The "All Things Mayweather/Pacquiao" Express!!!!!!

That's pretty dumb. Stylistically, the longer they wait the worse it is for Pac. Pac's high output style requires youth, while Mayweather's low energy style ages better.
I'd say that Pac has already slowed down to a point where this is not even a competitive fight anymore. 4 or 5 years ago it would have been a pick-em fight.

 

But at this moment, the fault of a fight not being made falls squarely on the shoulders of Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, who, in my view, simply doesn't want to make the match at a moment when there seems to be no legitimate impediment.

Bob Arum says Manny Pacquiao might not be healed from his November battle with Juan Manuel Marquez in time for a May date with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Arum doesn't want to match his cash cow, Pacquiao, with somebody he doesn't control, and he has no control over Mayweather. He once did, but that was years ago, before their nasty breakup.

Arum is also a smart boxing guy, as are his matchmakers, Brad "Abdul" Goodman and Bruce Trampler. They know Pacquiao would be the underdog, especially given how he looked in his controversial majority decision win in November against Juan Manuel Marquez, whom Mayweather thoroughly dominated when they fought in September 2009. Arum and his people know there is a strong possibility Pacquiao will lose if he ever fights Mayweather.

If Pacquiao did fight Mayweather and lose, he could certainly go on. But at this stage of his career, a loss might send Pacquiao deeper into politics in the Philippines, where he is already a congressman, and that would mean no more Pacquiao fights -- or at least only sporadic fights -- for Arum to make millions on.

It was just this week that Arum said he would go to the Philippines to meet with Pacquiao and present him with the names of four possible opponents for May or June: Miguel Cotto, Marquez, Lamont Peterson and Timothy Bradley Jr.

Arum figured Mayweather would be in jail and off the table. Now that Mayweather is available and seemingly would like to make the match, Arum suddenly isn't interested.

He used the lame excuse of the cut Pacquiao suffered against Marquez, saying he might not be ready for May. (I've never heard of a cut taking more than six months to heal.) However, earlier this week, when Arum thought Mayweather would be on ice behind bars, he said there was a good possibility Pacquiao would fight in May.

Moments after Mayweather was granted the continuance, Arum changed his tune.

"We're fighting in June, one of the four guys," Arum told me over the phone.

I asked him, now that Mayweather was available, would he at least be part of the conversation when Arum meets with Pacquiao next week?

A perturbed Arum's response was, "Absolutely not. Nope."

Come again? You won't even talk about it with Pacquiao, I asked very politely.

"My mission is to go over to the Philippines and talk about these four guys," Arum said. "If Manny feels he wants to go in May, he will tell me. I want to make sure Manny's cuts are healed. We won't fall under this kind of pressure. June is much more likely for Manny's fight, not May."

So May was a real possibility yesterday, but now there's no way?

"What if they fought and Manny started bleeding on the first punch?" a clearly flustered Arum said. "I don't know if Manny is available to fight in May. I have no idea. I haven't talked to him; I haven't seen him. Seems to me, June is more likely based on what his plastic surgeon said."

Arum threw out another "reason" (or excuse, as far as I'm concerned) not to try to make Pacquiao-Mayweather for May 5.

"I don't even know if Mayweather will be licensed [by the Nevada State Athletic Commission] before he serves his time," Arum said.

It would seem to me that if a judge would free Mayweather to make a megafight in Las Vegas, with the economic impact of the fight being a major reason for the decision, then the commission -- political appointees -- would understand what a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight would mean to the community.

 

It's an article from 2010 you idiots.

 

C'mon bro, that article is almost four years old.

 

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You Mayweather haters can't be this gullible and desparate that you are now rallying around fake articles, are you?

Go to dude's website and you'll see he has made up, 1st person letters from Sam Langford and John L. Sullivan. Matter of fact, he has an open letter (link here) from Angelo Dundee to Adrian Broner after AB's loss to Maidana. Only problem: Dundee died a 18 months BEFORE the fight took place.

But hey, don't let me interrupt your anti-PBF circle jerk with truth.

 

The *****s are desperate for any material

 

How many random blood test did Pac have done on his opponents before Rios even showed up on the picture?

Also how many slick fighters in their prime Pac fought?

 

Yes and that was 2010 Manny's Prime, the same time period you guys say he would of beat Mayweather, yet his Team wanted to delay a Mayweather fight for Manny's retirement party. The plan remains the same, this is why they sabotaged every previous negotiation. Even today Roach has indicated that Arum wants Floyd to be Pac's last fight.

 

2010 is Manny's Prime and as you can see they didn't want it with Mayweather

 

They've done this before bro lol! Ain't nothing new in ****** land

 

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Get off mannys **** *******.

 

Why say Mayweather won't wait another year or so when the article is about four years old? That's what I don't get. I agree that Arum doesn't want to make the fight until Pac is ready to retire but your article is misleading.

 

You posted a link to boxingnews24 where anyone can submit biased news, you ****ing moron. Not surprised to see this stupidity from a Floyd stan.