Don’t drink the Bob Arum Kool-Aid about Mayweather being afraid of Pacquiao

By Boxing News - 02/11/2014 - Comments

floyd#23By Frank Gaskins: Once again we are back to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum selling the public a story on how Floyd Mayweather Jr. is afraid of Manny Pacquiao and once again it seems the public is buying it. Arum recently stated that Floyd Mayweather (45-0, 26 KO’s) is vulnerable to left handed fighters which is why Floyd is reluctant to face Pacquiao.

The reasoning behind this theory is because it is believer that Mayweather has struggled against left handed fighters such as Zab Judah and DeMarcus Corley with them landing a few clean shots and winning a few rounds against him, but the facts are that Mayweather still clearly won those fights and by wide margins might I add.

Arum said to ESPN: “Don’t you understand why the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight won’t and can’t happen? I promoted Mayweather for over 10 years. One thing I learned over those years is that Mayweather doesn’t like or won’t fight southpaws. Why? Because his whole style is geared for a right-handed fighter. And to compound that if the southpaw is really fast and moves, that would give Mayweather and his style a lot of problems, and it would really jeopardize Mayweather’s record of an undefeated fighter. That’s why the fight isn’t happening.”

Verses Zab Judah Mayweather won by Unanimous Decision with scores of 119-109, 116-112, 117-111, verses DeMarcus Corley, Mayweather won by Unanimous Decision with scores of 119-107, 118-108, 119-108. Actually Mayweather’s toughest fights were with Oscar DeLa Hoya, Miguel Cotto and Jose Luis Castillo, (Shane Mosley landed the cleanest and hardest punch Mayweather has ever taken), all these fighters are orthodox boxers.

Mayweather himself stated that Emanuel Augustus was one of his toughest fights and he too fights orthodox. We have to go with what the facts are and not what we are lead to believe. I would love to see Mayweather vs Pacquiao just like everyone else, but it’s just not going to happen and NOT because either fight is afraid of the other.



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