A Rough Week for Mayweather, Branded Coward by Arum,
Fight with Pacman Dead, Has a Confrontation with Rick Ross.
Will This Help Mosley Get Pacquiao ?
By: Bill Ethan In a week that ended the mega fight between “Money” Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao being shelved and Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum branding Mayweather a coward stating Mayweather is “a psychological coward who doesn’t want to fight anybody who has a chance of beating him.”
After Mayweather refused to accept Pacquiao’s compromise agreeing to Mayweather imposed Olympic drug testing after the first press conference, during training and immediately after the fight. The differences between camps went to mediation under Judge Daniel Weinstein.
After mediation talks fell apart Bob Arum, Pacquiao’s promoter, blamed Mayweather. “Floyd Mayweather walked away,” Arum said. “Our guy was agreeable, Mayweather wasn’t. The fight’s off. I always felt he wasn’t going to do the fight. He knows Manny will beat him.
“Mayweather’s never stepped into the ring with a guy he had any question but that he was going to beat. That’s why there’s never been a Mosley, never Margarito, never was a Cotto and there’s no Pacquiao.
Both fighters interchangeable on most boxing scholars top ten at 1 and 2 potentially could have given the laboring sport the biggest fight in history except the two champions were scheduled to meet in the richest and highest profiled fight in history on March 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The fight was negotiated until whether doubt, a psych ploy or just looking for a way out Floyd Mayweather Sr.’s claims that Pacquiao is using illegal substances and Floyd Jr.’s demand for Olympic style random blood testing led to a dramatic possibly staged split causing a defamation lawsuit to be filed by from Pacquiao against Team and his representatives.
One thought is that Mayweather could be putting off the bout until Pacquiao who is running for Congress in the Philippines this Maycould serve “Pretty Boy” well with Pacquiao being distracted.
“Pacman” will probably move forward with an interim figth that could serve him well taking on is Yuri Foreman for his WBA light middleweight title giving Pacquiao an unprecedented shot at a title in an eighth weight division.
Mayweather or even Pacquiao may lay and wait for the winner of January 30th’s welterweight showdown between “Sugar” Shane Mosley and Andre Berto with the winnner holding both the WBA and WBC belts.
Mayweather keeping the fight on the front pages publicly said “he would love to kick Pacquiao’s “punk ass” but he is holding firm on moving the time of the last blood test closer to the fight.
Mayweather is starting to remind me of the spoiled kid on the playground taking his ball home and ending the game unless everyone plays by his rules. Keeping that in mind Mayweather who had a verbal near physical confrontation with Rick Ross at P Diddy party last weekend might be an example that Mayweather out on the town had no real intentions of taking on the “Pacman.”
It was considered by many that Manny Pacquiao would take a shot at another weight class and take on Yuri Foreman for the WBA light middleweight title but rumors are in the air it will be a Manny Pacquiao / Joshua Clottey fight that still needs to be finalized to Cowboys Stadium, March 13.
Rumors are Mayweather wants Rick Ros as an replacement for Pacquiao if he will wear bigger gloves, agree to a 24 foot ring and take Olympic drug testing. Or Mayweather can take his posse and Diddy in the ring with him. Maybe stop fighting and just rap if no one else wants to move up. Oh yeah there’s still Mosley.Don’t count on it. Ha Ha! The drama, the Hype and dodging continues.
Pacquiao should take the tests he agreed to in negotiations with Mayweather for his next fight, potential with Joshua Clottey. A win like this would kill two birds with one stone assuming he goes on to victory in a fight that isn’t a given. Then take a final stand give Mayweather an ultimatum and move on.
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When the Cream Rises to the Top it will Be Pacquiao, Mosley, Mayweather but Not Necessarily in That Order!
By: Jason Sardelis
Let’s get this out of the way from the start I have always been a “Sugar” Shane Mosley fan but before that because of my father and his background in boxing I have always been more importantly a boxing fan. I feel right now the man that would most likely beat Pacquiao or Mayweather would be Mosley. Not because I’m a fan or I think the moons will line up but because match-ups make fights.
Mosley is just as fast or faster Mayweather he is taller with a laonger reach and is the clear heavier puncher.
Mosley would control most of the fight and the famous Mayweather shoulder roll would be exposed.
Mosley / Pacquiao fight would probably be the tougher of the two with Mosley using his size to be the deciding factor. Mosley can take a shot and this could discourage the Filipino flash. Mosley would do within the rules what Mayweather has tried to negotiate and had failed come in the bigger stronger man. Mosley can absorb punishment and will adapt something other than Marquez at a much lighter weight could do.
Assuming Mosley gets past an eager Berto it’s all wide open. Pacquiao should he beat Mayweather will give Mosley his chance. Should Mayweather win he will make Mosley wait, then negotiate a year or two before he would even think about taking on his destiny nemesis. Fate has a way of working things out look for Mosley on top.
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The Mayweather / Pacquiao Pre Fight Negotiations
Beginning to Resemble the Health Care Bill!
December 22nd Golden Boy Promotions has issued a statement announcing that the mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is allegedly in trouble because Pacquiao is refusing to comply with Olympic style drug testing demanded by Mayweather.
Rumors are that Top Rank President Todd DuBoef notified Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions who is handling Mayweather’s camp that Pacquiao would not agree to have his blood drawn thirty days before the bout as he has difficulty with taking blood and doesn’t want to do it so close to the fight. In all fairness Pacquiao has agreed to have his blood drawn before the opening press conference and immediately after the fight.
Manny Pacquiao has began his turn in the negotiations chess game with Floyd Mayweather for their mega fight March 13th demanding a penalty of $10 million per pound or a fraction of over the agreed 147 lbs weight limit that would apply to both fighters during the weigh in.
This move is prompted by a list of demands by Team Mayweather regarding weight limits, glove and ring size while keeping in mind that against Juan Manuel Marquez last September, Mayweather failed to meet the agreed weight of 144 lbs that was stipulated by Mayweather himself.
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Is Mayweather’s Contract Ploys and Newly Requested
Olympic Style Drug Tests Valid or a Sign of Weakness,
Is it Hagler / Leonard All Over Again?
By: Coach “K”
The Manny Pacquiao / Floyd “Money” Mayweather upcoming mega fight only in the preliminary stages of negotiations has already hits its full compliment of the usual Mayweather games.
Mayweather has begun his soon to be an arms length list of demands for him to enter the ring with Manny Pacquiao. Is it a psychological ploy or is “Money” again setting the table. Or in this case with Pacquiao’s ever growing support could it be a tiny crack in the Mayweather armor.
Just recent history shows how Mayweather will use his gigantic draw to influence all the tactical and minor aspects of his fight contracts. In his last outing he set the required weight limits forcing Marquez to move up almost two full weight classes then didn’t make the weight himself. Some see that as a minor issue as Marquez received $600,000 to take the fight. You must forget the fact that Marquez took the money, he is a fighter, he already trained in a full training camp one that Mayweather extended due to an alleged injury. There was also people who needed to be paid and as a fighter he came to fight but the truth is he was set up.
The weight played to Mayweather’s advantage big time and it was obvious the minute the two entered the ring. Putting that aside, Mayweather should have been substantially fined as well as pay Marquez. The money paid to Marquez for all practical purposes was found money not Mayweather’s. If the fight doesn’t happen there is no pay day and Mayweather would have been the cause of the cancellation. Why wasn’t Mayweather forced to jump rope, hit the sauna just loose the weight. Add to the fact he refused to release his weight.
Now here we go déjà vu all over again. According to several sources Floyd Mayweather, Jr. has again threatened to pull out of his March 13th mega fight with Manny Pacquiao over weight issues. Rumors are that Mayweather wants a bigger leeway in the maximum weight and bigger gloves. This is the type of thing that drives boxing purists insane. Boxing has added junior weight classes, fights at catch weights on top of the 24hr weigh in policy and now even a Diamond Belt for so called catch weight championships. What’s next?
This brings to mind the Leonard / Hagler 1987 championship fight still hotly debated today. Years after the fight Leonard in an interview basically admitted the fight was won in the negotiations. Hagler was paid to agree to a bigger the ring, bigger gloves and the shorter distance down from fifteen rounds to twelve. Leonard the declared winner felt he won the close controversial decision but was honest enough to admit that if he didn’t get any one of those concessions the fight may have gone differently. Add to that now inspired by a claim from Floyd Mayweather Sr. that Pacquiao is on steroids team Mayweather now wants Olympic style drug testing.
Most feel that “Money” Mayweather has always made the better business moves like facing Baldomir instead of Margarito since the money was close. Looking back now was it money, doubt, money versus risk or a tilted scale? Risk part of the ground roots draw in boxing and something that Mayweather does not want in the ring and that is the cause of all his negotiations. Most fighters ranked or not would step in to fight Mayweather just looking for a big pay day but Mayweather still needing a recognizable name. It’s when he gets it that all the scale tipping, risk minimizing starts.
But what were talking about here is champions, the best pound for pound, not just the fight everyone wants to see. What good is the man on man, one on one draw if there is always a negotiated variable? If there was ever was a case for regulation or even just some standardization, its now. Let’s get rid of the days where a fighter wins the welterweight title weighing 160lbs, fighters wearing different gloves and all the other variables. Lets see one belt and one set of rules that’s how you measure the best.
Boxing sometimes referred to as the “sweet science” is anything but a science. In science all studies are made with a means, a basis, a standard for comparison, boxing no longer has that. We might as well be comparing apples and oranges.
I understand it’s a business but it is the fans that pay the bills, just give us a straight up fair fight. Who would go to a Yankee game if when a power team comes to town they move out the fences. Or if a speed team comes in they move the bases to 100 feet. Why do we allow the fighters to tip the scales? We don’t allow it in any other sport.
In a sport where toughness is a favorable trait and the idea of adapting and overcoming is a virtue. Why do we allow the Mayweather’s to shift the scales? All we want is a fair fight. Maybe the occasional upset, you know rooting for the underdog, Rocky wouldn’t have had a chance in a 24ft ring, 12ounce gloves and a ten round fight. Using the Mayweather mind set, what was Apollo thinking?
Manny, do boxing a favor! You hold the trump card. Take the tests it will only solidify you as one of boxing’s greatest in and out of the ring but please stand your ground on all Mayweather’s other nonsense.
If it’s about the money, Mayweather will eventually come around he needs Pacquiao more than the “Pacman” needs him. Like many I’d go see a Pacquiao / Mosley fight both are true fighters and champions always taking on the best ducking no one. A Mosley / Mayweather fight won’t ever happen unless Mayweather negotiates “the fight” out fit. He will take on a lesser opponent or make someone else move up just like his choice of Baldomir over Margarito.
As far as it being a crack in the Mayweather armor, only the fight will tell. But if there is anything that will bring a fighter down it’s doubt. Is the questioning about steroids a fear, a doubt, a ploy? I see all this usual negotiation crap an attempt to erase some doubt by tilting the scales. If Manny really wants to plant some doubt fight under the standard sanctioning body rules winner takes all if there’s a crack you’ll see it!
