By Sean McDaniel: Despite what promoter Bob Arum and trainer Freddie Roach have been saying recently about talks are still ongoing between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, it’s now being reported by writer David Mayo of the Grand Rapids Press, that isn’t the case. According to Mayo, the advisor for Mayweather, Leonard Ellerbe, is saying as of Friday of last week that there are no talks between Mayweather and Pacquiao’s teams and that Mayweather “has no interest in discussing boxing, just five weeks after whipping [Shane] Mosley.”
Well, if there aren’t any talks between Mayweather and Pacquiao’s two sides, then why is Arum and Roach still talking about the negotiations still ongoing? When two sides aren’t speaking, doesn’t that mean that negotiations aren’t going on? I don’t know what to believe now. I know Arum, Roach and Pacquiao really want the fight with Mayweather but they might need to wait around a little before they hear anything.
If Mayweather doesn’t make a move, then they need to look in another direction and find a suitable replacement opponent as fast as they can. Luckily for Arum, he has a lot of fighters in his Top Rank stable he can substitute for Mayweather. The bad news is none of them would likely bring in even half the revenue and excitement as Mayweather would bring to a fight against Pacquiao.
This past week, Mayweather said that he would be taking one to two years off from boxing so that he could devote his time to his Floyd Mayweather Jr. foundation. Roger Mayweather has reportedly said that Floyd will be still fighting, so I don’t know who to believe among those two. I would assume Floyd would be the one to listen to because he has usually does what he says going to do. But it’s hard to imagine that Mayweather would want to walk away from a fight against Pacquiao that would bring him $40 million or more for just one fight. That’s a huge amount of money to walk away from and I can’t believe that Mayweather would turn his back on that kind of money.
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