound over for a felony trial.

At the time Wright said he spoke to Roger, Mayweather was facing a misdemeanor domestic violence charge and a felony grand larceny charge. Under Nevada law, a felony is tried in District Court, while a misdemeanor is tried in Justice Court. Roger said barring a plea, which ultimately occurred, he had no problem pushing the felony trial beyond May 5.
Pushing the date of the felony trial back allowed Mayweather’s team to make a deal for the May 5 fight against an unnamed opponent at the MGM Grand Garden. But then, when Mayweather was unexpectedly sentenced to a 90-day jail term on the misdemeanor Dec. 21, Wright had to scramble.

He asked Saragosa to push the start of the sentencing back so Mayweather could honor his commitment to fight May 5. Then, he said he asked for three weeks after the fight before Mayweather had to report so that any injuries he might sustain in the bout would have healed before he had to report to jail.


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I truly believe both fighters want to fight on May 5th. We all know this is only person trying to hold this up. Pacquiao just needs to put his foot down and tell Arum that he won't be fighting anyone not named Mayweather.

 

Both before and after the Marquez fights Pacquiao has stated that he has no problem fighting on May 5th. He has fought on the first Saturday in May 2 of the last 3 years. Since 2007, it's been a huge day for boxing. Go read any articles from as far back as the summer when Mayweather announced he was fighting Ortiz. Pretty much every writer was talking about how it would setup a May 5th fight between May and Pac. There's a damn good reason why everyone assumed it would be on that day.