Arum: Mayweather is still the Plan A for Pacquiao’s next fight
January 17th, 2012
By Chris Williams: Believe it or not, but Bob Arum is saying that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the main guy that he’s trying to get for his fighter Manny Pacquiao’s next fight.
Arum said to RingTV “Floyd Mayweather is the Plan A. And one of those other four [Timothy Bradley, Miguel Cotto, Lamont Peterson and Juan Manuel Marquez] guys is the Plan B. Our first priority is to see if a Mayweather fight can be made, then everything else will still fall into place.”
Yeah, right; I’ll believe that when I see it. I highly doubt that Mayweather is the top priority but I hope Arum can surprise people by actually putting in a good effort to make the fight happen.
The fact that Arum is still talking about Mayweather tells me that Pacquiao must have told him that he wants the Mayweather fight next when Arum and Pacquiao met recently in the Philippines to pick out his next fight. However, just because Pacquiao may have told Arum to make the Mayweather fight doesn’t mean that he absolutely has to.
All Arum has to do is drag his feet and stall out the negotiations by saying this or that, and then he can come back to Pacquiao afterwards when the negotiations fail and say something like ‘See, I tried, but these people don’t want the fight.’ Arum can then go ahead and match Pacquiao up with the fighter that he previously had designs on, someone like Top Rank fighter Miguel Cotto or Timothy Bradley.
Erik Morales targeting Juan Manuel Marquez
WBC light welterweight champion Erik Morales (52-7, 36 KO’s) is looking to take on Juan Manuel Marquez (52-6-1, 39 KO’s) in 2012 if Morales can first get by #1 World Boxing Council challenger Danny Garcia (22-0, 14 KO’s) on March 24th in Houston, Texas.
Morales has been dreaming of a fight with Marquez since last year, no doubt realizing how much attention and money can be made with this fight. It sounds like a great fight, right? Well, Marquez has been cool to the idea because he’s more interested in facing IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson or WBO champion Timothy Bradley, both of whom are considered better than the 35-year-old Morales by a lot of boxing fans.
Morales seems to be making a big mistake of looking past an opponent by eying a fight with Marquez. Morales has a lot on his plate to worry about with the 23-year-old unbeaten Garcia in March and he’s more than good enough to beat Morales unless he’s able to pull out some of his old magic from the past to beat this guy. I personally see Morales losing this fight, and once he’s beaten, he can pretty much forget all about a fight against Marquez.
He’s not going to get him to take the fight with him just for the sake of putting together an old timers fight. Marquez is more focused on trying to get a big money rematch with Manny Pacquiao. Morales needs to try and beat Garcia and then start looking at what’s next instead of the other way around.
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ALL I KNOW IS, THE RANDOM BLOOD TEST BEFORE THE FIGHT IS A BIG TRAP FOR MANNY PACQUIAO, NO MORE NO LESS.
BLOOD TEST OF BOTH FIGHTER SHOULD BE DONE IN THE RING AFTER THE END OF THE BELL FOR THE SAFETY OF FIGHTERS. BUT WHY BEFORE THE FIGHT? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? IN MY OWN PERSONAL OPPINION, MANNY PACQUIAO MAY FIND IT HARD TO BEAT FLOYD MAYWEATHER IF BLOOD TEST IS PERFORMED BEFORE THE FIGHT. IT MAY SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE MANNY’S STRENGTH BASED FROM PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IN A FIGHT WITH ERIK MORALES WHEN MANNY FACED HIS 3RD DEFEAT AS PROFESSIONAL BOXER IN HIS CAREER.
Mayweather had the MGM under contract before the Pacquaio fight with Marquez, so he couldn’t have known the outcome of that fight. Mayweather’s goal since coming out of retirement 3 years has not changed at all and that is to fight Pacquiao.
Manny Pacquiao’s showdown against Juan Marquez is hard earned and more decent win than Mayweather’s cheap win over Victor Ortiz by comparison.
I AM JUST WONDERING WHY FLOYD MAYWEATHER IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO FIGHT MANNY PACQUIAO BELIEVING THAT HE CAN DEFEAT HIM EASILY BECAUSE OF POOR PERFORMANCE AGAINST JUAN MARQUEZ. BUT WHEN MANNY PACQUIAO WAS DEMOLISHING HIS OPPONENTS BY BIG WIDE MARGIN IN AN EXCITING FIGHT, FLOYD MAYWEATHER KEEPS HIDING AGAINST EVEN PACMAN’S SHADOW. LOOKS LIKE HE IS BEING PUSHED BY ARMY OF HARDENED SUPPORTERS AND FOLLOWERS.
FLOYD MAYWEATEHER SI THE KING OF TWEEEET TWEEEEET TWEEEET HE SOUND LIKE BIRD.TWEEEEEEEEET FLOYD TWEEEEEEEEEEEEET FLOYD KING OF TWEEEET TWEEEEET.IM GOING MY JAILCELLLLLLLLLLLL.TWEEEEEET TWEEEEEETTTTTT……
Step up to the challenge, or shut the hell up.
As far as I can sense Manny Pacquiao is most willing to confront Floyd Mayweather whether win or lose. What is most obvious is the prize money that runs in millions of dollars. The fight would eventually arranged in the coming months against Mayweather if the stumbling block is fixed. Secondly Manny wants to prove his fame to rekindle because of below par performance against Juan Manuel Marquez.
Arum says so under pressure from Pacman, who said he wants to fight Mayweather, no one else. But deep in heart Arum knows Mayweather wants no part of Pacman and is just using cheap talks.
If Pacman read this and so many filipinos hates him,for sure he’ll change his mind.Pacman will lost trust to filipino people.Probably he’ll retire and resign as congressman and doesn’t care about filipinos anymore.He’s rich and he can just relax with his family forever.Why care anyway.lol
it aint gonna happen may 5th thats a fact!!!!
@ Foreal
You failed again. You are proving to be a 100% chump. May 5th was set up by Fraud for a fight without talking to Pacs team that date is meaningless. You are just ignorant and I will not spend anymore time on a fanboy like you who is unable to think outside the BOX. Go make up your own version of events as per usual
Hahahaha!…Again,somebody was using my name.This only shows how deeply he’s hurt with all my comments.And surely this is the most jealous guy towards Pacman.He never forget my name anyway…that’s good.c’mon continue making silly and idiotic comments by using my name yellow rotten pea brain.Bwahahahahaha!
If he really wants the fight, why insist on May 5th? Why can’t it be any day in May. What’s the bog difference. If it’s not May 5th, there is no fight? If that is so, he is not really up to it.
Where did all the Phillipino fans of Pacman go? They dissappeared after Marquez beat him.
@ Annonymous
It is clear, you have run out of excuses or simply, your reasoning is below par. This is the moment Pacquiao needs to punish Floyd. we want to see Pacquiao beat-up the arrogant Floyd. Lets get it on!
@ Foreal
And why do you want the fight May 5th? Because Fraud pre booked it, with out naming his opponent? OR so he can use hi illegal numbing injection?
There is no way if you or I were in Pacquiao’s shoes you would just bend to the will of Maynever. And if you say yes you would it means you are very dum. RBT Frauds, Late May Pacs. And remember Fraud fought before Pacquiao and Pac went 12 rounds and got cut
u r all stupid…
We want this fight on the 5th of May, no more excuses. Time is up!
Come on Arum, time is over for you and your gravy train. Reality now downs!
The squids are up in the corner. I can see the squinted eyed small man shivering.
You do know Arum is the one that have too come up with $120 million dollars to make this fight, So like I said before noway in hell Arum going to make this fight in the MGM Grand next to only 16,800 fans..Stop right all this tweets and bla bla cause this fight won’t happen on May 5
Of course it’s business!!! But Arum will not make this fight happen because he want more to cash in from Manny PACMAN Pacquiao against other opponent.