Firm date for Pacquiao-Mayweather fight?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by cuco10701, Jun 29, 2010.


  1. cuco10701

    cuco10701 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    By Rick Chandler

    According to this tweet from TV.com sports reporter Molly E. Sullivan, the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight of myth and legend is suddenly becoming real; all set for late November in Las Vegas. Sullivan:

    Lunch update from my #1 source in Vegas: Pacquio/Mayweather IS happening late Nov... Steve Wynn is building an outdoor venue just for fight.

    Remember the days when news like this was reported by TV sports anchors with enormous hair?

    Anyway, this fight appears to be on. Who ya got?

    When last we left this fun couple, Mayweather's people were accusing Pacquiao of using steroids, and the Pacquiao camp was threatening to sue Mayweather for defamation. The two couldn't agree on when and where to conduct pre-fight and after-fight drug testing, and things devolved into both fighters calling each other poo-poo heads.

    Since then (around Christmas time of last year), Pacquiao was elected to the Philippines House of Representatives, and then defeated Joshua Clottey for the IBF World Welterweight title. And Mayweather beat Shane Mosley for the WBA World Welterweight title.

    The telling numbers were these: Pacquiao got only 700,000 pay per view buys for his fight with Clottey, a relatively small number for a fighter of his stature. Mayweather-Mosely got 1.4 million. So perhaps now Manny is willing to be a little more flexible with the drug testing demands? Maybe.
     
  2. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    I am not gettin my hopes until a press conference.
     
  3. Don Q

    Don Q Active Member Full Member

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    Wow... and still *******s want 50/50 split :-(
     
  4. shan7-8-6

    shan7-8-6 Active Member Full Member

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    agreed...defo guna be waitin for the press conference before i get all excited....
     
  5. les

    les boxerman Full Member

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    take the ****ing test manny
     
  6. 12Tones

    12Tones New Member Full Member

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    Pac beat clottey then got elected. If floyd had have whooped him he wouldnt have won the seat.:verysad
     
  7. roversbowers

    roversbowers Well-Known Member Full Member

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    im not gonna get excited till michael buffer says "lets get ready to rumble" then im gonna **** my pants.
     
  8. brickfists

    brickfists The Nonpareil Full Member

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    its not gonna happen
     
  9. Atlanta

    Atlanta Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yahoo! Sports or Bust.
     
  10. Skilletscuz

    Skilletscuz mma champ Ronda Rousey Full Member

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    -3 points for Over-exuberance

    +10 points for being that intense about PacWeather
     
  11. Skilletscuz

    Skilletscuz mma champ Ronda Rousey Full Member

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    ughh, read the original article off of Crax's link

    nothing seriously definitive and bigtime talk & speculation done by Arum.... boy, that guy loves the spotlight!