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

I think people forget Floyd was such a huge fan of Pacquiao's. It's one thing to bash over media, but face-to-face, they realize how great the other's talent are and they respect that. I think this was good for both. I think Floyd maybe tried to act hard at first, then when he saw how humble and respectful Pacquiao truly is in person, he kind of loosened up and realized this "rivalry relationship" is really more fueled by media. Not a single person who could hate Pacquiao. I think even Floyd realized once he met him in person, that he too can't even hate him.

 

unfunny

 

yea i like both fighters manny for his offence and gung ho approach and floyd for his skills I hope we see a really competitve fight and manny gets to floyd early knocks him down and floyd has to pull out his A game show he is a true champion to take the decision

if i had to guess tho i can see it being like JMM 3 fight with manny struggling to get his shots off and floyd doing minimal risk to eek out rounds

 

For this Sunday.

Super Bowl or Floyd's rumoured announcement?

 

Floyd Announcement

 

Go **** yourself you puke.

 

My team is not in the super bowl so... Floyd's announcement.

 

Try 4.5 lbs....

 

good point

 

floyd was in awe of manny pacquiao

 

Maybe... But eyeball test, it appears more than that.
Either way, it's not significant, as both are welters.

 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-boxing-mayweather-pacquiao-20150128-story.html

 

Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather working together to finalize fight

By LANCE PUGMIRE
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao’s unscheduled meeting at a Miami Heat game has triggered rapid movement toward the long-anticipated Super Bowl of boxing.

Pacquiao advisor Michael Koncz told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that the unbeaten Mayweather visited Pacquiao at his Miami hotel suite Tuesday night after the game, expressing his feelings on what can help finalize talks that are currently centered around how to broadcast the May 2 pay-per-view fight jointly on Showtime and HBO.

“Floyd was sincere,” Koncz said.

Koncz said as a result of that talk, he has received confirmation of an agreement between CBS/Showtime Chairman Leslie Moonves and HBO Chief Executive Richard Plepler that the fight will feature two broadcasters from each premium network.

HBO’s Jim Lampley and Max Kellerman and Showtime’s Mauro R****lo and Al Bernstein are the respective networks’ lead broadcasters and ****ysts, but Koncz declined to say which four would work the fight.

Koncz said each network also will produce an hour-long show on its fighter, Showtime doing a Mayweather story and HBO airing a Pacquiao special.

Showtime's “All-Access” series and HBO's “24/7” will not exist for this mega-bout, which is expected to generate a record number of pay-per-view buys, perhaps in excess of 3 million.

“With ‘24/7’ and ‘All-Access,’ I don’t believe either are necessary,” Koncz said. “This is not a normal boxing match, these two guys are superstars, as they showed just by meeting courtside at the basketball game.

“What more can you add to the fight? We don’t need those programs. So each network will do an hour special on their own fighter. That’s fair and reasonable.”

Mayweather and Pacquiao’s unexpected huddling only came about, Koncz said, because he couldn’t get two business-class airline tickets for Pacquiao and his wife, Jinkee, on a Tuesday flight out of Miami, where Pacquiao was as judge in Sunday's Miss Universe contest.

Opting to go to an NBA game between the Heat and Milwaukee Bucks, Pacquiao looked across the court to see Mayweather, who frequently attends Heat games and visits South Beach.

“Like Manny said, ‘It’s God’s will,’ ” Koncz said. “God put us together. It’s important, tremendous, for boxing for this to happen, this is the Super Bowl of boxing. We just showed up, and all these things transpired.”

While Mayweather initially scolded Pacquiao in a halftime meeting about misinformation about signed contracts coming from the side of Pacquiao and his promoter, Bob Arum, Mayweather gave Pacquiao his cellphone number and they set up the post-game meeting.

“Everyone left on good terms,” Koncz said of the meeting inside the suite. “Floyd’s very personable, very cordial.”

“Floyd pledged to get it done and get everyone on the same page,” Showtime Executive Vice President Stephen Espinoza said. “It was, ‘Hey, there’s still some open issues, let’s get on the same page.’ Floyd’s in the loop on the bigger issues.

“They had a friendly, positive discussion. … It remains to be seen whether it was productive.

“The real measure of that is if can we come to an agreement.”

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-boxing-mayweather-pacquiao-20150128-story.html

Boom :happy

 

no 24/7 and all access?

 

Superbowl, Floyd is almost always a letdown. Unless he actually fights Pacquiao, well, that's different!