By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Sr. sees through the smokescreen that Manny Pacquiao and his team have set up with their reluctance to fight his son Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5th. Mayweather Sr. sees it as plain old fashioned fear on Pacquiao and his team’s part about taking this fight.
Speaking with eastsideboxing.com’s On the Ropes Boxing Radio program, Mayweather Sr. said “It’s very clear that Pacquiao is scared and is not going to fight my son. So that right there is already laid to the side. He’s not going to fight Pacquiao on the 5th, trust me. He [Pacquiao] doesn’t want it! He doesn’t want it! They already know that Pacquiao is going to get his a** whopped! They already know that. It’s so plain to see a blind man can see it.”
I totally agree with Mr. Mayweather Sr. He’s been around a long time and knows fear when he sees it. All those fights Mayweather Sr. has had during his life. He knows fear when he sees it and he can definitely see it with Pacquiao and his management team. It’s not just Pacquiao’s promoter. Pacquiao seems hesitant to take the fight. He was mouthing off when it looked like Mayweather couldn’t fight him but now that he’s available and picked out May 5th, Pacquiao is suddenly falling in line lockstep with Arum and Michael Koncz, talking about the fight not making business sense. You can smell fear 500 miles away.
Pacquiao has a good thing with Arum matching him against beatable fading Top Rank stars of yesterday. Pacquiao has been doing real well against those guys. He doesn’t need to fight Mayweather and get beaten. Not if he can make about half as much to win fights against lesser guys. If he keeps doing what he’s going, Pacquiao might not lose for a long time against the guys Arum is matching him up against. But if he faces Mayweather, then it all ends. He gets beaten, and his paydays will probably drop big time after that. So, I think it’s smart to make excuses and not take the fight.
Mayweather will likely take on someone willing to fight him like Miguel Cotto, Saul Alvarez or maybe Lamont Peterson. He’s got a lot of options and doesn’t need Pacquiao do make big bank. Would he prefer to fight Pacquiao? You bet, but what can you do if a guy is completely unwilling to fight you year after year, and repeats the excuses his promoter is saying just to avoid the fight?
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