Pacquiao prepared for Mayweather, Hatton or Cotto – News
June 14th, 2010
By Jason Kim: According to ABS-CBNNews, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is ready to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr., but if the fight can’t be put together, he is open to fighting rematches with Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto. Obviously, Pacquiao isn’t serious about wanting to fight Hatton again, because he seems to have been really effected by the loss to Pacquiao, hasn’t fought since being destroyed in the 2nd round by Pacquiao last year in May 2009, and has put on a great deal of weight.
Cotto isn’t considered the best fighter in the junior middleweight division but he does fight for the same promotional company as Pacquiao and he would likely bring in more money than a fight between Pacquiao and WBC junior middleweight champion Sergio Martinez. There’s no word as to when or if the Mayweather-Pacquiao negotiations will be completed. Oscar De La Hoya said this week that the negotiations are almost finalized but that means little because one thing can upset the whole negotiations like last time when Mayweather and Pacquiao were unable to agree to a blood cutoff for the drug testing.
Despite having agreed on everything else pertaining to purse split, gloves size, and weight penalty, the two fighters were unable to solve this one thing. If they aren’t able to come to an agreement this time, you will likely see Bob Arum quickly substitute his plan B opponent, which will likely be Cotto. It’s not something that a lot of fans want to see, but both Cotto and Pacquiao have big enough fan bases on their own to make this a fairly decent pay-per-view event along the lines of 1 million PPV buys.
It might come in a little less than that this time, because there’s less suspense now because Pacquiao already proved that he’s a lot better than Cotto by stopping him in the 12th round last November. It might not be a fight that boxing fans want to see, but if Mayweather is off the table, there are really not a whole lot of other options out there for Pacquiao unless he wants to fight some of the lesser stars.
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Well been honest if I was cotto.I would fight mayweather.I been want this ever since he knock judah.cotto vs mayweather.would be the best.I think cotto is the only fighter out ther that could beat mayweather.plz god I been waiting for this.
@torrecampo ko.d pacman,… singurat ko.d pacman so bad the referee had to lift pacman off the floor and nedal hussien floored pacman with a straight left……look for floyd to ko pacman with a straight right, the one he dont see coming lol
Who would pay to see Manny fight Hatton again?Cotto yes.
@ koko
Right on man. If Hatton wants a rematch step on the plate and get KO’ed the second time around.
He loves rockstar though.
Conspiracy in boxing politcs.
Cotto, Hatton, and Mosely are damaged goods! the only interesting fights out there for Manny Pacquiao would be against Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez, or a 3rd fight with Marquez. Cotto has the WBA belt, but Pacquiao destroyed him already, not much interest from the fans to see a rematch. Pacquiao destroyed Hatton and sent him into retirement! His name shouldn’t even be mentioned anymore, if they do rematch, that’s You Tube material! Floyd Mayweather softened up Mosely already, so Pacquiao would destroy him in the ring!
Just take the drug test first pac,
there is no other fight left for manny pacman but mayweather.
that is it, and then, win or lose, he should retire.
Paul Williams is moving back to welter; why not him?
I’m a huge Mosley fan, but after his last performance I don’t know if he still has it. I give Mayweather credit for not just beating Mosley but in the way that he did it (he didn’t run & pot-shot, he stood his ground, fired hard shots and was the aggressor). I am not a Mayweather fan, but he gained a lot more respect for that performance. That being said, I feel Mosley has to prove that it was just Mayweather that made him look bad and that his age was not a factor. I don’t feel that it should be against Pac, it needs to be against another good fighter, before Pac!
@PRESTON, wait for PACQUIAO to finish his businees with MAYWEATHER and i believe MARQUEZ would be next.
please all pachaters, don’t instigate MANNY to fight OLD DADDY MOSLEY because you all will say: OH, HE WAS JUST GET BEATEN BY FLOYD! PACMAN KNOCKED DOWN TWICE AND STOPPED AT 12ROUND THE FIGHTER WHO BEAT DADDY BEFORE FLOYDIE AND THERE IS NO POINT OF FIGHTING HIM. BESIDES, YOU ALL HAVE TO ENCOURAGE FLOYD MAYWEATHER TO FIGHT PACQUIAO AND NEVER ACT ALL OF YOU AS SPOKEPERSONS. PACMAN IS BACKED IN THE PHILIPPINES AND RELEASED AGAIN HIS STATEMENT SAYING HE WANTS TO FIGHT FLOYD.
why no mention of Marquez?
He’s prepared for retired Hatton, damaged Cotto, and Floyd. Why not Mosley. I think Mosley as this point is still better than Cotto and retired Hatton.
I don’t think GBP allows Hatton to fight Pacman again.
i feel with the addition of stewart in cottos camp the rematch with Pacman will be much much better. It will be a better fight then any other fights that manny could make other than the ever demanding pretty boy, so i say lets get a cotto-pacman2 and see the outcome. remember cotto was fighting and basically training himself for that fight and he was doing good until latter rounds.
manny vs shane what a fight that would be
Why hasn’t Floyd come forward to make the fight happen with Pac? All effort for making this fight is coming from Team Pac. If Pac is one-dimensional and PBF will beat him with or without PEDs, what’s taking Floyd so long to decide? Money shouldn’t be an issue here. There’s plenty for Floyd, even with 50-50 split. Is Floyd really that scared of Pac?
Its ridiculous to include hatton as an alternate opponent. But, I heard Pac is getting irked about Hatton insinuations about Pac taking PED. It could be the reason why Pac wants to beat him again.
Hatton, come on yeah right.
where is that gentleman, shane mosley?did you hear about him lately?was the fight fix to give way to the super super dough fight bet pac and fmjr.?well,he is a multi-millionair now.he is a very good fighter with a class.
i agree w/u paul that’s is gonna easy square man
i want him to fight mosley or marquez not hatton or cotto talk about easy wins
pacquiao is so tired about thier megafigth with mayweather! he is fade up of mayweather never ending demand. he agreed that silly demand and come nothing! that’s why as a figther with one word he will figth this coming november as a last figth even not mayweather! even us boxing fans tired! really really tired.
before the Mosley – Mayweather fight and especialy after the destruction of Margarito in january 2009 i realy believed that Shane Mosley is the only man who could beat Pacquiao. But not anymore. I have seen an old Mosley in the Mayweather fight with no gas. If Pacquiao would has been in that ring in that night on may first, Mosley wouldn’t been able to last 12 rounds.
Jason,
How can you mention Hatton in the breath as Manny?
a Pacquiao – Cotto 2 will be much competitive at a higher weigh class, but i don’t think Cotto will be able to beat Pacquiao even at 154 pounds.
mosley agree w/mayweather demand to loss the figth
comon manny, fight Mosley!!!