By Chris Williams: Michael Koncz, the close personal adviser for wealthy Filipino star Manny Pacquiao, says he looked Floyd Mayweather Jr in the eyes last night when the two of them met in a Miami hotel room with Pacquiao, and he could tell that Mayweather is truly sincere about wanting to fight Pacquiao on May 2nd.
Koncz approached Mayweather earlier in the evening when he was at the Miami Heat game, and he asked him to meet with Pacquiao for a brief introduction.
Before that, the two fighters had never met each other in person. During the meeting, Mayweather towered over the shorter and smaller Pacquiao, and it looked like the two guys didn’t belong in the same weight class due to Pacquiao’s lack of size.
Pacquiao is still game for the fight even though he’ll be smaller than Mayweather. However, there won’t be a catch-weight handicap for Pacquiao in this fight like there was for him against Miguel Cotto, Oscar De La Hoya and Antonio Margarito.
“Floyd met with us and how can I say he’s not sincere. I believe he’s sincere,” Koncz said via Fighthype.com. “I don’t have anything to contradict the fact that he’s not sincere. We looked eye to eye, we talked and I truly believe he’s sincere and wants to make the fight happen…It’s evident by his actions last night and I have no reason to doubt that…He is sincere and that he wants the fight to happen.”
This is actually kind of funny. Koncz is really into the concept of analyzing whether Mayweather is sincere or not about wanting to fight his employer Pacquiao. I wonder what Mayweather’s take was when he looked at Koncz and Pacquiao’s eyes to tell if they were sincere or not about really wanting the fight?
It is kind of troubling that Pacquiao has been asking Mayweather to sign a contract that still doesn’t exist yet. How does Mayweather sign a contract that still hasn’t been created? Staring Mayweather down to rate his sincerity is a waste of a time. If Mayweather wasn’t interested then he wouldn’t have wasted his time by being the one to start the negotiations in the first place.
At any rate, Koncz further said that he’ll be looking to fix up the broadcasting issues and that he’d be making some phone calls on Thursday to take care of the problem. Just precisely what Koncz can do to push the two cable giants Showtime and HBO to speed up their negotiations is anyone’s guess.
I’m not too sure that they’re going to speed up their negotiations just because Koncz is putting some heat under their backsides. What can Koncz say to HBO and Showtime to make them speed up their negotiations? I guess he can threat to have Pacquiao pull out of the fight, but he’s kind of already done that with his January 31st deadline.
Pacquiao and Koncz can move the deadline up a couple of days and make it a 24 hour deadline like the one Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum gave to Mayweather during their first negotiations in 2009. That one worked real good, didn’t it? Mayweather moved on and the two of them ended up not facing each other.
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