Did Pacquiao price himself out of the Mayweather bout?
July 12th, 2010
By Dave Lahr: Bob Arum’s mid July deadline is almost up for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to speak up about whether he agrees to Arum’s contract for the Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight. Mayweather isn’t saying anything. Since he really wanted the fight with Pacquiao up until recently, you have to wonder who screwed it up and caused Mayweather back off?
I believe in charity but Mayweather would be giving away tons of money if he agreed to a 50-50 deal with Pacquiao, not when Mayweather is putting backsides in the seats and when he’s selling big numbers on PPV. Arum probably sent the contract over to Mayweather and as soon as he saw the numbers, he was turned off from the fight. Instead of complaining about it, Mayweather showed the class act that he is and wouldn’t even lower himself to respond to what he didn’t feel was a deal worthy of his response.
You see, Mayweather is the star in the boxing world. When you want to fight him, you have to come at a lower level. You got to grovel a little. You’re not going to be working an even deal with him, because he’s the star. If Pacquiao wanted a fight with Mayweather, he should have come to the table knowing that he’ll be getting the smaller percentage of the money and that he would also be taking the full, not partial, random blood tests.
If you want to fight the best fighter in the world, you got to be willing to take the tests and take the lower money. Obviously, it’s looking like they blew it this time. Hopefully, they learn from this and know how to approach Mayweather next time.
Arum is talking about wanting to try and arrange a fight with Mayweather and Pacquiao in May of 2011. Let’s hope he comes into that negotiation realizing that Pacquiao is going to have to take the smaller money compared to Mayweather. I hope he doesn’t price himself out of another fight with Mayweather.
I suppose Pacquiao can keep fighting Miguel Cotto in the meantime, but he would be so much better off to give Mayweather want he wants so he can get the fight and boxing fans can be happy.
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This is funny. I can say one thing then the other and my followers will find a way to justify me. At times I think they work in a higher plain of thought.
Ok people, I agreed on negotiations again to 50-50.
There you go , yeah it’s true cause I know Pacquiao is a great draw as I myself am. Together we can do something special.
Or could … Arum is pushing me around , don’t like it and no matter how I look at it can’t see Pacquiao being an easy nights work. My zero is precious .
Now I’m going to take a hit from my daddy’s favorite crack pipe and get my thoughts straightened so I’ll find a good angle on how to respond to Arum’s ridicilous deadline. . .
Manny did not phase himself out of the price $$$. It is Floyd Jr. strategy to demand a 60/40 deal because he knows that MAnny will not accept this because he has been ducking Manny since Dec. 02, 2009 well before the steroid excuse was used.
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The fight will never happen.
Another Brilliant article, pure honesty deserve pure respect.
Well Like Floyd says every road leads to mayweather and thats da truth whether u like or not. Haters!!!!
To be honest 50-50 offer is one the da worst offer I have ever seen. I dont really blame Pacman becuase he i dumb and he still gets breast milk from his mom and his wife which is common thing in philipino I heard.
Anywayz bob arum that pig needs to retire seriously, he asks for stupid offers which shows how Un-Smart he really is. I think he adopted pacman and in return pac gives him regular standard procedure heads specially before big fights.
But honestly tho midget pacman doesnt deserve 50-50 with Floyd and if I was pac I would accept 60-40 simple. Floyd would seriously destroy pacman with minimum ease just da way lopez destroyed pacs cousin da other day. Muhahahaah
Wasn’t talking about the way they would finish the fight..at any rate, he could not even put away an old Mosley and the very small Marquez although he did to knock him down once….why was Clottey not throwing enough? It was as he said, everytime he threw one, he is bound to get hit more…in likelihood, he was simply made to defend himself….but going back to the numbers…as I said, Floyd had that chance to go head to head…in fact, it was shaping early on but decided to move theirs on May 1…so it’s still anybody’s game…I for one believe that style makes fight and that both styles will make a good fight and that both have the capability to beat each other and only when they fight that the question on who is better of the two will be known…But going back to a hypothetical fight between Floyd-Clottey, I don’t have doubts that Floyd will win but will certainly not knock Clottey out..they are both safety first fighters…and the fight will not happen in Dallas ( Floyd doesn’t fight away from Vegas for reasons we all know ). And the PPV numbers he will generate will not likely surpass the numbers brought in by Manny..let’s be realistic about it…the reason why Mosley-Floyd earned better PPV is because Mosley is much more popular than Clottey and had a fan base of his own aside from the fact that the fight had enough time frame for promotions. There was an objective comparison that I read between the numbers of these 2 great fighters and both were pretty even…
WTF?!!
What is this s***?!!
This writer is clearly delusional.
Is it getting harder to come up with excuses Mr. Lahr?
Deep down, beause you know you cant lie to yourself, are you realizing that you support a false idol? A fraud?
One asks for 50:50. The other says no. Who thinks the other is below him? Who thinks the other is equal to him?
Mayweather is the best boxer that ever walked on planet mother earth. Period.
I only read the headline and i can say that this article is rubbish.
This writer is a pure liberal coward who supports Mayweather unconditionally and repeats himself every article…
He bring up PPV salves but has he forgotten than Pacquiao, as he says, put more backsides in the seats?
All of Pacquiao’s big fights have out sold Mayweather’s at the gate including the De Lay Hoya fight and the Hatton fight the Pac/Cotto made more money at the gate than any of Floyd’s fights besides the one with De La Hoya…Floyd vs Hatton/Mosley = less money at the gate than Pac/De la Hoya/Cotto/Clottey so I mean let’s face it..and Mayweather put his fight with Mosley in the movie theartre…and he hasn’t sold close to a million pay-per-views since fighting De La Hoya before that Floyd was 350k and less including when ducked Margarito for Baldomir
Insider you sound like an idiot blinded by Floyd..you’re a cheerleader..Clottey has never been KO”d but Pac gave him the worst beating of his life…it was the most lopsided loss of his career…Floyd barely won a split decisions against a washed up De La Hoya and he lost to Castillo in the first fight…he was hurt against Judah and Corely more than once..he has trouble with south paws
Because Judah is trash and so is Corely but they gave Floyd trouble
lol @ T Rock the hypocrite saying that all articles are baseless and then rights a comments saying Floyd will win without analysis lol…any idiot can post a comment on here and say anything..including contradict themselves in the same message
all the comments regarding how its bob arum fault are right on the money. imo i truly believe both of these fighters want this fight. but the biggest hurdle is bob arum’s fear that if manny loses to floyd his cash cow is gone. so as the business man that he is, he has to weigh his options. i can guarantee that if bob arum wasn’t involved this fight would have already
happened. just look at who the fighter’s that some claim PBF has “ducked” I think the majority belonged to Top Rank.
I’m shocked that even Lahr has the front to defend Mayweather. There has never been a more obvious coward in boxing history… Mayweather never wanted this fight, ever. Blood, money, gloves, ring, date, peds… all just excuses not to face the real P4P fighter of the decade and year.
God bless Manny, true warrior…
froid loves EASY MONEY not BLOOD MONEY!
with pacman, froid knows it would be BLOOD MONEY.
froid loves money alright. but ONLY if the money does not mean he’ll get KTFO!
so, again, has anyone seen the actual terms of the fight? the 50-50 reasoning is a guess. so everyone saying this is mayweather’s last excuse blah blah blah don’t know what they’re saying. pacquiao might’ve demanded 70-30 for all we know.
50-50 was agreed upon before their last bouts. pac fought clottey, mayweather fought mosley (whom pac refuses to fight to this day. so to say he’s washed up is not valid.)
so 50-50 shouldn’t be agreed to anymore to begin with. if that is in fact what pacquiao demanded.
Dave Lahr,
You know what will really amuse us readers?
If you will bet your writing career against a Pacman
win on PBF.
Meaning you will never write again if Pacman wins.
ha-ha-ha
Stop all these insinuations; they are all your
personal opinions or should I say hallucinations…
As I read on another post “Saying Mayweather is scared of Pacquiao is like saying Mayweather doesn’t like Money”! Mayweather has seen a thousand Pacquiaos stylewise; Pacquiao has never seen anyone close to Mayweather! The fight would be competitive; but not really that close.
Would Top Rank please stop lying to EVERYONE and go on and sign Cotto!! They’ve made it obvious they’re not tryna fight Mayweather!!
Mayweather’s style will dominate Pacquiao. Freddie Roach is sure of this.
Try hard Dave .. try hard..
wot a ball licker, david…hahaha are u blind/? why would manny price himself out by beggin mayweather to sign contract..buahahahaha
Hahaha David liar stuuupid article once again well done to u,,, always keep saying maybe!!!! There’s no fact in ur article suuuuckkkkeeeerrssss!!!!! Just STFU!!!! Ur idol is the most coward boxer of all time you cannot deny the truth!!!!
haha, you can give the moon to floyd but he wont sign the contract if the other fighter is pacman.
I am an avid boxing fan. When I come to this site and read some of the no base comments on both sides of the PAC/Mayweather fight it makes me laugh and cringe. There are a few well informed thought out fight predictions. The rest of the posts are ignorant, prejudiced, no knowledge of the fight game promotion process nonsense. All pro fighters fight for money. They go to work as you do. You wouldn’t work for free, why do you think they would. The main difference in Pac’s situation is that he works for Arum. PBF works for himself! Arum is the problem with the fight coming to the final closing. He is so worried that his cash cow is about to be shut down after PAC looses this fight. I believe his plan is to try and get at least 2-3 more fights out of PAC before finally pitting his money man against PBF. Those 3 fights will definitely be against Arum stable fighters. PAC will go down in history as a great fighter, but he will have a lost that sent him into final retirement and that will be by the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Without a doubt, the fight will happen.
Let manny and Bob Arum walk away AGAIN!! Who really cares..Most of us real fight fans want to see this fight made but if they dont want it, Im not gonna loose any sleep over it!! Eventually even pactards (fans of only manny that just recently got into the game) will get tired of manny fighting top rank bums and other weight drained has beens!! Manny only got popular because he beat guys Floyd already beat !! Also Floyd retired and only then was Manny p4p!!
Remember guys that floyd called out Pacman for a March fight when Roach declared that Pac is not ready for a March or May fight since he sees Floyd as a very difficult fighter that Pac should be trained for at least 6 months to handle Floyd’s skill. Little did floyd knew that he swallowed the hook!! Pac immediately said” for the record, I want to fight Floyd in March or anytime he likes”. Castillo was brought in for an evaluation if Pac can beat floyd!! And cotto is just a test if Pac can absorb with flying colors Floydie’s vaunted left hook!!! Time to say quack quack quack since floyd knew very well that he was outsmarted by Pac and company!!!!
It is not Manny Or Floyd Fault. It is that big dumb ass Bob Arum, who is stopping the fight from taking place. At the very least, Don King would not be such an a^*h@#$..
it should be 60/40 cut share, random blood testing up to fight night….take it or leave it pacman…floyd is the king and the best of all the time……more a-side meth pls.
no. floyd jr’s silence means he’s scared to death of being ktfo.
ha,ha,ha.to the writer yeah man you’re right!..ha.ha.
I love my zero.
I get lot of fans with it who don’t really care that much who I’ve fought. To them I’m a hero with my zero, and if I lose it how does my record look then ? Let’s face it, there wouldn’t be too much talk of me afterwards. At least my GOAT claims would go out of the window for good.
Pacquiao. That dude looks dangerous. Even my daddy says so. And I know I’ve always had bit of struggle with pressure fighters who also had some skill. First fight with Castillo was a nightmare and my uncle said after the fight that I was lucky to get that one.
So if I could choose I would fight Pacquiao much later. I just hope he doesn’t retire before that cause I got a fear I might en up looking like a fool . Ideal would be after his started to look a bit washed up, or that congress madness gets to him. That would be good. I know I cold win him maybe even now but why take the risk ??? This is boxing and it might turn into a real nightmare.
Damn that Pacquiao agreeing to those tests, my run-plan this time of not agreeing 50-50 ain’t as good. People will mainly blaim me for ruining the fight, only my true fans would stick with me, but those guys would do anything for me, I’m sure many of them would come to guide my mansion if I would ask them to. If I would just feed them I bet they would organize patrols with my logo on their butt and walk up and down my street. . .
Signign out, F.M .
( I will retire when
the hell I want
to and it will got
nothing to do with
the boxing or the
fans . I’m out
here for me not
boxing, jesus,
when will you
people get it )
@MBA i believe he could get more people to the fight than Manny and he would actually finish Clottey inside the distance, he’d be like fighting a kid for Floyd, much as Manny is known to people as a knock out artist a fighter like Clottey needs to be beat boxing if he is going to drop and Floyd would he might not have the 16 he failed to ko but he would Clottey due to style clash, Manny wasn’t even good enough to impress in that fight Clottey looked more impressive than Pacman, if Clottey threw more he’d of won.
@are we there yet? is Floyd willing to fight Manny?
what are you on about if Pacman had courage Floyd as tret Manny like all the other fighters in at the top and its Manny not accepting he think he can get 50/50 with Mayweather yet he cant make the numbers so does he deserve 50/50 i tell you what the Philipines are screwed when he becomes congressman.
I dont even know why people think Pacman worthy of 50/50 with Mayweather his compairing their past fights he’s not even worth the 75/25 it works out at so to get offered 60/40 thats really good and must be Pacman ducking Floyd or Pacman being stupid
Can anybody promote a Clottey-Mayweather fight next month without 24/7 HBO at Dallas Cowboy Stadium? Will he surpass Manny’s record against the same opponent with precisely the same time frame of preparation? Do you think Floyd-Mosley fight will generate the same PPV numbers if it were held on the same day that Manny fought Clottey? Because he had the chance to do it because the very same day at Vegas was reserved for a Floyd fight…that should have been a head on collision and to some extent will determine the numbers…Why do you think was the real reason why his bout with Marquez was postponed?
floyd is doing the right thing. floyd has already told pac what he needs to do to fight him. anything elese is talking to a wall.
next on deck……… the punisher paul williams!!!!!!!!!
Manny needs to fight atleast 5 times to make the money he would make on a single fight with Floyd. Manny should not behave as if he has made so much money from a single fight before for him to ask for a 50-50 with the man who is known as ‘money’. In contrast Floyd can make the money in just two fights and he would be smiles all the way to the bank. Besides the rubbish packfans have been saying about Packman not fighting for money, how come money has become an issue? Atleast we all know Floyd fights for money…he says it doesn’t he? Nobody has answered my qusestion..has the mother to Packman allowed him to fight more than one last fight? Pack must swallow his little pride accept the 40% for his people’s needs as a polititian. Remember, Packman did not win politics because he is smart upstairs or has an education, it was popularity through boxing.
Is FLOYD SCARED to LOSE BIG TIME to MANNY like the HATTON TKO.
I hope Floyd is okay HAVING NO TROUBLES SLEEPING @ NIGHT contemplating NOT TO FIGHT MANNY? or is HE having SLEEPLESS NIGHTS if he fight MANNY & HE WILL BE SMACK BANG by MANNY’s KNOCK OUT PUNCH?
DID Floyd, SR had said that MANNY is a FIGHTING MACHINE? & FLOYD Jr is not GOIN to FIGHT him(MANNY?)?
WHAT SORT of EXCUSES FLOYD have, if HE DUCKS OUT MANNY?……..next time Floyd WILL ASK an 70/30 split purse, etc. UN-ACCEPTABLE DEMANDS to TEAM PACMAN….so he will never fight MANNY!
or the DEFEANING SILENCE is MEANS NO?
3-4 NIGHTMARES for FLOYD……then it’s over……for FLOYD,JR? To have the BALLs & GUTS to fight MANNY?
or FLOYD JR…will go AWOL(absent with out official leave)?….I mean 1-2 year off? & fight again if he needed DOUGH & fight a less caliber/out of their prime opponent!
PACMAN TEAM is READY! How about FLOYD?
@pic
Manny should take his fighter of the decade award to a pawn shop and see how much he can get for it. It be worth anything after Floyd beats him easily.
Dave your are bringing ass licking to a new level you act as if you don’t want this fight to happen mmmm I wonder why lol
@ tommy
I’m guessing by Pacman b.s., you’re bringing up the blood tests til the day of the fight again?
@ mack
Agreed 100%
And BTW, when Floyd’s 68 years old (if he doesn’t croak from aids before then), and has done his 10,000th interview on this very subject of WHY he never fought Pacman, he will have still not run out of b.s. excuses. He never cared about boxing or the fans, all he’s cared about is how pretty he thinks he looks in the mirror, and money. Nothing else.
SEE YOU AT THE FIGHT, DAVE LAHR MY MAN.
Mayweather is the star of boxing? Just compare his achievements and awards with Pacquiao and you be the judge!
@DaveLhar: really your boss have told you not to fight manny? Can you please tell your boss not to fight anymore? And also if he wants to make a year of 2 off just tell him not to come back anymore! Cash-cow? what? really are you sure? Or maybe people pays PPV just because they want see you boss to kiss the canvas.
60/40 to the winner/looser would be fair but Floyd isn’t interested in that either due to the fear of him loosing!
Thing is how many of the PPV numbers bought in to watch Floyd and how many buy in to watch him getting KO’d????
My money is on the KO’d!!
The real problem in all this is, the Pig that has put on so much fat that it believes it is an Elephant….. A pig, no matter how much fat it puts on, can never become an Elephant. Manny has terorised some fellas, but they are not in Floyd’s class and neither is Manny. This has the potential of becoming the biggest mis-much in history. The road to Floyd can never be through arm-twisting manuvers, the sonner every Packfan understands this, the better.
too much risk to face pacman. they need to pay me 100 million to get in the ring with that cat.
It would be stupid of Floyd to accept the same amount of money with Manny while there won’t be a random blood test. I think the whole ranting going on from Pacman’s camp does not deserve a response from Floyd. From day one, all what Pacman’s camp has been doing is try to twist Floyd’s arm by negotiating through the press while soliciting for public sympathy. If Floyd bends and accepts what Arum is shoving at him, then it means Packman has been rewarded for all the disrespect he showed Floyd by straight away going to fight Clottey without coming to a compromise with Floyd. Floyd is in the driver’s seat like it or not. Manny can fight Cotto and batter him the second time if he so wishes. Floyd meant what he said after the Sugar bout, deadlines to floyd are like Arum shooting himself in the leg, he should know that better. The fact is none of the two need each other.
Slurp…Floyd’s the best…Gulp…He’s the greatest…Lick…Money is his name…Slurp…Better than Ali…Swallow…Better than Robinson…Slurp…
Kari are you a moron? Everyone know’s Mayweather is the top drawer for PPV Views!!!! Yes we know you love Pacquiao but he ain’t a bigger draw than Mayweather wheater you know it or not
I really hope this fight happens!!! Boxing needs this fight!! Nobody will show up or buy their PPV if they fight somebody else!! This will be the nail in the coffin for boxing if this fight does not happen
I love this web site, its not about news its about opinions and thats why David Lahr, and Chris Williams always get the most responses to their articles(opinions). Who cares about the millions dollars these two are going to make its not like their sharing it with us. Lets focus on what this does to the sport of boxing, not how two rich guys argue who deserves more money. If anything these two should be fighting for free on worldwide and national TV. They are already rich from us fans buying each PPV they have put in front of us. Know its time for the both of them to show us for once what boxing means and what the fans mean. Because if it was free both would still walk away with millions in endorsements and commercials. The superbowl is free do you see the NFL running out of money after its all said and done.
AS USUAL, THE ARTICLE OF DAVE LAHR IS SOMEWHAT A BALANCING SCALE SWINGING AT THE DIRECTION OF FLOYD MAYWEATHER. NO POINT OF NEUTRALITY AT ALL. I AM NEITHER A FAN OF BOTH BUT ONLY WRITE BASED ON TRUTH. THE ISSUE OF PPV IS CALCULATED ON ONE SIDE OF THE COIN ONLY. PLEASE DO NOT ESTIMATE OR COUNT THE PPV FOR MAYWEATHER ALONE, BUT CONSIDER ALSO THE SIDE OF PACQUIAO LIKE IN THIS EXAMPLE:
WHO DO YOU THINK GOT THE HIGHER PPV BETWEEN FLOYD MAYWEATHER VS JANE MOSLEY AND MANNY PACQUIAO VS JOSHUA CLOTTEY. IN THIS CASE THE MATCHUP BETWEEN MAYWEATHER AND MOSLEY GETS MORE BUYS ON PPV THAN THAT OF PACQUIAO VS CLOTTEY. DO YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE OF CLOTTEY AND MOSLEY. MOSLEY HAS MORE BASE FANS THAN CLOTTEY AND BECAUSE MOSLEY IS MORE POPULARLY KNOWN FIGHTER THAN CLOTTEY. THIS IS THE MAIN REASON WHY MAYWEATHER HAS A HIGHER RECORD OF PAY PER VIEW THAN PACQUIAO. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO IS THEIR RESPECTIVE OPPONENT IN THE RING. HOW ABOUT DOING A REVERSAL MATCHUP? MANNY PACQUIAO VS SHANE MOSLEY AND FLOYD MAYEATHER VS JOSHUA CLOTTEY. WHO DO YOU THINK GETS MORE BUYS ON PPV? PLEASE DO A SIMPLE IMAGINATION. DON’T EVER TELL ME AGAIN THAT MAYWEATHER ATTRACTS MORE PAY PER VIEW IN THIS EXAMPLE. THIS IS A NEUTRAL PRESENTATION OF FACTS AND I HONESTLY BELIEVE IN THIS CLASSIC EXAMPLE, PACQUIAO HAS A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF PPV.
JACK FLORES
BOXING ANALYST
MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Blood test, money matters are all alibi. Just one thing for sure and obvious.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s menstruation period is almost over, so, we should be hearing something from him soon. Unless Floyd has menometrorrhagia, which is prolonged or excessive bleeding from his uterus. That would kill the fight against Manny Pacquiao indefinetly!
JUST FOR THE RECORD IM A MIGUEL COTTO FAN
As much as i would like to see another cotto pacquiao fight I really would love to see manny knock out floyd. Dont get me wrong im not one of those anti floyd mayweather guys, I just dont think anybody can beat manny pacquiao the first time they fight him. If however you get a rematch than perhaps you will be able to make the right adjustments to actually apply them in the fight, you might be able to win. Having said that manny is great all time great floyd in my eyes at least has not yet had a defining fight in his career, sure mosley is an all time great but i kinda feel he was hurt by the big layoff and was too amped in the megafight with floyd so he couldnt get off or get out of the way. Mayweather of course i believe has the best chance of any fighter out there to get a victory against pac the first time around. But I think its unlikely because just like floyd is always prepared and mentally settled for the fight manny is the master now at commanding the ring, he has great ring generalship. He can apply pressure at a sustained fast pace using an enormous punch output while still being able to hit like a mule, oh yeah and he can go all night. Until someone beats manny after the way hes been demolishing fighters he “manny pacquiao” is numero uno……………………………………..if hes actually clean?
well I AM VERY HAPPY WE ALL NOW KNOW FLOYD IS A DUCKER AND AFRAID OF MANNY, i AM GLAD EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THAT NOW
The ‘Noy never wanted to get exposed so he ducked Shane Mosley, ducked Floyd Mayweather, ducked Bradley, ducked Marquez trilogy, ducked Cotto at a regular 147 catchweight, now preparing to duck Cotto again at a regular 154 catchweight.
It’s like, dude, the Phagiao is half ‘Noy, half Duck.
Or maybe he’s all Duck, and just pretending to be a ‘Peeno?
Watch out! The Phagiao is about to launch another Duck Attack!!
Quack! Quack! Quack!
dude its all bob arums fault people take the wool away from over your eyes… its all BOB ARUM he ruins the fights then paints mayweather to be the bad guy and in turn makes manny look like he doesnt wanna fight anybody who isnt a boxer
Here goes one of FMJ’s hoes blasting on pacman. This guy Lahr or somethng most like fmj too much!!! How much u get pay to svck that and get knock out from behind??? All I got to say is that if Floyd don’t sign he scare. No more excuse just tell ue bf to sign if he not scare!!
Oh yeah Dave. After a few times taking shots at your writing I should expect to be banned from posting in this site just like you banned other good no non-sense posters who were disgusted with your cheap shots at great human being and great fighter in Manny Pacqaiuo.
who the hell is mark ‘chop chop’ johnson? I think you’re referring to mark ‘too sharp’ johnson lol
*bump
this is the only excuse left for mayweather dave, no more…if the fight will happen or not, we already saw what really a coward mayweather is and how he ducks his opponents..before i dont believe but now I BELIEVE!!!if he fought cotto,margarito and mosley before he’s nothing but a dump garbage today.and now he keeps telling that he’s the greatest boxer? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Lets make one thing clear, boxing is sport first and business second. The sport of boxing says Pac is the number 1 pound for pound fighther in the world and the fighter of the decade.
Without the sport of boxing there is no business. So dont tell me his PPV numbers come first. If Floyd keeps up this more PPV charade, which most people dont buy, he ll get no respect in the sport boxing and history will always remember as the talented boxer who was a COWARD.
@ Punchy.Then you agree that pac is equal in the B.S. department too….I agree that Floyd sucks if he doesnt take this fight,even if I dont agree on a potential outcome if he does but lets just say that they are 50-50 for better or worse.
its about time Manny earn his fighter of the decade award. he received this award because he won 7 titles in 7 weight classes. But can he please fight the best fighters in a weight class. He chose not to fight Mark chop chop Johnson and Rafeal Marquez. Then he chose not to fight Tim Austin. Then he moved up in weight and at 135 ducked Nate Campbell and fought the paper champ David Diaz. then instead of fighting Tim Bradley at 140 for the title he chose to fight Ricky Hatton. Then at 147 he chose Cotto to win another paper belt. Manny has more paper belts than any other fighter in history. Manny please if you don’t fight PBF at least fight PWILL for the 154 belt
Pacman is equal in the equation, so he deserves equal pay. Floyd isn’t the legend he thinks he is. Fact is, he’s scared silly and will most likely think up some other b.s. excuse to avoid Manny.
We see thru your b.s. there Floyd. Be a man (for once) and step up to the plate. We know you’ll get your butt handed to you, but at least you’d prove you have a set of stones.
That’s a little extreme
Mayweather is just like Chavez Jr. … Same record and all… Two protected BUMSSSSS!
@ Partenalga.If he agrees to fight you may swallow those words….If he doesnt??? your right.He’s a bum.I still think Floyd is a better boxer but If he screws all of us fight fans over,he might as well post up at the garbage can fire,down at the end of skid row….FLOYD! do the right thing here.
another of the same old boring tune from a Pac hater.
Come on, get a more balanced writing otherwise you’re considered an amateurish fanatic blogger.
Mayweather is a bum!!!!!
Nice try Dave Lahr! hehehe! But it’s still in Mayweathers court!
They both need each other equally.I still think Floyd would win but if he doesnt take this fight I blame him solely.Pacquiao can still make interesting fights at 140-147 if Arum allows it.Floyd cant.This is easier for Floyd than Williams or Martinez at 154.If he doesnt give the fight fans what they deserve then he doesent deserve any of the fight fans money…With that said.Manny cant beat Floyd.Period.Unless Floyd refuses to fight.Double period..
“Mayweather showed the class act”
so after many sleepless nights bangin ur head on d wall, this is ur BEST excuse for floyd’s silence??? … and ur takin us all for fools 4 buyin dis ryt??!! … oh ur meanin dis for floyd fans ryt? oh sory
“If you want to fight the BEST FIGHTER in the world, you got to be willing to take the tests and take the lower money.”
but but but .. that is pac, ryt? according to BWAA and Ring magazine for d past decade and now … wat r u lahr a schizo?? .. oh u mus be advisin floyd, sory hehe … hey floyd fans, 4 d nth tym, d jury’s out, sentencing done, case closed … pac is FOTD, P4P .. jus swallow it and d bes thing 4 u is simply to convins floyd 2 fyt pac and take dat honor away … only money maters 4 floyd? hahaha … den y d floyd family keep cussin screamin gripin bout dat FOTD award? com on
wow whoever wrote this article has no clue what they are talki ng about. Mayweather needs Pacquiao. Pacquiao does not need mayweather. Pacquiao fights anyone and everyone. Floyd does not. When their careers are put side by side their is no comparison. I wonder why Floyd won’t sign that contract. Well lets examine his whole career. Did you know the last time mayweather lost a fight was in the olympics against a fast aggressive south paw. If u study the Zab Judah fight which was the last south paw mayweather has fought going into the seventh round mayweather was having alot of trouble. in the second round Judah techinically knocked mayweather down when his glove hit the ground whic the rep didn’t call. If Judah wasn’t a six round fighter mayweather would have been in for a long night. In boxing the greatest fighters are not determined by having no losses but by how they perform against the greatest fighters of THEIR ERA. Floyd has fought none of them. I am not a floyd mayweather hater but to act like a 50 50 split is unreasonable is ridiculous. Especially since manny will be pressing the fight and chasing mayweather all night long