by Jason Alcairo: Now that the Floyd Mayweather Jr. camp has relented on blood testing procedures being handled by the USADA, one more and hopefully the final hurdle has been cleared for the fight to be finalized. You would think. Bob Arum, head of Top Rank, is seemingly starting to backtrack a bit on the stipulations the Pacquiao camp has been seeking. I can not stress this enough. I repeat. I CAN NOT stress this enough.
Bob, you may never read this.But the fans need you to know.
Stop. Talking. To. The. Media. With me so far? Stop talking to the media. Stop it.
Right now, Todd DuBoef is the one handling the negotiations. Todd is talking to Richard Schaefer working his ass off to clean up your verbal diarrhea. Freddy is the one who handles Manny’s training and knows him best. You are in Cabo San Lucas, probably wearing a smear of sun tan lotion over your nose and staying shaded as much as possible while screaming into your phone about how the Mayweather camp is bullying Manny and pushing him around. Now they’ve let up and we’re all excited to see the biggest fight of the last 20 years or so and you’re having a heart attack to try and correct everything that you think is wrong. But you aren’t helping. Please. Have a Mai Tai and sit this one out for a bit.
Manny, please drop the lawsuit by the way. It’s cool. Make the fight, take out your aggression out on Mayweather. Hit him so hard his dad is going to feel it. Please do this for us. Hell, I’m sure even your detractors will thank you for it just because it will mean the fight is really happening.
Freddy, get on the wire and tell everyone that things are cool and you guys are going to work out a time table like you requested. Come through for us.You want a piece of the Mayweathers and now you have it so get with Manny, find out what works, and tell them.
So, now that that’s out the way, I implore my fellow boxing fans, that whether you agree with me or not, don’t take anything Bob Arum says to be fact. He isn’t handling negotiations. Yes, it’s annoying. It’s very annoying. But do the fact checking necessary for a fight of this magnitude.It’s been marred in enough whiny cry baby hearsay rumors. I’m sure you’ll find that everyone,Bob Arum aside, is trying to move this along.
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