By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. gave Bob Arum the names of his representatives today in order for him to stop making excuses about not knowing who to contact for him to start putting together a fight between his No.1 fighter Manny Pacquiao and Mayweather.
May 5th is the date that Mayweather wants the fight to take place and the venue is the MGM Grand. Arum has to work from there or come out just refuse to put the fight together.
Mayweather had some interesting things to say about Pacquiao on his twitter today, saying “May 5th is Pacquiao a** whooping day. First they say I’m ducking the fight [with Pacquiao], but now it seems like I’m begging for the fight. What is going on?”
What’s going on is Mayweather is exposing Arum and Pacquiao by showing what that neither of them seems to be too eager to make this fight. It’s not just Arum that seems reluctant to agree to a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight but also Pacquiao. He’s been repeating some of the same excuses that Arum has been making about an outdoor arena needing to be made.
Fernando Montiel to return to the ring in March
Former three division world champion Fernando Montiel (46-4, 36 KO’s) reportedly will be returning to action in March against an opponent still to be determined. Montiel will be fighting in Los Mochis, Mexico.
Montiel’s career has taken a negative turn in the past year with a 2nd round TKO loss to Nonito Donaire last February, and then a 12 round unanimous decision loss to Victor Terrazas (32-2-1. 18 KO’s) last November in a failed attempt to capture the World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver bantamweight title. Montiel lost his WBC/WBO bantamweight title to Donaire in his 2nd round TKO loss.
Montiel, 5’4″, was perfect at flyweight and super flyweight, dominating most of the opposition he faced while fighting in those divisions. But in moving up to bantamweight and now super bantamweight, Montiel is discovering that his limited size is a real negative for him. He needs to move back down in weight to super flyweight or better yet, flyweight, if he wants to dominate he like he used to. The loss to Terrazas showed pretty clearly that Montiel doesn’t have the size to compete at super bantamweight.
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