Deadlines thrown out window for Mayweather-Pacquiao mega-fight, says Koncz

By Chris Williams: Well it seems that Manny Pacquiao and his adviser Michael Koncz are finally coming to their senses about Pacquiao’s January 31st self-imposed deadline for Mayweather to “sign the contract” that still doesn’t yet exist.

Koncz says that the deadlines for their mega-fight has been dropped, and he doesn’t even want to talk about it anymore. Koncz says he’s willing to wait it out patiently until the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao negotiations are completed. Koncz feels that Mayweather is sincere about wanting to fight Pacquiao.

It’s good to know that Pacquiao and Koncz are ready to finally drop their January 31st deadline, because it we only have one day left before the end of the month. It would be so sad if Pacquiao were to walk away from the Mayweather negotiations again like he did six years ago when the two fighters first attempted to negotiate a fight in 2009.

Pacquiao had a chance to make a lot of loot in that fight, as Mayweather had agreed to a 50-50 deal. Pacquiao could have easily made $100 million for that fight, but instead he chose to walk out on the negotiations in order to fight Joshua Clottey.

“I don’t want to talk about it (deadline) anymore. If it happens, it happens; if it don’t happen, it don’t happen,” said Konz to Spin.ph on Friday. “We’re not going to set (deadlines) or cast it in stone. We’ve established a good relationship with Floyd. I expect that something will be done sooner, I am not concerned with deadlines.”

Koncz now believes the fight is going to happen after he met with Mayweather during and after the recent Miami Heat game this week. Koncz knows now that Mayweather absolutely wants the fight.

Pacquiao’s deadline was a self-defeating thing that wasn’t needed in the first place, but it was so not surprising that he pulled that trick out of his hat because his promoter Bob Arum gave Mayweather a deadline in their first negotiations in 2009 and it failed miserably.

Normally a person learns from their mistakes and don’t make the same mistakes a second time, but in this case Pacquiao didn’t. As Edmund Burke once said, “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”

How Pacquiao could not learn from his past mistakes with the deadline is hard to understand, because he repeated the same mistake the second time around. He’s just lucky that he bumped into Mayweather at the Miami Heat game this week, because if they hadn’t seen each other, I don’t think the negotiations would have taken a positive direction turn.