Do You Think Pacquiao Will Still Fight Floyd After The Rant & The Legal Issues?

I'm not so sure anymore.

That is, I'm beginning to think that Pacquiao may just walk away from the Floyd fight and not allow Mayweather to make a huge payday against him following the race-based Ustream rant and now the legal issues which Floyd is dealing with.

There are no more big fights for Floyd Mayweather except Manny Pacquiao. Berto? Couldn't even draw 1,000 paying customers, supposedly, in his last fight. Martinez? Set to rematch Paul Williams. Does anyone actually think a Floyd-Martinez fight would bring in the interest or money that Floyd wants to make?

Paul Williams? No chance, unless he looks like junk against Martinez in the rematch. Williams is one of the three reasons (Cotto and Margarito being the two other) that Floyd retired. Can't see that fight happening, ever, unless Paul just falls off dramatically in his ability.

Floyd Mayweather will be 34 years old in about 5 months. He's not getting any younger and he doesn't seem to have lost his taste for "living large." He needs money, always needs money.

So you figure Floyd would eventually have to fight Pacquiao, for the money, whether he wanted to fight him or not. But what if Pacquiao now decides to flip the script and walk away from Floyd, as Floyd did to him twice before?

After ducking Pacquiao twice, going off on the Ustream rant and now facing this latest legal mess, Pacquiao and his team may just decide to leave Money May hanging out to dry. Why give the other guy a payday and a chance to get his reputation back when he and his team have gone out of their way to smear you repeatedly to anyone who would listen.

Pacquiao is now a Congressman. He's the Pound-For-Pound king. He's got the high ground now after Mayweather's latest stunts.

As Manny said, he no longer needs Mayweather. If Pacquiao defeats Margarito, he will be an 8-division champion and likely climb even further in boxing historians' "All Time Greats" lists.

Manny walking away from an increasingly-desperate Mayweather could be the ultimate trump card, the ultimate payback.

We'll see if Team Pacquiao -- should they get past Margarito -- decides to pull it from the deck.

 

Imagine 24/7 with pac vs mayweather now.

Biggest fight ever just got bigger.

 

mayweather is doing time for this ****.by the time he gets out pac will have been retired already

 

I think a lot of it will be how vengeful Pacquiao is feeling towards Mayweather, provided he gets past Margo.

If Pac really wants to screw Mayweather, he'll just leave him hanging and without a huge payday.

We'll see.

 

you really are an idiot. whens the last time someone with money like Mayweather did time for something like this? no one even knows if he did anything. he'll get off

 

joyboy is going to jail :yep he already got a one year suspended jail sentence for beating a woman the cocklicker is going to jail

 

not a chance. mark my words

 

consider them marked

 

Won't change a thing other than standing his ground on a bigger share IMO.

 

Dinero makes the world go around for everyone. emmanuel is not an exception.

 

Good post, thanks! :good

Yeah, could see the Bradley/Alexander winner fight happening. Same with Cotto. Maybe Martinez.

 

I really don't see Pac walking away from this fight no matter what happens, unless of course Floyd goes to jail for X amount of time.

I think people forget that Pac has an ego himself and also likes the money. Who wouldn't at their level?

Not to mention that Pac always wants to bring the fight that the fans want to see.

Floyd really messed up these last couple weeks. Beforehand, I felt that Mayweather would have had a lot of leverage if Pac/Marg doesn't sell 1M+. Team Pac would have had to settle for 45/55 or maybe even 40/60. Now that the whole racism/assault blunders occured, I truly feel that the Pretty Boy has lost a lot of the bargaining power he had if they were to go into negotiations this winter or spring. If Floyd had only kept his mouth shut!

 

Yeah man, I can imagine. Problem is theres no fight.

 

It's not really a question on if PAC would still fight Floyd....it's will Floyd fight PAC. That's BEEN the question. And from the looks of things now Floyd is NOT going to fight Manny. He's got too much going on and I don't think he's too eager to jump in to a fight with Manny knowing the risk that is involved. MONEY won't even bring Floyd to the dance so compound that with all his negative press and legal issues this is a perfect way for Floyd to bow out of the fight and not have utter a word about not really wanting it with PACMAN.