Mayweather still not interested in Pacquiao fight

By Boxing News - 05/12/2014 - Comments

floyd002By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) says he thinks the main reason why Manny Pacquiao is looking to get a fight against him right now is because he needs help with his tax problems, and he doesn’t feel like he needs to give Pacquiao the fight. Mayweather is the king right now, and suspects the reasons why Pacquiao wants to fight him.

Mayweather says he offered the fight to Pacquiao on even terms in a 50/50 deal, and all he wanted him to do was to agree to random blood testing and random urine testing. When Pacquiao failed to agree to those terms, the fight failed to take place. Mayweather says that was Pacquiao’s golden opportunity to get a fight with him in 2010, and instead he chose not to accept the conditions.

In an interview before his fight against Marcos Maidana, Mayweather revealed that he hadn’t softened his views about Pacquiao having blown his chance at a fight against him by failing to agree to the terms that Mayweather was asking during their initial negotiations four years ago. Mayweather didn’t mention in the interview the $40 million that he offered Pacquiao for a fight against him in 2012. Had Pacquiao agreed to that fight, he’d have received a career high payday. But the money that he’d have made in that fight would have nothing compared to the huge cash that Pacquiao walked away from in the 2010 when he and Mayweather couldn’t agree on the drug testing that Mayweather wanted for the fight. The fight would have made huge, huge money for both fighters, and Pacquiao likely would have made better than $50 million.

“I don’t need him, he needs me,” Mayweather said. “Now he’s begging – ‘Do it for the fans.’ I fight my fights for Floyd Mayweather. Manny Pacquiao had his chance. All I asked him is two things: Random blood tests and random urine tests. But I see what’s going on now when uncle Sam is on your back. He’s trying to do anything. We already seen that he can be out-boxed. We already seen that he can be knocked out. His pay-per-view numbers don’t do what my pay-per-view numbers do…He has to take orders; I give orders.”

The only way that Mayweather will change his mind about a fight against Pacquiao is if he does everything that Mayweather asks him to do. If that means he needs to wait until his contract expires from Top Rank then so be it. If it means that Pacquiao will need to beat some solid fighters not named Tim Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez, then so be it. Pacquiao needs to get a solid win over some really good fighters without a catch weight, like Miguel Cotto or Sergio Martinez. Fighting Bradley and Marquez yet again probably won’t get the job done. Above all, Pacquiao needs to listen to what Mayweather asks and do what he says if he wants the fight, because what Pacquiao has been doing hasn’t been working.



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