The official Mayweather vs. Pacquiao aftermath trash receptacle

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by IntentionalButt, Mar 20, 2013.


  1. mancat

    mancat Boxing Addict Full Member

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    ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!


    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahasahahahaha!!!!!!hhhhahahahahahahahahahahaha:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl
     
  2. dublynflya

    dublynflya Stand your ground Son!! Full Member

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    Fair points and the "Uncle Bob" angle is worthy of consideration.

    But that still doesn't mean that those who paid for it aren't entitled to be somewhat aggrieved at these latest claims (for the record I paid £19.95, stayed up and watched it live and believe that the best man won. And this injury claim is all sh!te, being told to con us into buying the rematch.. So I am happy that I got my moneys worth).
     
  3. jim jim

    jim jim Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    gatti did fight for the fans, made it exciting when he didnt have too
     
  4. YearZero

    YearZero Boxing Addict Full Member

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    HAH! Only a true ***** can look at the 4th and say what you are saying. You're crazy man.
     
  5. this_and_that

    this_and_that Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I paid around 53+USD too for 3 of us so believe me when I say that I echo your sentiments.
    But business is business for the likes of Bob.
    I'm sure as hell not buying any Pacquiao nor FMJ fights anymore.
     
  6. VBOX

    VBOX JOURNEYMAN Full Member

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    Marquez came to fight.
     
  7. Mr_Harry

    Mr_Harry Guest

    mayweather landed this hard uppercut forgot what round and it never even had a effect not bad for a figher who has had his chin cracked
     
  8. weegriffin

    weegriffin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If Mayweather punches had no power why was Pac hesitate to throw and take risk?

    Have you watched the full fight yet?
     
  9. tennis

    tennis Boxing Addict Full Member

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    An injured shoulder would explain why he could flurry enough tho

    A rematch at half the price with a fully fit PAC makes sense
     
  10. keenly

    keenly Active Member Full Member

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    If he would of had the pain killing shot as agreed, the fight would of been different. Floyd does this with his hands.
     
  11. pirate69

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    I always expected a floyd victory but was genuinely shocked by how easily he did it.
     
  12. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    1. Algieri is bigger than Floyd.
    2. Pac wasn't diminished when he fought Algieri but 6 months later he is?

    Haha
     
  13. markq

    markq Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think a class action lawsuit could be made against Top Rank if this is true. There are all kinds of lawyers waiting to make money on something like this. Everything went wrong for Pac and Top Rank:

    1) Manny gets completely outclassed
    2) Floyd somehow was perceived as the humble one pre and post fight
    3) Manny acts like a complete sore loser after the fight
    4) Manny fans showing their true colors on social media
    5) Top Rank setting themselves up for a class action lawsuit
     
  14. Mr_Harry

    Mr_Harry Guest

    The morning after the fight here became yuck-it-up time. The legendary P.T. Barnum line seemed a perfect fit: There is a sucker born every minute.
    Included in those suckers were the 16,507 who filled the MGM Grand Garden Arena, generating a paid gate of $74 million, all to watch Floyd Mayweather Jr. outbox Manny Pacquiao in a fight about as compelling as the 405 Freeway at 8 a.m. Also right there in Barnum's pocket were the millions who paid $100 to watch on TV, and the media hordes that encouraged them to do so.
    This was billed the Fight of the Century. As the Wall Street Journal so aptly put it, it's good that we have 85 years left to top it.
    There was a serious and significant side to what took place Saturday night.

    Indeed, on a night that might have saved the sport, or at least improved its brand, it was only further damaged. That was not for the obvious reason of delivering a predictable and boring fight, but for the missed opportunity it presented.
    More than an hour after the fight, when most sane people were asleep, Pacquiao's team revealed, at the post-fight news conference, that their boxer had fought with a right shoulder injury.
    The muscle tear reportedly occurred in early April, during a training session in the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles, owned by Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach. The fighter's sessions had been closed to the media and all but a handful of team members.


    Roach said the injury appeared to be healing. But at one point during training, he had Pacquiao working only on left-hand-punching drills.
    Pacquiao said in the news conference that he reinjured the shoulder early in the fight and was not as effective after that.
    The situation got even more complicated as the news conference continued. It became a game of who knew and when did they know it.
    Bob Arum, Top Rank Boxing's chief executive and Pacquiao's promoter, said they had sent a request for Pacquiao to be injected with painkillers for the fight. That injection would be a ****tail of three drugs, none banned, which included lidocaine. Arum said the request was sent to the Nevada State Boxing Commission a week ago

    Saturday night at 6:08 p.m., three hours before the fight, Top Rank's Bruce Trampler approached the commission to ask that the injection be done. The commission said no.
    So Pacquiao went out, reinjured the arm, and much of the post-fight news conference furthered the impression that he fought mostly one-armed. It also included the impression that, somehow, the Nevada commission had done him wrong.
    That impression was quickly clouded further when, as the news conference was ending and reporters filing out, commission Chairman Francisco Aguilar took the microphone to say his commission knew nothing of any injury to Pacquiao until Trampler's request. He said had they known in a timely matter, they would have ordered an MRI to confirm the injury and allowed the injection

    All of this raises the $64,000 question, or in the case of this fight, some $640-million questions:
    • Why didn't boxing postpone the fight?
    Why didn't they bite the bullet, face the inevitable skepticism, and do the right thing?
    Why did they take such a huge chance, knowing that an injury such as this would reduce Pacquiao's chances against Mayweather to near zero and further turn off a generation of fans?
    Those who paid dearly to see this were already feeling their pockets picked by the yawner fight they got. Now they are told they had paid for a yawner involving damaged goods. For most, going forward, the response will be: Fool me once... but….

    All this, remember, came on a night that began with several cable companies carrying the fight pay-per-view locked up near fight time with the rush for late orders. The Twitter world was filled with pictures of blank TV screens, sent by people who had already paid their $100.
    Arum was questioned about the ethics of putting an injured boxer out there, and he said, "All athletes play with injuries."
    He didn't mention that when there are millions of people not only watching, but wagering on these athletes, full disclosure is essential. That's what the NFL's weekly injury report is all about.
    In misfortune, there is often opportunity. Boxing had a chance to do the opposite of what it did. Instead of spoiling its brand, it could have enhanced it.

    It needed to announce a postponement with a clear and constant message — along with refunds — that the sport needed to do what was right, that it would not sell a pig in a poke.
    Eventually, the public anger and sarcasm would have subsided, and boxing might still have a future. Doing the right thing is always powerful, in life and in sports.
    Boxing blew it. Its dream turned to disaster.
    Arum was about to be pressed more on this ethical issue when the champion arrived and took over the news conference stage.
    Soon, Mayweather, who has nicknamed himself "Money," was talking about his private jet and showing reporters the $100-million check he received after the fight.
    The sport of boxing, as it currently exists, was on display.

    http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-mayweather-pacquiao-dwyre-20150504-column.html
     
  15. mancat

    mancat Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Steroids? PEDs?

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