Dan Rafael: Mayweather’s jail sentence let’s Arum off the hook
December 26th, 2011
By Chris Williams: ESPN writer Dan Rafael believes that WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, was never really interested in matching his cash cow fighter Pacquiao up with unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the recent 90-day jail sentence that Mayweather received gave Arum the excuse not to match Pacquiao up with Mayweather.
I think I agree with Rafael, only I don’t see Arum risking having the gravy train halted by putting Pacquiao back in with Marquez for a risky fourth fight; not when Pacquiao needed a gift decision to beat Marquez last month. Nah, we won’t see Arum risk having Pacquiao get exposed again, so instead it’s going to be Pacquiao vs. one of Arum’s Top Rank fighters like Miguel Cotto or Timothy Bradley.
One of those guys is likely going to get the fight. If Arum does go outside of Top Rank to hunt down a beatable opponent for Pacquiao, it’ll probably be Lamont Peterson. He’s perfect, because he’s not too quick and he’s not too powerful either. Pacquiao can beat this guy fighting at only 50% capacity. It won’t be pretty but Manny will get the win.
But, yeah, I got the feeling that Arum didn’t want to risk his cash cow against Mayweather as far back as last year when the negotiations with Mayweather went up in smoke despite Mayweather agreeing to the weight penalty and the 50-50 purse split. When the negotiations went into a deadlock about Pacquiao wanting a 24 day cut off for the random drug testing for performance enhancing drugs, Arum quickly matched up with one of his stable fighters Joshua Clottey instead of sticking it out a little longer and trying to find a middle ground.
I think Mayweather would have agreed to a 17 day cut off and the fight would have been made, but Arum ended the negotiations and matched Pacquiao with Clottey for an awful fight. That told me that Arum didn’t want to risk having his fighter Manny get possibly beat by Mayweather and ruining the money flow. You have to remember Pacquiao has been making huge bucks on pay per view no matter who Arum matches him up against. With big money coming in no matter who Arum matches Pacqiao up against, why would he want to risk losing the revenue flow by putting Pacquiao in with Mayweather for one big payday fight when Pacquiao can get the same money by fighting two soft opponents.It makes sense if you’re Pacquiao’s promoter. Arum probably knew what he had in Pacquiao a long time ago in terms of the Filipino’s raw but limited talent. Why would Arum want to risk the gravy train ending prematurely by putting Pacquiao in with Mayweather?
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USASAVEDUK
Anonymous – you somebody bit#h on here, mine lil girl. You so dumb you dont have a name and dont know what mine means. Stick to boxing, which you know absolutely nothing about!
Posted December 26, 20
you say brits are dumb yet you talk english ? now whos the dumb fxxx
It’s gonna be Paquiao-Cotto because Paquiao, Mayweather and Cotto are the top PPV sellers so they are the ones that will make a lot of money by fighting each other
@mo that has already been said…im tellin all the haters that say pac only fights top rank fighters that floyd does exactly the same but he gets nothing over it…when its pacquiao u guys talk like hes the only one doin it…..BE FAIR IS MY POINT…BEFORE U POINT THE FINGER AT PAC LOOK AT FLOYD!….N NOBODY IS SCARED…THATS JUST UR DREAM…
I believe if Manny wanted to fight Floyd that fight would have happened already!! It’s not about being the best, it’s about the MONEY!! Manny and Arum are trying to maximize their money before he’s EXPOSED!! Not to say that Manny isn’t great, but Floyd was going to make him look terrible, (It happens- (Styles makes fights)
would LOL if bradley got pac fight and khan got didnt get mayweather fight hahahah
@ USASAVEDUK
Hmm I know boxing, your just a dirt bag redneck who has incestual relations with every member of his family.
And how dumb do you look for telling me I have no name when you have a made up name that makes NO sense what so ever. I will tell you my name its Yan. I guess yours is FLOYDian Slip
@WAR
and yea its the same with pac marquez had to sign to toprank to get a fight so pacs last fights were
JMM(TR)
MARGARITO(TR)
MOSLEY(Promotional free agent)
clottey(TR)
and COTTO(TR)
and now theyre looking at pac cotto-2 or pac marquez4… mayweather will be out before june why not wait for mayweather? arum and pac are scared plain and simple
i hate cris william
lmao Pinoys are so stupid they confuse Jail with Prison.
ahahah. Such an ignorant race of cowards.
This guys got a point This could of been made ages ago…there’s politics on both sides Mayweather himself wants to protect his unbeaten record and maybe Arum has too much say over Pacman which is why it has’nt happened…you get the impression when pacsmans asked he does’nt answer with conviction like he has to think about what to say this tells you that Arum has a lot of power over Pacman and he is’nt going to mind really if he’s making millions and Arum seems to be getting it right…where as Mayweather is more control of himself and has more say on himself and he himself has’nt really wanted the fight as he wants to protect that 0…
Mayweather is going to be somebody’s b1tch in jail.
Let me show u nùthuggers something…since his “come back” hes had 3 fights
Mayweather vs Marquez(GBP)
Mayweather vs Mosley(GBP)
mayweather vs Ortiz(GBP)…
Y DONT ANY OF U POINT THAT OUT!!??…..LMAO….CLOWNS…ALL OF U
@ USASAVEDUK
With a name like that you would of thought you might be able to string a sentence together. But you can not.
I will tell you who saved the USA it was the Terrorists.
Your lack of intelligence speaks volumes for your character, which is gutter deep.
@ Chris Williams
Opinion opinion opinion. And coming from a VVanker like you it means less the the idiot aboves opinion
Fat Dan is 100% right.
floyd can still fight in may, depends on if he gets out on good behavior or if his sentence allows him work release if so he can still train.
do not be surprised if mayweathers camp continues with a may fight we have not heard from them yet but work release is a possibility since he already has a date.
Floyd jail sentence let’s him off the hook, He choose to be jailed just to avoid Pacquiao, what a coward!
Pacquioa needs to stop taking peds, as this is ruining boxing. It is clear to all when you refuse to be properly tested and sue any one for bringing it up, that you (with balloon sized head) are on peds!!!
You can be sure of some thing, Pacs next fight will be another senior citizen, a top rank fighter, some one with a name that is no longer great, some one coming off a brutal loss and a catch weight.
Pac will never take a risk at all.
When is the last time Pac beat a prime fighter that was ranked high and was undefeated or coming off a sensational victory?
@anonymous
LMAO
maynever’s jail time is caused by the Pacman, coward floyd, he almost hang himself just to avoid Pacman, idiots!
free floyd
Like I said…
Before Floyd’s sentencing: “Well…umm..probably can’t fight in May…umm…he’s got…ugh…a scratch..yeah..pretty bad scratch…gonna take a while to heal…at least 6 months…dunno when we’re gonna be ready to fight….umm..emmm..”
After Floyd’s sentencing:
“Hey! We gotta get an opponent! Chop chop! Let’s go! Who’s next?? What? Scratch? What are you talking about?? Ohhhh THAT scratch..can you believe it? We put Neosporin on it and slapped a band-aid…BOOM! Healed. Couldn’t believe it ourselves, it was a miracle. We’re ready to go, can’t wait for Floyd!
I hate Arum