By Manuel Perez: Wow, I thought I had heard them all, but comments from Floyd Mayweather’s uncle Jeff Mayweather tonight from sports.inquirer, in which Mayweather explained that Floyd may still fight Manny Pacquiao next, even if Manny loses to Miguel Cotto on November 14th, just seems weird to me. “Just as long as he doesn’t lose in a devastating manner it would still be the biggest fight out there,” Jeff Mayweather said.
Man, I don’t know how to take that comment. Does this mean that Floyd Mayweather will side step around Cotto to face the smaller, lesser threat in Pacquiao in a move to avoid taking a risky fight with Cotto or is this just a money thing? I’m cool with it, I guess, if this is just a financial thing because Mayweather has to do what he has to do to get the most money for each fight.
But, if Mayweather is looking for an easier fight against Pacquiao, then that doesn’t sit right with me and I see it as some kind of timid weakness on his part. I’ve never thought of Mayweather as being a ducker of fighters, but it seems kind of unfair that he would still move ahead to fight Pacquiao if the Filipino loses to Cotto. How would the public take that message?
If they’re ignorant of it, I guess it’ll fly but some may not see it as a good move because it rewards the wrong fighter. If Pacquiao loses to Cotto, it should be Miguel who wins the Mayweather sweep stake, not a beaten Pacquiao. What this means is that if Floyd Mayweather is thinking of fighting Pacquiao no matter what happens in Manny’s fight with Cotto, then it’s up to Cotto to make sure he beats Pacquiao so badly that Mayweather couldn’t in his right mind fight Pacquiao without being looked at as a cherry picker.
If Cotto knocks Pacquiao out or beats him really badly through 12 rounds, it puts a lot of pressure on Mayweather to have to fight Cotto. Sure, he could turn around and fight Pacquiao regardless of how badly be gets beaten by Cotto, but he’ll look kind of silly by doing it.
Mayweather already has some people wondering about him for fighting Ricky Hatton, a light welterweight, and then Juan Manuel Marquez, a lightweight, in his last two fights. By skipping over Cotto if he comes out on top in his Pacquiao bout, it will send the wrong message to people and make it seem like Mayweather is afraid to fight opponents his own size.
Maybe he doesn’t care what people think. If that’s the case, more power to him, I hope he enjoys getting Cotto’s sloppy seconds. But it looks bad from my stand point. How can Mayweather turn around and fight Pacquiao if Manny takes the beating of his life against Cotto.
Then is some weird crap. I don’t even know how to even begin to understand something like that. I don’t know how a fight like that could make money if Pacquiao is coming off a knockout loss to Cotto. Who would want to see that garbage? I mean, you know who’s going to win, don’t you?
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