Too much time wasted for Floyd

How many thousands of words have been wasted on articles and columns asking what Floyd Mayweather really thinks about getting it on with Manny Pacquiao?

1. So let’s look at what Mayweather actually does. Simple. He does not fight Manny Pacquiao. He’s the Road Runner to Pacquiao. In fact, Mayweather may be the only prizefighter in eight or nine weight divisions who won’t get in the ring with the guy for forty or fifty million dollars.

2. Floyd has danced away from Pac Man so long he may never find his way back. "Money” has no regard for the size of his purses. He doesn’t prize it highly enough to get into the ring with the one man he fears above all others.

3. Lately Mayweather has been negotiating out in the open for the fight he won’t fight, which is what people do when they don’t want to negotiate. Take a flat forty million or leave it, he tells Pac Man with disdain. He’s quite aware that it’s laughable to think either of them would give up a percentage share of the pay-per-view receipts.

4. For a good long time Mayweather was even able to create a steroids scandal where there was none. And when Pac Man agreed to his blood demands, Floyd turned vampire, kept demanding more blood. Ultimately a “source,” obviously someone deep inside Mayweather’s camp, told Teddy Atlas there was email from Pacquiao’s people basically conceding that their man was on the juice. Atlas ran right up to an ESPN camera crew and reported this preposterous story. Even more amazing, Atlas apparently never asked to see the email. He also never wondered why Mayweather’s people, if they had this smoking gun in their possession, didn’t show it to everybody. Luckily, Atlas has gotten himself off from Pacquiao's slander suit.