Arum always preferred Pacquiao-Clottey over Pacquiao-Floyd - but I can live with it

The weekend after Mexican Independence Day is usually a fight weekend. That's a logicl guess for September. It is probably the big date in the Fall (when they say they are willing to revisit neogtiations) and September was mentioned before for this fight, prior to the date being dragged forward to March.

 

margarito would kill him

 

Correct.

He means from an action crowd pleasing standpoint.:bbb

 

the reason this fight didn't happen is because pac didn't want to take the blood test, no not even 15 days before. anyway im happy for clottey, i hope he headbutts his way to a win. all i know is fighters are going to want to join top rank if it means they get big fights and at the moment thats what they are getting. if GBP had pac and clottey do you think they would have let them get together?

 

BigBone, I'm breaking my vow of silence to congratulate you on an outstanding post!

Finally, someone with some sense to see through all the BS....

 

I completly agree. The only one to win from this fight not happening could be Arum. Everyone else would be a winner, so its logical they wanted fight to happen. Arum wont split money when 2 of his fighters fight and there is also Margarito on the undercard so he could be fed to PAC later making it another big TopRank fighters fight. In those 2 fights he would probably make more money than FMJ vs PAC (im sure he calculates, and knows numbers better than us). IMHO PAC wins both of those matchups so after floyd fights Mattew Hatton and lets say Koki Kameda the MegaFight still could be made Also there might be some revenge to floyd factor... Thats only explanation i can think of why fight didn't go through...
On the other hand floyd agreeing to everything, but being ridiciously stubborn on drug testing case is really suspicious... Its kinda looks like he didnt want to fight and used this excuse to pull out of the fight, and at the same time make PAC look bad... Kinda Mayweather style, but i dont know why would he do that.

 

you make a lot of sense man, and you could probably be right. Great thread it kept me thinking, and props to you for putting in the pieces together. Very possible arum is pulling in all the strings, and he's working together with koncz, jacal and other members inside pac's team. Can't blame pac for being a puppet though he's not exactly a smart person, didn't even finish 5th grade i think.

Floyd was doing him a favor telling pac before to be his own boss but pac is not that kind of person especially with all the leeches around him being nice and friendly towards him

 

Half? You are being generous. This is more like a quarter. It doesn't make any sense. Unless...

 

How can you stand behind this? FMJ did go 50/50 on everything. Team Pac killed this.

 

Don't know OP makes some good points, hard to argue this shiat.

 

Yeah I forgot he pulled out of a fight recently. I dont even remember him giving a reason whether it be injury or nothing else. It was the ****ing plan all along. Arum was pissed off that Floyd did not want to fight in Dallas and if you notice .... lol after that thats when Pac and everybody had issue with the steroid testing etc. Even though the ****ing testing was in the initial contract for the fight. But in the same token it makes Pac look innocent of the roids b/c Arum is the one that killed it more so than him. Just used him as a scapegoat. You have to think like a little devious mother****er to figure this **** out.

 

I do think Arum wants Floyd/PAc fight ALOT better than Clottey. As most say, percentage-wise it's bigger, but he pockets lesser to Clottey/Pac than Floyd/Pac.

My conspiracy theory here is, he designed a paradigm already the moment he saw that dealing with Floyd in the mix is "hopeless".

That's why he is trying to revive Margo's career and on the side working out Cotto/Foreman fight. So that the next few fights is an option with these fighters in his stable: Pac, Cotto, Clottey, Margo, Foreman, then threw in few outsider fighters namely Mosley, Bradley and Berto. That way, he wouldn't need a Floyd to create profitable fights.