Manny has ran out of legitimate opponents. It's not his fault that he's fighting mosley next. People forget that he legitimately stayed in this division after fighting Cotto. If manny gets past mosley, mayweather is cornered that's for sure. 1. Pac 2. Mayweather 3. Mosley 4. Cotto 5. Margarito 6. Berto 7. Alvarez 8. Cintron/Quintana 9. Clottey 10. ????
The Mosley fight is very disapointing...Manny should fight Berto instead of eating leftovers from Floyd's plate. And Floyd should stop beating up women and civilians and just fight Manny for Christ's sake.
I would have much, much rather seen Pac vs Marquez 3. If Marquez asked for 50-50, it's his own fault he didn't get this fight.
I'm not interested by Pac vs JMM III. JMM was a much much better fighter at 126 and 130 than he'll ever be at 140 or 147. If JMM beats a top contender at 140 or 147, then yea, bring it on. But I don't think he could beat Bradley, Khan, Berto.
Mosley is not the most legit opponent out there. If he wants to clean up at 147 then he should have gone for Berto.
Who is there really to fight though? I'm not saying this is a particularly good match-up, but if Mayweather won't fight him, it might just be the best available at this moment in time. He's already beaten Cotto comprehensively and he's now fighting at 154, no real need for a rematch. Alvarez isn't going to be thrown to the lions against Pacquiao by Golden Boy yet. Cintron is a pointless match-up and would probably be at 154 aswell. Unifying at 147 with Zaveck or Senchenko is obviously pointless, no interest in those match-ups whatsoever. The Berto fight is the only other one that makes sense, and given the flaws he's shown and the fact he's not a massive name, it doesn't make any more sense than Mosley at the moment. Marquez would be a pointless match-up aswell, we've seen how sluggish he looks at 147, why put him in with Pacquiao again? I'd rather not see it, he'd cop a beating, perhaps get brutally knocked out Hatton style and he'd struggle to rebuild. Obviously Bradley and Alexander are unavailable aswell, Martinez is at this point a combination of too big & too skilled [not more skilled than Manny or better obviously, but far more than Margarito and there comes a time when the size + the not-so-big gap in overall ability is canceled out and it's too dangerous a match-up. There's really not that many other fights out there for him at this point if Mayweather refuses to fight him.
Fight Berto, and if the Mayweather doesnt get made, he could fight the winner of Bradley-Alexander. Pretty simple really.
I seriously doubt JMM would of asked for a 50-50. And even if he didnt asked for that much money, im pretty damn sure Arum would turn it down anyway and come up with some bull**** excuse.
Why? :huh You seriously, seriously think a welterweight/lightmiddleweight Pacquiao fears a lightweight Marquez? I see you've started your Christmas sherry early this year.
I think he's implying that Arum had his sights set on Mosley, and Mosley only...even when he had said Berto and Marquez where possible bouts also.