Arum: Pacquiao can’t fight Mayweather on May 5th because we want a bigger arena
January 6th, 2012
By Chris Williams: In the latest news involving Bob Arum making excuses for why he can’t match Manny Pacquiao up with Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5th, Arum is now saying he can’t make the fight because the MGM Arena, where Mayweather wants to fight on May 5th, is simply too small and inadequate for the fight.
However, it’s unclear whether Mayweather will want to take a risk of waiting until the end of the month to take the fight when he’s scheduled to start serving out his 90 day jail sentence on June 1st. Arum pushing the fight until the very end of the month is like saying ‘no, we’re not interested in fighting you.’ Can you imagine Mayweather fighting on May 31st and having to go to jail in the morning to start doing his time? Good one, Arum.
Arum said to the Los Angeles Times “May 5 is out for us. It can’t happen because we want to explore the idea of getting a stadium/arena up on the streets of Las Vegas that can seat 40,000. The end of May is a possibility.”
It almost sounds like Arum is seeing this as a unilateral thing where he calls the shots instead of it being a mutual thing. That kind of thing might work when you’re dealing with guys that Pacquiao has a big advantage over in terms of popularity and pull, but Pacquiao and Arum can’t call shots in a fight against Mayweather. It’s going to be a democratic decision, not one guy making the rules and saying this is how it’s going to be.
Arum earlier was taking about Pacquiao’s cut as being the reason why Pacquiao couldn’t fight Mayweather on May 5th. The cut occurred last November and Arum doesn’t think Pacquiao would be ready to fight after six months of healing. I wonder how long he thinks Pacquiao needs for a small cut to heal? Arum doubts whether Pacquiao will be ready to start sparring for a fight against Mayweather in the early part of April and things that he may need to wait until the end of the month to begin sparring, meaning that a fight against Mayweather couldn’t occur until the end of May. An there it is again, Arum putting Mayweather right up to near the date where he starts serving his jail sentence.
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Was the Oscar vs mayweather fight held in a stadium??? No! And it was the highest grossing ppv ever! …..hey pacquiao please tell your fans, you want no parts of mayweather.
Arum is funny. mayweather is going to jail.. Pac is fighting in may now that may isnt going to jail yet oh we need it in june.
May 5th isnt long enough for the cut to heal, it would bleed from his first punch lmao thats 6 months but fighting a couple weeks after that the cut is healed to withstand any punch. all bs
in our times we can’t tell who is who because the fu…n top rank, golden boy and the rest wont work toguether . and thats why floyd and packiao are not even on the top 10 off all times!! mohamad ali never say no to a challenge??? sugar ray leonar never say he on esteroids, MANO DE PIEDRA DURAN NEVER SAY HE’S TO BIG, OR JOE LOUIS OR ROCKY MARCIANO!! LIKE SERGIO MARTINEZ SAY : THEY ARE NOT REAL CHAMPIONS!!! OR WHAT ABOUT CHAVEZ JUNIOR??? WTF????
Pacquaio will not be ready yet because of head butt from Marquez 28 stitches and all it takes just one punch to open and the fight will be stop. Just be patience and hoping both will come to an agreement. Mayweather 90 days jail time will be perfect for Pacquiao to ill. Then! Let’s get to rumble!
Thier are plenty big arenas,and ppv enthusiasts.
Niether fighter planned on making the fight happen. They both look like fools now. The fight would sellout so they might as well have it in dallas since its about money. Around 115,000 seats!
Arum just go away. I hate you for not making the fight.
lmao.
Flippy Pino Boys = Cowards.
dam paquido is one ugly man he looks likea sheep.
Donnie is totally correct great post. I’am not a fan of either fighter but mayweather has pit the ball to play in pacquaios court. And from what we know pacquiao like playing basketball
Paqiao needz to quit being scared of mayweather juz make the damn match happen. Stop being a punk n makei.g up excuses if pacman thinkz hez gud then he”ll do it.
More seats sold more $$$$$…..i thoyght floyd is all about the $$….n y do u ppl believe chris williams
1st needles,2 I got stomp in the foot,3rd the Reyes gloves, 4th I need a catch-weight because his too tall 5th I got leg cramps. Nothing but full of lame excuses .
This is wild. Pacquio the puppet. Get Bobs hand out your a*s and fight floyd anytime any place like you said. Dont blame Bob either because its not rape if you enjoy getting f*cked.
What ? hahaha! ..I can smell fear on pacquita and Arum . There you have it pactardz , theres your puss* idol making up lame excuses .
Floyd could fight in Vegas because ya’ll didn’t know thats the only place he’ll getaway INJECTING XYLOCAINE in his hands in order to get an upper hand of the fight!
Haha funny promoter!! what a joke! Bob Arum is fake and the worst promoter in history.
Mayweather isn’t going to the slammer. So excuse after excuse given by bob arum to not let Pacquiao fight mayweather. That is a bs excuse the mgm is a small venue get the hell out of here de la hoya and mayweather fought there and earned the most revenue like someone else posted. Mr.pacquiao tell your daddy that you want that fight and quit running from floyd.
And if Pac was as big of name as Mayweather, he would call his own shots. Manny Pacquiao= Bob Arum’s B#*HC!
cinco de Mayo is a Spanish word Floyy refers to a GBP bum fighter!!! not the Pac..
@BoxingDawg he likes vegas cus he lives there and its the capital of boxing where all the biggest fights are held.
Arum is a joke. Pac may want the fight, but he doesn’t have the balls to step up to old man river and demand the fight be made. All signs point to nobody in Pac’s camp wanting anything to do with Mayday
@jonnyl … Floyd like Vegas because Xylo–caine is legal!!!
@Charlton floyds already called pacquiao out in a few videos on for may 5th already
@Anonymous floyd has fought many times outside vegas mate its only been in the last five years or so that he has fought exclusively in vegas. and he lives in vegas ffs and its the capital of boxing its the best place for the p4p champ to fight
Arum knows best when it comes to making huge pay days. The old man is good like that. As for cris williams blah blah blah… Blah blah blah.
All Mayweather need to say is he wanted Pacquiao on May 5th regardless of what Arum is saying. We’ll see if Floyd can do that announcement.
ESPN put out a story written by Dan Raffael, all Chris Williams has done is add his normal rubbish. Firstly No memeber of team Floyd has approached Top Rank. Secondly and it is no fault of Pacquiao Arum is trying to play Floyd with the MGM situation, and as everyone knows Floyd will not fight outside of Nevada as his hand numbing injection is illegal in every other state. The game he is playing is wrong all he has to do is insist that Floyd is not allowed to use his hand numbing injection. As Pacquiao will be takin RBT its only fair.
I am a fan of Pacquiao but Bob needs to step back and let someone else take the reins for this fight, cos Floyd hates him and now half the world does too. Its not Pacquiao’s fault.
Arum knows Pac will get his A.s.s kicked so he makes excuses to not fight.
The cowboys stadium issue was mentioned when Mayweather called Pacquiao out again. It makes more sense to triple profits at the stadium too. But due to the circumstances, i dont see why cant money pick the venue this fight and Pac pick the venue for the rematch
the american justice system makes ammendments to try and get this fight on yet its still not gunna happen. unbelievable!! you could make this up
Delahoya mayweather didn’t need a stadium and it had the highest gate ever and highest pov of all time reality is arum does not want this fight floyd to announce who he faces next week hopefully its Martinez or cotto.
Most of you are to blind to see that both sides(Money Team & Pac Team) are playing the boxing world to the fullest. Both sides know they can make millions just by fighting the same old duds. Don’t you think its ironic for over two years the boxing world has been calling for this fight but all we get is excuses from both sides. Most of you are to bias to see the truth. Why should they fight each other when they can milk it for the low of 20 million a fight. You people need to stop being stupid. Its all about the money. They don’t care about the public!
Look who is running scared now when the chips are down.
I’m sick of this. The thing is when the fight dont happen Floyd fans blame Bob Arum (rightly so) however , for some reason even Pacman fans blame Floyd … not Arum? surely they see that it is Bob avoiding the fight. Tbh if u ask me your hero manny dont even want the fight cuz if he was such a good guy like you all make out .. he wouldnt demand 28m (even more than 3rd fight) against Marquez after getting beaten in the minds of many. Not only this but he would get rid of Bob or VOICE his opinions. never once has he said he wants to make the fight happen. Only ever : Il take to my promoter and see what he decides. If you ask me he only wants this fight as his last fight so if he loses (which he thinks he will) he will still go out with a secure legacy cuz Floyds ‘the best’ and if he gets lucky and wins .. then he goes out the best. Floyd would be his last fight .. hes just probably hoping Floyd slows down too.
Chris williams. ” its going to be a democratic decision , not one guy making the rules and saying how its going to be” ….so its ok for money to dictate when and where but if another makes a decision its ” another excuse”. You must have the definition of dictator and democratic mixed up.
This is crazy arums storys are now changing hourly.
No worries, even if Floyd can’t fight Pac, Floyd would still have a new title after he gets out of JAIL, the Title of: EX-CONVICT.
fight mayweather
pacquiao the ducker