The "All Things Mayweather/Pacquiao" Express!!!!!!

If Bob arum says I'm scared of needles then I'm scared of needles, and my cut won't heal in time either

 

:rofl:rofl

 

Right on que, when you die hard Floyd fans can't come up with a decent argument and instead of admitting you're wrong you use the "You don't know anything about boxing" line. If you actually look at the arguments, all you really need is logical reasoning, apparently you refuse to see it or maybe you just can't. It's all good, whatever floats your boat. Floyd can be your 3 comma joe, he's doing to you what that cat did to him. :shock::rofl

 

rofl

 

Hmm, so the real reason Floyd went back on his retirement was because he was stupid enough to get conned out of 15 million and got robbed of 8 million....

And all those other details. Floyd is one hell of a boxer but he has some serious personal issues. Borderline mental I would say.

What happens when he retires though? He seriously can't maintain that lifestyle if he can't make as much money as when he's fighting. He's gonna go broke really fast.

 

Lmao. If floyd is his own man, why did he say it depends on al haymon and ellerbe? Double standard?

 

bob arum clearly controls pac.

 

13 weeks left and floyd still ain't signing. Joyboys still defend floyd's stalling tactic.

 

jim lampley is saying mayweather is fighting cotto on may 2nd and sounded pretty damn sure thats the case I guess he knows whats up this fight behind the scenes has fallen apart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNeD5OAX2E

makes me sick

 

Showtime exec: Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao contracts not crafted yet

By LANCE PUGMIRE
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A deal apparently is in the eyes of the beholder.

By the standards of Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, a long-awaited super-fight between Pacquiao and unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. is but a signature away.

“We’re all done,” Arum told Fight Hub TV and others while in Colorado this week. “We’ve signed everything, agreed on all the terms. As far as we know, we’ve been told by the highest authority that Mayweather’s people have agreed, that the networks have agreed.

“But like they say, you can’t do a play about Hamlet without Hamlet, and Hamlet -- meaning Mayweather -- has not signed on.”

Not so fast, and not at all accurate, counters Showtime Executive Vice President Stephen Espinoza, who is negotiating alongside his superiors and HBO executives to craft a joint-broadcasting deal for what’s expected to be the most lucrative pay-per-view bout in history.

Showtime has two fights remaining in its agreement with Mayweather. Pacquiao fights for HBO.

“Arum has been saying a lot of inaccuracies,” Espinzoa told the Los Angeles Times in a telephone interview Saturday.

“Here’s where we are: There is no contract awaiting Floyd’s signature, and Bob Arum knows that. Floyd has represented to [CBS/Showtime Chairman] Leslie Moonves, to [his manager] Al Haymon and to me personally that he wants to make the fight, and we are making very good progress. But there are no contracts. There are open issues between Showtime and HBO that are being resolved.

“No one is waiting on Floyd, and for Bob Arum to say otherwise is a misrepresentation of the facts.

“Discussions are ongoing. We’ve made significant progress. And Floyd has given us clear directions to make the fight.”

In a conversation with The Times earlier this week, Arum said that while attorneys are ready to draft contracts, it would likely take into this coming week before anything can be presented to the fighters to sign.

With issues like splitting profits, the fight replay, handling on-air talent and other details as part of the challenge of handling a joint broadcast arrangement between rival premium networks that hasn’t been done since 2002 (Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson), Espinoza declined to reveal what deal points remain unfinished.

Pacquiao told The Times earlier this week that he wants an agreement struck by the end of January. On Friday, he visited in London with England’s Amir Khan to discuss what is clearly a backup option.

If the deal is close by Jan. 31, it’s believed Pacquiao will wait.

The fighters have already agreed on the purse split, a drug-testing plan, a May 2 date and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as the venue.

“We’re about halfway there,” Espinoza said of the television prong. “How long it takes to get to the finish line is anyone’s guess and I wouldn’t want to speculate.

“But we are making progress. We’re confident it’s going in the right direction.”

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sport...uiao-boxing-showtime-arum-20150124-story.html

 

Most people don't care about boxing (general public that is) but when that fight was touted, even people who didn't watch boxing wanted in. i saw a dozen Facebook statuses about it, and it was making headline news.

It felt big, but it just didn't happen....

1. Why were people, even non-boxing fans interested in it?

2. Could it have saved boxing popularity wise?

Because I think that people just want to see the best fighters fight each other.

 

if we are talking circa 2009 everyone wanted to see it because Pac was steam rolling fighters with his lightning offence and decent power, Floyd was winning fights showing great boxing skills and defence it was the bull vs the matador a classic match up on paper each of them polar opposites of the other in almost everyway

now its kinda just like ffs just give us the damn fight even though it will be something like 60% of a super fight that it could have been people want to see the build up to see them both go face to face once and for all but the fight is likely to be a blow out

 

I think most of us have expected no defining answer as to whether this fight will be taking place on May 2nd to be announced in till Superbowl weekend. We got a week to wait and hopefully by then, one way or another we have our answer, because this whole situation is becoming boring.

 

at the height of the hype both pac and floyd literally had the aura of invincibility about them. and it was the classic GREAT OFFENSIVE FIGHTER VS GREAT DEFENSIVE FIGHTER

 

I am thinking Margarito