Mayweather resting or Pacquiao fighting: Who’s hurt the most?
May 20th, 2011
By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: Floyd Maweather stepped away from the ring after his unanimous decision over Shane Mosley last year. In a recent interview, Floyd stated that he’s not young any more and that fighting three or four times a year is not healthy at this point in his career. He has a good point. I’m pretty sure he’s keeping himself in good shape while away from the ring. He might spar here and there, but let’s be real.
Manny Pacquiao has been a wrecking machine in the ring. This has been coupled by his work as Congressman. He is coming off a victory over Shane Mosley. Before that fight came off, a deal was offered to Juan Manuel Marquez for a third bout. So it seems pretty obvious Pac wants to fight often (in this case it’s twice a month). Arum will have no problem finding opponents for Manny to face. Timothy Bradley will more than likely sign to Top Rank when his contract is up with Gary Shaw thus aligning himself with a possible fight with Pacquiao. Then you have Zab Judah, Miguel Cotto, and newly signed Kermit Citron. If things are lined up correctly, Pacquiao could have fights set up until November 2013. The bad part about this is wear and tear can takes its toll on his body. And I haven’t even thrown father time in the mix. Without proper rest, the body can not heal like it should. Pac should take advantage of this and at least take one fight off considering the fact that he’s had fifty six bouts.
If the mega fight does come off, by human nature excuses will be made by both Mayweather and Pacquiao fans depending on the results. If Mayweather opts not to take a tune up and jumps in the ring with Manny and loses, his fans will say “He has been sitting out for a year. He didn’t have a tune up”. If Manny loses, it will be “He’s been in the ring with bigger fighters, and he’s starting to slow down and look his age”. Yes, I admit I’m a Mayweather fan. And if Mayweather loses, I will not make one excuse. And if he wins, I will give him his just due. And if Pac wins, I will give him his just do. And if he loses, I won’t hold anything against him. It will be the better won the fight
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Psychologically,emotionally and financially…it’s the scared and coward Floyd jr who’s really hurt at this time.Much more that the people around the world already knew that Floyd jr is too scared to Pacman. It’s a big insult to the black american people.Bwahahahaahaha!
don’t worry! because the fight will not happen, thanks to your guy and his out of this world rules!!!
Pac has never agreed to RANDOM blood tests, Roach admitted this right before the Mosley fight. Roach also said how it is easy to beat the tests they have now. Mayweather has said from the beginning of negotations in late 09, that if Pac takes the test they will fight. Pac had no problem with this until Floyd agreed to ALL of Pac’s demands and then this testing suddenly became a problem. Roach was even out saying how they will take any test, but as soon as Floyd agreed to the ring, gloves, $10 mil penalty then and only then did the tests become an issue. And Roach just said they still won’t take the test! Mayweather signed a contract to fight Pac and then Pac signed to fight Clottey almost immediately after that! And scheduled a blood test closer than he is willing to against floyd! Look, neither are afraid of each other, but Manny lets Daddy Arum choose everything for him and Arum knows that Pac can fight bums and rake in millions, so why risk all that with one fight that he might actually lose? When Pac is ready to retire he will finally fight Mayweather if Floyd is still free and able to fight because then that will make the most financial sense for Arum. Look who Manny has fought since he walked away from May- Clottey, Marg, and Mosley!- and look how much Arum has made off these extremely low risk fights! And a fight with Floyd would make as much today as it would have in early 2010, so why would Arum have risked that? If Manny fought floyd and lost Arum could not have made anywhere near as much money off Manny fighting has-beens, cheats, and never weres. When it makes Arum the most money to have Pac fight Floyd, that is when we will see the fight everyone wants.
I think Floyd made the best point of all. He said that America is trying to ruin player’s careers over steroids. Such as Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, Mark McGuire. And all they’re doing is riding bicycles and swinging baseball bats.
Boxers, as put by Floyd, are in the “hurt” industry. Their objective is to fight someone else, hit them as hard as they can, and win a FIGHT. Why are boxers not held to a higher standard for drug testing than other athletes in non-contact sports? Why should Manny Pacquiao NOT prove his innocence by taking the tests? Why would he not WANT to?
everybody has to admit Mayweather is coward, stop the nonsense Floyed fight Pacquiao, if not then you really is scared to death to fight Manny. Floyds fans up to now seems to have problems in their brain, so plain and simple, your guy is a coward non of this blood test, court cases, vacation etc etc this are all excuses, just fight a finish it, but, unfortunately he is really scared, have to admit.
FACTS:
Interviewer to Floyd : “Why didn’t you fight Miguel Cotto?”
Floyd: “Because Puerto Rico is TOO FAR AWAY”.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Margarito went to the table of Floyd and said to his face in broken english:
Margarito: “I wanna fight,ok?”
Floyd: (Stuttering) “Hey, you know what? I’m a businessman. You talk to my promoters, because that what business…(cut-off by Margarito)
Margarito: “Les fight”…
Floyd: “You know what?, Lahk I tol you, Im’ a businessman first and if you”….Margarito turns his back and walks away.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
now if that is not ducking, I don’t know what is.
any comments Floyd!ots???
Not young anymore? LOL
What is this world coming too?!
The matrix this world has become is causing people to limmitt themselves WAY too much!
Myan warriors used to fight in the battlefield in their 60′s and even older!
The “modern” world is LIMMITTED WAT TOO MUCH!!!
Floyd is a coward. Americans are fast becoming cowards, they use to be so brave! Now, Americans like Floyd are making up excuses so that he would not fight a small Southeast Asian guy! The Americans killed Bin Laden and now they are afraid of the impending retaliations by Bin Laden’s followers!
There might never be a fight with Mayweather and it seems Manny has fights lined up if it does not. it could be that they’re both content with their legacies. and last i think it won’t have the fireworks that everone thinks it’ll have the feel of the shane fight, boxer and aggressor which was booed
And if there is no trust in the tsting systems because as you Floydiots seem to think, why demand a test? If you feel that dugs can be flushed out and not be detected again I ask, why demand the test be taken?
Lady Floyd almost broke his ankles coming back from his self imposed retirement to face Hatton and then Marquez. Beacuse he knew they were easy to beat. When he came to face Marquez he said he wanted to reclaim what was his. He and his family of Gagweathers insisted that Manny had no skeeeeellllzz, that Lady Floyd would whip him easily.
However after Manny destroyed Hatton suddenly Pops Gagweather started the PEDS. Yet the Gagweather family have said often that with or without PEDS he can whip Manny. Therefore I must again ask, why not destroy a guy who is so one-dimensional, so easy, for the biggest ever PPV and money earned?
I say it is because win or lose he will be hurt badly but it is more because he wants to protect his 0 like a mother bear protects her cubs. I must also ask since the Gagweathers are so sure that PEDS can be masked, how can we be sure that he is not using the same masking they talk about?
Look at Poppa Gag. At his age he looks fitter than when he was boxing. The body guards around Lady Floyd look huge. And how quickly did Lady Gaga recover against Mosley? Both he and Manny train very hard and are in great condition. Why then do they insist that Manny is on PEDS but Floyd is clean? Why has he fought everybody until Manny without testing? And again if
they insist he is maksing PEDS why insist on having them? Is it fear, jealousy to smear the man’s achievements or both?
good article
Kudos to “Big Moe” for writing a balance piece.
I just don’t know whether the trio of C. Williams, D.Lahr and D. Ambrose will follow suit.
Perhaps fans of both sides too’ should stop throwing dirt at each other and find a way to make NSAC obliged both Fac and Floyd to fight with testing procedure agreeable and OBLIGATORY to both camps.
Lance Armstrong was tested 500 times in the past 20-years and was found clean. Now a dirty accusation by a former teamate says otherwise. Which is to be believed, 500 tests (w/c proved negative) or the “word” of a non-credible accuser? Well, sounds similar to Floyd Sr’s accusation.
its not like floyd is getting any younger. he should be able to do 2 fights a year like pacquiao. all he is doing is getting older and everything that comes with it. the ones that are losing in this are his die hard fans. you think floyd cares with all his money?
i hope that scared team will not use the test issue anymore now that pacman will accept all the test.
no more alibis,accept the challenge!
manny is a warrior and a great one!
Wasn’t expecting that read from this guy. Good opinionated article. Could use more of that to help promote the fight on this website rather than the usual one sided mayweather propaganda.
Big moe- got to give my respect for this article. I’m a pacquiao fan much more than a mayweather fan. It’s actually not close. However I feel the same way about the winner. Let’s hope with more writing like this, it will actually happen.
@ Killa. Prove to us that Floyd is the P4P king. Maybe you can help by giving him your balls he he he
i never believe BIG MOE!!!
thats a lot of BS floyd.haahhhhaa.plain and simple you are afraid to fight.
No matter what everybody say… Manny is the greatest boxer…yeah!
You are right robbie, i agree with u. Nice article
PAC should take the test?
Fact (as far as i can get):
PAC already agreed to take the test before, after the fight or even between rounds. (source: Manny Pacquiao: Politics as Usual). But during an interview, PAC team (Alex Ariza and his adviser) said they will agree to the test with 7 day cut-offs.
I think cut-offs were meant to recover the condition of the boxer from the effects of RBT-Olympic Style. If you suspected that PAC will still take PEDS after those cut-offs then what’s the difference with TAKING THE TEST AFTER THE FIGHT (that same night)?
If people were questioning the credibility of NSAC or any other commission. Then, everyone will admit that those previous fights hosted by these commissions are not credible. right?
look at the picture! Look of a man who is afraid of something!!take a wild guest!tsk!tsk!tsk!
I know some ppl on here that are too scared to think before they type hmmmm wonder who they could be.
I agree with you juice too bad ppl are going to call you a floydiot or some other immature name. Glad to see someone is using there head on here though. I know what it is and you know what it is too, some many ppl won’t get it though. I wouldn’t commit to anything if I had charges pending on me either not to mention trying talk to his the kids and make sure they understand what’s going, repair relationships. I don’t think ppl take that into mind, they just post non-sense instead of common sense.
Floyd should start eating dog meat and cat spring rolls too.
Its just funny a little bit before the marquez fight negotations during the pacquaio vs mosley promotion,the media announces that Bob arum had secret negoatations with mayweather and he priced his self out. Then they offer marquez a better deal then the one he supposedly priced his self out with in the last negotations. Then pacquaio beats mosley and now is fighting marquez, and mayweather speaks up finally on video after the fight. Its so plain to see that every move there making is to build this fight up. I wouldn’t even be surprised if mayweather and Arum are really in cohoots secretly and there just trying to make this as big as they can. But it’s so obvious everything Pacquaio is doing is based on a mayweather fight. From the beginning of his jump to welterweight: Pacquaio fought de la hoya and hatton to show he could beat them better then floyd, he fought cotto who’s someone Floyd was supposedly scared of. He then fought Clottey whos basically an all defensive fighter to show that mayweather won’t be a problem, then he fights margarito a fighter floyds supposedly scared of, then they fight mosley to prove once again he can do a better job beating him and to fight his first african american fighter, and now marquez which mayweather easily beat at 144 a couple years ago and now pacquaios fighting him at 144 to settle there trilogy and prove he can beat him better then floyd. Arum knows exactly what he’s doing. There definitely gonna fight the end of next year and then probley both retire, I promise you. Theres know way this fight doesn’t happen, no way.
What you guys do not realize is that peds are rampant in most pro sports. It is not as simple as just taking a test after a fight. That is so 1980! They can be flushed out in days. When you use them to train it puts those others at a disadvantage and can be hazardous to yours and there health. I am not saying any one is guilty, all I am saying is that we need better testing. I would if it was me being accused take any test and kick there a$s seven ways to Sunday in the ring! Boxing is one of the most crooked sports around and if we all demanded better testing it would be way better off.
I expect Floyd to stay retired.
Manny has been wrecking people who fight in turtle shells, move like a mummy with no defense and old people who try to box and thats not even there style when he looked bad. There’s only one P4P fighter inactive or not, FLOYD! FACT
just to let you know That Nevada Boxing Commission is required boxer to to take the test before the fight or sometimes after the fight
Mayweaters is not the commission. what do thinks of state of Nevada,there not stupid.
Manny is willing to take the tests up to fight night and in between rounds and after the fight, yet Floyd is still harping about it , he vowed to clean up the sport of boxing and done nothing after more than a year of Mosley’s fight. He is just a big joke, don’t believe anything he says.
@andersob silver
what would you expect? mayweather to fight someone who he believes is cheating without him taking the test? why shouldn’t he call on pacman to take the test? mayweather would have to take the test aswell it wouldn’t be one way. simple as take the test manny. when a bloke starts knocking people out who’s 5ft 6 and came threw 8 different weights, which as never happened before then questions have gotta be asked. TAKE THE TEST MANNY!
pac man needs to take the test simple!
@ No test No fight
Do you think “no test no fight” is a good stance really? Do you really think that deep inside Pacquiao and Arum gives a damn about PBF coming out of retirement when Pacquiao is already making $20-30 million X 2 per year without him?
It all comes down to splitting seconds in half when they are face to face.
Great article very non bias for a Mayweather fan. I agree and would just like to see thme box regardless of who wins. I like both fighters and would find myslef cheering for both depending on who was doing good or bad. I love boxing and hope we get to witness history between thes two outstanding men.
JMM is done. He has been fighting guys are are somewhat good but made to order for him.. Manny is just too strong and fast…And if Manny is steroids trained..he would unleash the “Pacmonster” on JMM.
Manny has taken so Manny steroids that soon enough he will start to look green…like HULK…
Are you willing to take a test t-shirts are on sale..lmfaou…
Three words….. TAKE THE TEST!! Stop fighting guys that were good 5 or 10 years ago…
A Pinoys taking steroids is forever young. Manny have fund the fountain of youth in the chemical labs. Why not take steroids and have youth and enerny…
EVERYBODY SHOULD WATCH ” MAYWEATHER AFTER DARK ” ON FIGHT HYPE.COM RIGHT NOW TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHY FLOYD IS NOT FIGHTING RIGHT NOW AND I WILL LEAVE IT AT THAT… I UNDERSTAND NOW AFTER WATCHING ALL 9 EPISODES LET THE MAN LIVE ALITTLE !!!!!
If the fight never occurs … the fans loses and BoxingNews24 wins – the debated who is better will go on forever on the site.
Good article nice to see some sense being written when talking about manny and floyd.
This is about LEGACY.
Regardless who Manny fights, he will allows be know as an underdog that reached the top and fought bigger men. Plus he won 8 title in 8 divisions. The footnote for Manny is he never fought Floyd because of a BLOOD TEST.
If Floyd does not fight again, he will be know for the best undefeated fighter that could be one of the best ever. The footnote for Floyd is “What If”, he never the best in his era and placed a road block, the BLOOD TEST, to fight Manny.
At the end, history will blame Floyd for the road block that prevent him to fight Manny
Both of them are multi-millionaires, it’s the fans who lose out; not the fighters.
Big Moe, I’m a hater…I’m not worth it.
If Pac-May bout will not happen Mayweather legacy will be questionable contrary to Pacquiao. If he retires his legacy is intact and has already a job waiting for him. I have said this many times before, My guess Pacquiao will fight only one bout in 2013 around month of May. Before the end of that year, he´ll be 35 years of age. Then he´ll stop and retire to start preparing on his candidacy for senatorial seat. After Marquez, I think he has only 2-3 more fights left. If Mayweather will not step up Pacquiao may fight Bradley next spring then Ortiz at the end of 2012. And I will not be surprised if he says yes to fight Martinez to an agreed catchweight before he retires.
Big moe great to have some sense on this site I think pbf will av a tune up then school pacman the best two fighters both living legends
Big Moe you are almost better then me when it come to this here boxing
pretty good article
great article!