Mayweather not to blame for Pacquiao-Mayweather fight failing to materialize

By Boxing News - 11/07/2011 - Comments

Image: Mayweather not to blame for Pacquiao-Mayweather fight failing to materializeBy Robert Elmore: People are never happy with Mayweather and they are quick to blame him for the mega fight not happening between he and Manny Pacquiao. But a lot of people have come around to see the games Top Rank are playing. Rather than talk about the second and third negotiations, (because it should never gone that far) I like to give facts about the first set of negotiations. The fight should have happened in 2009. This article is no way an attempt to dis Pac and the Gang or side with Mayweather. But Top Rank has to take some blame in the mega fight not getting made. These were the request.

Pac: He got the glove size, the ring size, the weight, the venue, the ten million dollar for every pound over weight penalty, and a 50/50 split was agreed upon. This was shocking because May said he would never agree to such a split. Mayweather’s request: A random blood test. That’s six to one for Pac. Very true; neither request by either fighter has ever been requested in their previous fights. But people argue Pac’s 10 mill request was legit because Mayweather had come in two pounds overweight in his fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. But they have a commission to take care of those penalties when a fighter comes in overweight. Keith Kizer of the NSYC over saw that whole process. He made sure May forked over $650,000 big ones for those two pounds (for it was 300,000 per pound that were to be paid by either fighter if they came in over weight).

There have been other fights where the commission has deducted monies from fighters for coming in over weight. Here are a few. Sergio Mora vs. Shane Mosley; Mora coughed up $57,000 of his $285,000 purse for coming in 3 pounds over weight (George Dodd, executive officer of the California Athelitic Commission handled that case). Carlos Baldomir vs Saul Alvarez; Baldimer came in at 153 pounds instead the contracted 151 pounds. He was penalized 20% of $60,000; Saul Alvarez vs. Matthew Hatton. Saul came in 1.8 pounds overweight. He paid 35k to the CALC and another 10% went to Hatton.

One thing I can tell you out of those examples that a commission has never taken 10 million dollars from any fighter for coming in overweight. So Pac’s request was of a PERSONAL request. Now as far as fighters that caught using steroids, the list is as follows: James Toney, Roy Jones Orlando Salido; Fernando Vargas; Cruz Carbajal, Omar Nino (caught). And with so many stars in other sports being exposed, Mayweather’s request is not far fetched. But his request too was PERSONAL, but both are legitimate.

FT: Fact is that Money said yes to all Manny’s six requests and Manny said no to Mayweather’s one. And it was Bob Arum who said the fight was off in the first set of negotiations; Not team Mayweather. And as far as Arum talking about May’s negotiations process, wasn’t it Top Rank that double booked Texas Stadium and the MGM Grand last year without announcing an opponent a week after the May/Mosley bout? And wasn’t Top Rank that worked on a deal with Marquez while Pac trained for Mosley? Top Rank that closed a deal with Marquez seven days before Pac even got in the ring with Mosley. These are the facts.



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