Respected columnist Dan Rafael: Mayorga pulls out of fight over money

According to Rafael's blog, Mayorga didn't pull out of his fight with Angulo because of an injury. Apparently, he wasn't happy witht the money he was being paid and refused to fight unless he got more money. Here's an excerpt from the blog;

Angulo promoter Gary Shaw and HBO instead are searching for a new opponent and King doesn't seem all that upset by Mayorga's nonsense. He is resigned to it.

"This is typical of Mayorga," a calm King told ESPN.com. "He did the same thing with Oscar. He thinks he's playing a game. This is the way he operates. I just take it like it is. If he fights, he fights. If he don't, it ain't the end of the world. I know the beast I am dealing with."

The rumors swirling around Mayorga's pullout included a supposed rib injury in training as well as weight problems. But King made it clear that it was simply Mayorga demanding more money and thinking somebody would give in to him.

"I won't fall prey to it," said King, who said he has advanced Mayorga $300,000, which, of course, Mayorga will owe King, and King always gets his money.

Shaw, busy co-promoting Saturday night's Vic Darchinyan-Jorge Arce junior bantamweight championship fight in Anaheim, Calif., was ticked off my Mayorga's withdrawal but fielding calls from numerous folks offering potential replacements.

"Now we know why they call Mayorga 'The Matador,' he's full of bull----," Shaw said. "This is as unprofessional as it gets. We don't hear he's pulled out from his promoter or manager [Carl King], just from everyone else in boxing. You have to wonder if he ever intended to fight at all. Mayorga didn't show at the press conference in Florida and we have yet to see his mandatory 30-day weigh-in report from the WBC. Obviously, it wasn't a red cape he was waving, it was a red flag. But life goes on and we will make every effort to find a worthy opponent for Angulo to preserve his spot on the card and the HBO broadcast. "

Shaw had ideas of possibly getting Cornelius "K9" Bundrage or Alfonso Gomez. Kassim Ouma and Ishe Smith said they were interested. Then the focus turned to San Diego's Danny Perez, who was approved by HBO. However, that seems to have fallen through because of some sort of issue between Perez's manager and Shaw's matchmaker. Don't you just love the soap opera?