Mayweather tells Pacquiao: “Step up and fight me, Punk!”

By Boxing News - 01/10/2012 - Comments

Image: Mayweather tells Pacquiao: "Step up and fight me, Punk!"By Chris Williams: Sickened by what he sees as cowardice on Manny Pacquiao’s part by not standing up on his hind legs and agreeing to accept a fight on May 5th, World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. opened up on both barrels on the reluctant Pacquiao, saying on his twitter page today “Manny Pacquiao, I’m calling you out. Let’s fight on May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My jail sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up, Punk!”

Wow! I couldn’t have said it any better myself. Pacquiao has been led around by the nose for the past few years by his promoter Bob Arum, fighting the guys Arum wants him to fight and coming up with excuses not to fight Mayweather. There can’t be any more excuses now because they’ve all been used up by Pacquiao. Mayweather and Pacquiao should have fought two years ago but Pacquiao said he couldn’t fight unless the random blood testing for performance enhancing drugs had a cut off at an incredible 24 days before the fight with Mayweather. How it can be called random if one guy wants them to be completely stopped 3 ½ weeks before the fight is beyond me.

Recently, Arum has come up with a new batch of excuse for why Pacquiao can’t fight Mayweather, saying that Pacquiao’s plastic surgeon, who according to Yahoo sports is dating Arum’s step daughter, said that Pacquiao can’t begin sparring until April 1st. Arums says that makes it impossible for Pacquiao to fight Mayweather on May 5th. No second opinion from an outside doctor, I guess?

Besides that, Arum says that the MGM Grand is too small to hold the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight and it will cause a loss of $20 million from a bigger venue that he wants to have built. Additionally, Arum says that May 5th is too soon for the fight to be marketed correctly. The excuses are endless. The fight will never happen unless Pacquiao wants it to happen and forces his promoter to make the fight.



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