13 questions for and 13 answers from Floyd Mayweather.

This is Arum's latest interview. Unlike Ben Thompson, this interviewer asked Bob staight forward questions and didnt sugarcoat it by acting as if he knows the questions are bogus, but feel the need to ask them anyway since they are "other peoples" questions and not his.

Source: http://www.boxingtalk.com/pag/article.php?aid=21673

With Pacquiao-Mosley now behind us, the boxing world is eager to see what the pound-for-pound king’s next move will be. Boxingtalk spoke with Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum about a possible third fight with Juan Manuel Marquez, which is currently being negotiated. In this interview, Arum also discusses the possibility of a Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley fight, his plans for Kelly Pavlik, Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., Vanes Martirosyan, and more.

DL: Are there any thoughts you would like to share about the Pacquiao-Mosley fight?

BA: Just that I think it was a great promotion. The fight left something to be desired, because we thought Mosley would go out on his shield and fight to the end. And after he felt Manny’s power, he decided not to engage. But those things happen. It has nothing to do with his age or anything like that.

DL: You don’t believe it had anything to do with his age? A lot of people agree with you on that. But in my eyes, Shane has shown a lot of guts in his career. And in his last two fights, he looked as if he had been slipping -

BA: (cutting in) All of that is correct. But it doesn’t prevent somebody from engaging. That has nothing to do with age. Maybe he’s not as good a fighter as he was before. But you make a fight of it. You try to win. He would have been much better off trying to win and making a fight of it, even if he got knocked out. Look at what he did compared to what Margarito and Cotto did when they faced him. They made a fight out of it. They tried like sons-of-guns. They went out on their shield.

DL: Well then, the ultimate question is, what’s next for Manny Pacquiao?

BA: Well, we hope that it will be Juan Manuel Marquez. He’s accepted our offer and Golden Boy has until Monday afternoon to match the offer and we’ll see what happens.

DL: Is there anything new to be said about Floyd Mayweather, Jr. or is it the same old story?

BA: Same old story, same old story… I don’t know where the kid is coming from. He’s not behaving rationally. He doesn’t seem like he’s willing to fight anybody, let alone Manny Pacquiao.

DL: Have you considered any of these young lions at junior welterweight as a future opponent for Pacquiao? Timothy Bradley, if he comes out on top against Amir Khan?

BA: Oh, absolutely. On deck is Timothy Bradley. If for some reason we can’t make the Juan Manuel fight, then we’ll see what we can do about making the Bradley fight. Bradley’s a terrific young man and a great fighter.

 

I told you, Marquez isn't a tune-up.

Again as I told you, cowards exist in boxing. Scared fighters exists in boxing. :deal

 

Right. Thus, The Site That Hypes Fights (TSTHF) basically acts as a stenographer for Mayweather, just letting Floyd say whatever he wants, even if he might be lying, exaggerating or distorting. Instead of challenging what Floyd says, as a more credible media outlet might do. Take, for example, the whole "Hey, here's the contract I signed to fight Pac" roll-out in the recent PBF video spot.

This kind of treatment is why, in my opinion, TSTHF is regarded as Floyd's media mouthpiece on the web. Essentially, in my understanding, it is viewed as Floyd's propaganda outlet. Hence the constant interviews with Floyd and members of the Mayweather family, Floyd videos, etc.

There's a reason why TSTHF picked up Vivek Wallace. Or so one would think, based upon what some regard as Wallace's affinity for Floyd and possible dislike of Pacquiao.

If you know that a certain media outlet is going to take your side, so to speak, you keep going back to them. Why take real questions from a more thorough journalist if you can get friendly softballs pitched to you?

There's a reason why Floyd does everything with TSTHF. Just remember that when you digest what they're putting out.

 

he is obsessed with PAC

 

Dude, those questions were easy. Like I said, the reporter never mentioned anything involving the fact that Arum said, after the Mora fight, said that Mosley was a shot fighter and should probably not be fighting anymore.

If Mosley was shot after Mora, why put him in with Pac? Was this just part of an ongoing war he has with GBP? And if so, why is the career of the the p4p#1 fighter being used as a battlefront, when no one (and I mean no one) asked for the Mosley fight in the 1st place??

Why didn't he ask him anything about Manny taking OSDT with no cutoff date? And why, like I mentioned in my previous post, did he not ask him why all of a sudden JMM was a viable opponent, when Arum himself said he was not just 2 months or less prior?

Listen, you can't take fighthype to task for their Mayweather questions and not see that the media, at large, do the same thing to Team Pac and Arum. There was not one "tough" question this guy asked, these were easy ones, and anyone who can read can see that.

 

Pacquiao has destroyed Mayweather's legacy. Or rather, Mayweather has destroyed Mayweather's legacy by not facing Pacquiao when he had the chance. So, Floyd is like Captain Ahab trying to chase the Pacquiao White Whale. Except, in Floyd's instance, he doesn't actually appear to want to fight the White Whale. He just seems to want to try to make the world think he wanted to fight the White Whale, and the White Whale wouldn't fight.

My expectation is that you will see a continual stream of videos, interviews and check-ins between Floyd Mayweather (and the Mayweather family) and the Hypin' Fights site. This is, as far as I can tell, being done on purpose, to try to keep Mayweather's "side" of the story in the Google News search engine. Even if it's a completely bogus "side," and even if the level of 'journalism' being practiced by the Hypin' Fights site is a joke.

This is, in my opinion, about public relations, not anything else. Nothing will be learned, no fight is likely to be made for Mayweather, and few minds, if any, will be changed.

It's starting to appear as though Floyd will never fight again. And because of that possibility, he seems to be working extremely hard to try to get a possibly fake "ending" to the Pac story that he and the Hypin' Fights site seem to want to project. Even though such a story seems utterly fraudulent, and few if any people are buying what is being sold. This seems to be about damage control to Floyd's rep as he heads to potential retirement.

 

There's also an interview with Konz over at the Scene. Go check it out. No softball questions. They asked Konz some tough questions regarding his choice to fight Mosley and now thier choice to fight Marquez although the media and fans are not fond of the matchup.

Big difference from Ben's interview with Floyd.

 

I read that interview, and again, these were softball questions. And again, the constant changing of answers from interview to interview with Arum is NEVER ever addressed.

And let me ask you, personally, what you think of the examples I mentioned in the above post. Why is JMM all of a sudden viable and worth more than what was initially considered to be unreasonable financial demands, and why did Arum put a fighter that he called shot himself IN PRINT, in with the #1p4p fighter?

NO ONE is going to ask him those questions because of fear that Arum will cut off access to Pac and his other fighters, so I'm asking you. Why the constant waffling? Why put Pac in with a shot fighter? Why agree to financial demands that are MORE than what you recently deemed unreasonable?

 

Two totally different sites with totally different standards, IMO. One is professional, in my opinion, one less so. Guess which is which.

 

This interview isn't really a good look for Floyd to be honest. He hardly answers any questions adequately and some of them he outright avoids or denies the premises. For example, he most certainly did say "God doesn't want me to lose."

 

Softball questions? LOL. He flat out asked him why is he signing to fight JMM when its being heavily criticized and is recieiving negative publicity already.

He also asked him if people are just tuning in to see Pac and NOT who he's fighting no matter the quality of opponent. Basically saying, Pac can fight a shiit opponent and it wont matter because they're tuning in anyway.


If you consider these softball questions, then what do u consider Ben's interview of Floyd? :huh

 

Pacquiao gets the softest more pussiest interviews in the world. Compare his interviews to Mayweather's on ESPN

 

when asked direct questions about pac, how should he answer and not use pac's name?

if he just said no comment, the Ptards whould cliam it's porrf he is scared of pac...

if he replies to the question, then he is obsessed


some oddball ****

 

It is a softball interview, but what I'm saying is that this foolish double standard that people have needs to stop. People let Arum, Koncz, etc. say anything they want and never take them to task for it. And that fact that Koncz openly admitted to the fact that Pac can fight **** opponents and people still pay for it is just an opportunity to talk about how popular Pac is, which is what Koncz is supposed to do.

But again, the fact that Arum and Team Pac lie and change there answers CONSTANTLY is overlooked to the point of being ridiculous.

And you did not answer my questions about Team Pac's constant switching of answers and outright lies. What do you think of their constant contradictions, since you have such a problem with whatever answers Floyd provides?

 

They complain about him lying, but take Arum's word as Gospel. Now THAT's some oddball ****.