By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum is an unhappy camper right about now because of superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr not caving in to sign a contract for a fight against Arum’s Top Rank stable fighter Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd.
Arum says that they’ve already accepted the terms and conditions that Mayweather asked for in the contract, and he doesn’t understand why Mayweather hasn’t signed his part of the contract.
Since Arum, Pacquiao and his adviser Michael Koncz are the only ones talking right now, we only get to hear what their side is saying. Obviously, there’s two sides of the equation, so if just one side is talking and not Mayweather, you have to figure that something’s not right with the contract.
“Everybody knows that Manny accepted the terms that were negotiated for the fight, including CBS and his management with Al Haymon, but Floyd Mayweather once again throw the fight because he’s a chicken,” Arum told Azteca Sports at http://www.aztecadeportes.com/notas/box-azteca/2015-01-22-18-16/mayweather-es-una-gallina–bob-arum/.
I couldn’t characterize a legend like Mayweather as a chicken. I would call him a smart businessman. He’s not going to sign a contract that he sees as being flawed and still in need of work. It would be a mistake on Mayweather’s part for him to sign off on a contract that isn’t in his benefit.
Mayweather isn’t stupid. So it doesn’t matter how much complaining and badgering Arum, Koncz and Pacquiao do to try and pressure Mayweather to sign the contract, if the man doesn’t see the contract as being 100% ready, he’s not going to sign the contract.
If Arum wants to match Pacquiao against Khan, then he should go ahead and pull him out of the negotiations so he can make that fight. Of course, if he does that it’ll be just like when Arum pulled Pacquiao out of the negotiations with Mayweather in 2009 in order to have him fight one of his Top Rank stable fighters in Joshua Clottey.
The fight brought in disappointing PPV numbers compared to what Pacquiao could have made had he simply stuck it out in the Mayweather negotiations and agreed to the full random blood testing that Mayweather was asking for.
The end of the month deadline that Pacquiao has set for the Mayweather fight will likely cause the fight not to get made, and it’ll be the third time that Pacquiao has blown a chance to make huge money against Mayweather.
At the end of Pacquiao’s career, he’ll have wasted a lot of chances to get huge money against Mayweather. That’s why Pacquiao needs to be more patient and look to get help with his negotiating team, because obviously he’s not doing something right. I believe he needs to add some skilled negotiators to his team, and he definitely needs to have them in charge fully without him butting in and setting deadlines.
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