Mayweather Sr.: Pacquiao doesn’t want to fight little Floyd

By Boxing News - 12/29/2011 - Comments

Image: Mayweather Sr.: Pacquiao doesn't want to fight little FloydBy Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Sr. has serious doubts that WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao ever really wanted to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. Floyd Sr. thinks Pacquiao is avoiding the fight to save himself from getting a beating from his son.

Speaking with boxingtalk.com, Mayweather Sr. said “I think Pacquiao don’t want this fight to happen anyway. Pacquiao knows that Lil Floyd will whoop hi. A blind man can see that. Lil Floyd is bigger than him, he’s faster than him, he’s slicker than him, he’s stronger than him, and has more knowledge than him…Pacquiao don’t have a chance in hell to beat Lil Floyd.”

Now if this a new situation where the two fighters were just now being talked about for a fight, I would disagree with Mayweather Sr. about Pacquiao not wanting to take the fight. However, it’s almost two years now and Pacquiao had the chance to make the fight happen last year when Mayweather asked him to take the tests for performance enhancing drugs. All Pacquiao had to do is agree to take the random blood tests up to two weeks before the fight and he would have fought Mayweather. Pacquiao wanted the cut off from the drug tests to stop 24 days before the fight, while was willing to agree to the testing to stop two weeks before the fight.

Mayweather actually wanted the testing to be done up until the day before the fight, but Pacquiao wanted the testing to stop well before the fight because he felt that having blood taken from him weakened him. But it was up to him. All he had to do was agree to the testing to be stopped two weeks before the fight and they would have fought. Instead Pacquiao and Arum went the other way and fought Joshua Clottey instead. So what does that tell you? I think Pacquiao didn’t want the fight, because it was there for him if he had agreed to the two week cut off. Wasn’t two weeks good enough to recover from having a tiny amount of blood removed?

I don’t think Pacquiao or his promoter wants that fight with Mayweather. Floyd Sr. says Arum doesn’t have much choice, feeling he’s got to make the fight happen soon. Floyd Sr. probably feels the pressure from the public is too much for Arum to ignore making the fight happen, but I don’t know that I agree. I think Arum can ignore the public for the remainder of Pacquiao’s career and still sleep at night. He’ll just keep making money with him by matching Pacquiao up against his Top Rank fighters and making big money every time out.



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