By Dan Ambrose: Bob Arum, the promoter for Manny Pacquiao, is anxious to try and line up a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Pacquiao for April 16th next year at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Arum has already booked the Grand for Pacquiao’s next fight, be it Mayweather or someone else like 39-year-old fading star Shane Mosley.
Although Arum wants Mayweather to be Pacquiao’s next opponent, he’s failed to speak up and accept the offer for a fight. The problem is that Mayweather has some serious legal problems he’s dealing with and he still doesn’t even have a court date. With these legal hassles, Mayweather could possibly do a lot of time in prison. It may be that there never will be a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao if Floyd ends up serving time in prison.
In an article at the LA Times, Golden Boy Promotions CEO, the promoter for Mayweather, said “I don’t care how much money this is [referring to the money that Mayweather and Pacquiao would make for their mega fight]. There’s no price on doing things the right way, and if Floyd wants to let this legal process play out before he agrees to the fight, I support him.”
Arum wants to line up an opponent with for Pacquiao quickly, but it looks like he’s going to have to select Mosley instead of Mayweather, because Floyd obviously has too much on his plate right now to commit to a fight with Pacquiao. You can’t blame Mayweather for wanting to wait until he finds out what’s going to happen with his case. Trying to train for a bout as important as the Pacquiao bout without knowing what lay ahead of him in his future would be a terrible distraction for Mayweather. It would be nearly impossible to train properly no matter how much money that he might win in the fight by beating Pacquiao.
Mayweather could end up doing a lot of time in prison if he’s convicted of the charges against him and he needs to be left alone to work out his legal case before he can think of a fight with Pacquiao. Before all these problems came up, Mayweather was taking the rest of 2010 off after easily beating Shane Mosley last May. Things changed when Mayweather got into some problems with the mother of his children. Now, he’s got his hands tied up with this legal mess for the time being.
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