Maywaether Pacquiao timeline?!?

No...There was 0 tolerance for drug testing cutoff as Floyd advised Manny the 14 day window would be offered one time.

Koncz went on record (see 24/7 Margarito Manny) as saying they agreed to a 7 day cutoff.

Floyd bounced out the 2nd negotiations as soon as he got in because he advised Team Pacquiao the cutoff was non negotiable.

Team Pacquiao did not budge off 7 days thus there was no reason to stay in negotiations.

Sure, he may have let Richard find out what they were looking for etc etc...but if there is 0 tolerance for the cutoff and you tell me that you will only go to 7 days the first minute that I'm there, than I am not negotiating as zero tolerance means "ZERO TOLERANCE."

Do your hw bro. Don't come up on here pretending you know what your talking about.

 

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To those who say its bias, there are numerous sources listed.

 

Fast forward to Nov 2011..

Floyd calls out Manny Pacquiao the week of the Marquez 3 fight.

Arum says Floyd will shut up by the following week and he is "just trying to steal Manny's shine."

The following week Floyd is still calling Manny out for a May 5th date. There goes Arum's statement that he would shut up and is only trying to steal shine. If Arum was right, then Floyd would have turned quiet, but he didn't.

 

New developments

Just when it looked like the most lucrative fight ever would never take place because of greed, egotism, selfishness and (for lack of a better term) cowardice on both sides, there was an unexpected twist. A Las Vegas judge agreed to delay Mayweather’s short 90-day jail sentence to 1 June 2012, allowing Mayweather to commit to his pre-scheduled 5 May 2012 fight date at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Interestingly, Mayweather’s camp initially announced the 5 May 2012 fight date on 2 November 2011, less than a week after Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, claimed that the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would “never, ever” happen because of Mayweather. At the time Mayweather announced the date, they were without an opponent (a strange thing in itself), but they did proclaim that they were after the biggest fight possible, and that was with “the little fella”. It could not have been more clear that they were finally and officially calling out Pacquiao, who was coming off an unimpressive victory over Shane Mosley and was about to head into his third war with Juan Manuel Marquez 10 days later .

After Pacquiao narrowly escaped with a controversial majority decision win against Marquez on 12 November 2011 (which many thought he lost), the stage was set for the two to finally make the fight happen. But then Mayweather was sentenced to jail (6 months, 3 months suspended), essentially derailing the fight once again.

Arum ducking and dodging

Following the handing down of Mayweather’s sentence on 21 December 2011, Bob Arum declared that he was going to the Philippines to present to Pacquiao four options for his next fight, none of which included Mayweather because he was going to be unavailable. The options were: Miguel Cotto, whom Pacquiao had already knocked out, Juan Manuel Marquez, whom Pacquiao had already fought three times, and Lamont Peterson and Timothy Bradley, two young but relatively unknown opponents.

None of the four were even remotely as appealing as a Mayweather bout, but Arum enjoyed using Mayweather’s jail sentence to justify that he had no other alternative. More importantly for the greedy 80-year-old, it meant he could milk his cash cow Pacquiao for longer, as a loss to Mayweather would clearly diminish Pacquiao’s value or even send him into permanent retirement.

What Arum didn’t expect was the judge to delay the sentence and allow Mayweather to fight on 5 May 2012, and for Mayweather to then expressly call out Pacquiao on Twitter.

“Manny Pacquiao I’m calling you out let’s fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see,” Mayweather tweeted, followed by, “My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.”

The temporary reprieve for Mayweather must have caught Arum off-guard, because he was obviously flustered and began contradicting himself as to why Pacquiao could not fight Mayweather on May 5. When Mayweather became unavailable, Arum was happy to suggest 5 May 2012 (which is Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo) as a possible fight date for Pacquiao’s next fight, especially if was going to be a fourth bout with the Mexican Marquez. When Mayweather suddenly became available, May 5 was suddenly “out of the question.”

“June 9 is perfect,” Arum told The Times from The Philippines. “May 5 is out, that’s impossible.”

To make the excuse less pathetic, Arum said he would be willing to chip in for lawyer fees to try and postpone Mayweather’s jail sentence until after 9 June 2012, but everyone could see through it.

Other lame justifications Arum proffered included the cut Pacquiao suffered against Marquez (even though it would be completely healed by May) and the fact that Mayweather would need to be re-licensed to fight again in Nevada (even though there is ZERO chance of that not happening).

Arum basically shot the whole thing down: “We’re fighting in June, one of the four guys,” he said to ESPN. ”My mission is to go over to the Philippines and talk about these four guys. If Manny feels he wants to go in May, he will tell me. I want to make sure Manny’s cuts are healed. We won’t fall under this kind of pressure. June is much more likely for Manny’s fight, not May.”

When pressure persisted, Arum came up with alternative “reasons” for why 5 May would not work. This time, it was because the date made no “economic sense”. According to Arum and Pacquiao advisor Michael Koncz, the MGM Grand’s 17,000-seat capacity was too small and that they ought to wait until a 45,000-seat outdoor stadium in Vegas is completed in late May to host the fight. This larger arena would fetch an estimated additional $30 million.

For whatever reason, reports later surfaced that Arum was no longer pushing the new arena “reason” and was willing to stage the fight at the MGM Grand, but he still wanted a date in late May as opposed to Mayweather’s scheduled May 5 date.

He also added a new potential excuse: Mayweather will need someone to guarantee his fight purse (as Golden Boy Promotions isn’t going to do it), something which he will do for Pacquiao. It’s not really something he needs to be concerned with as this will need to be worked out from Mayweather’s side.

 

Manny Pacquiao speaks out

Manny Pacquiao, for his part, has received a lot of flak from critics and fans alike for “hiding behind his promoter”. In the past, Pacquiao simply said that he left the matchmaking up to his promoter (Arum), and that it was his job to fight whoever they put in front of him. That stance is no longer working, because at the end of the day, Arum works for Pacquiao, and if Pacquiao wants to fight Mayweather, all he has to do is tell Arum to make it happen no matter what.

Initially, Pacquiao’s camp was defiant, posting this statement on the Examiner.com: ”We don’t take MAYWEATHER’S tweet seriously, and are always ready to fight the undefeated AMERICAN anytime. Sign the contract, sign a statement. If you really want the fight, we say yes.”

Later, perhaps due to mounting pressure, Pacquaio has become more vocal, telling Filipino news outlets that Mayweather is definitely the one he wants. “I’ve said this over and over before and I’m saying this again, I want Floyd Mayweather Jr to be my next opponent and I haven’t changed my choice despite recent developments,” he said to PhilBoxing. “I am meeting with my promoter, Bob Arum on Tuesday and I will insist that the fight with Mayweather be given the preference than the four others in the list I will fight next.”

Pacquiao also added: “I will abide by his [Mayweather’s] demand for drug testing. I am even agreeable to get lesser purse just so the fight would push through. In other words, as far as my side is concerned, there will be no problem.”

Perhaps Pacquiao spoke too soon, because shortly after he backed off the “lesser purse” comment. In a later interview with ABS-CBN news, Pacquiao said: “To all my fans, we are still waiting for Mayweather to say ‘yes’ to a 50 percent split of the revenue and the fight is on. He should be the one to say ‘yes’ because he has so many representatives. If he accepts it, he will make $50-60 million.”

However, it was also reported that if Mayweather does NOT accept a 50-50 split, then the fight will not pull through and Pacquiao will fight one of the four pre-named opponents.

 

Not long after Pacquiao announced his next fight against Marquez, Mayweather made a comeback statement: he was going to take on young lion Victor Ortiz. Many people applauded the decision — Ortiz was a dangerous opponent, young and strong and a southpaw, meaning he could be viewed upon as a Pacquiao tune-up. At the time, Ortiz was certainly considered a more dangerous opponent than either Mosley or Marquez.

And then, Mayweather dominated and KO’ed Ortiz, while Pacquiao put in another disappointing performance against Marquez, an opponent most thought he would steam-roll the third time around as catch-weight welterweights. The fact that Pacquiao got a majority decision when many thought he lost only added more fuel to the Pacquiao hate-wagon. The defiant “*******s”, who defend Pacquiao no matter how unreasonably, only made things worse for the Filipino congressman’s reputation.

Pacquiao had been at the top for too long and people were starting to wonder whether he still deserved it. While Mayweather was tackling dangerous foes, Pacquiao was still allowing greedy Arum to dictate his every move and forcing the public to endure his crappy fights against unworthy opponents. It is no wonder why several news organisations replaced Pacquiao with Mayweather as the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world, a position Pacquiao had held ever since his impressive victory over De la Hoya.

 

Incorrect information given here.:deal

 

Figures *******s would stay out of this.

 

timeline: january 2012

floyd called pac to ask him, "what if i lose?"

 

The fight should have happened in 2009 but Mayweather ducked him thinking he could get beat and Manny was cheating. Since then it has been ****, and as of now it does not even matter anymore. Neither are good as they were then, especially Manny.

 

atsch Yet we have more incorrect info.

*******s please provide valid sources and info. Don't just troll.

dodo you now cutoff because you can't post correct info.

 

2009??atsch And again your information is incorrect.:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

it's already been settled, floyd jr. ducked.

what you're arguing now are just punctuation marks to a story.

 

**** timelines! all i need is the fact that money called dapidroid directly and talked to him.

 

How did Mayweather duck, when he offered a compromise, which Pac rejected? Especially since It was supposedly acceptable just a few months later. Please LOGICALLY tell me how you can call this a FMJ duck.