Floyd Mayweather Jr. to sign contract by next week

By Boxing News - 01/22/2015 - Comments

mayweather77By Sizzle JKD: Here’s the thing boxing fans, we all need to relax. Stop believing the nonsense that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is going to fight Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao is going to fight Jessie Vargas and Alex Ariza knows what he’s doing because at the end of the day, the “Super Bowl of Boxing” will take place on May 2nd as I’ve been saying for the last four weeks.

It’s just a matter of time before the final contract is ironed out by CBS/Showtime and HBO, and once this is done, Floyd can sign off on the deal and everyone can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

According to what Bob Arum told the New York Daily News yesterday, he stated, “I am very positive this fight is going to happen.”

Arum said this in response to ridiculous comments made by Ariza, who said a couple of days ago that Arum was the sole reason why the fight wouldn’t materialize and called him a “roadblock” in the negotiations.

“Ariza has nothing to do with anything [involved] to the negotiations. Everything is agreed to, do you understand?” Arum said yesterday.

Ariza, a strength and conditioning coach, acting as if he’s a Mayweather adviser and saying he knows what’s going on with the contract talks and suggesting that Pacquiao should be doing this and that is like Justin Fortune or Pacquiao’s chief of security going public to state the reason the fight isn’t getting signed is because Floyd is having second thoughts in risking his “zero.”

Clearly, it is becoming more and more obvious that the back-and-forth going on between the Mayweather camp and Pacquiao camp as well as all of the Twitter comments have one singular purpose – to create more hype. Not that the super fight needs any more publicity and hype, but the increasing fan fervor and media uproar that has gone on the last two weeks serves the primary purpose of measuring if this fight has lost its appeal since negotiations broke down several times in 2009, 2010, and 2011. It’s nothing more than to gauge if fan interest is still as huge as it was five years ago.

I have no doubt in my mind things are coming to fruition albeit slowly but surely. It’s a process and when a spectacle this big is going to be made, the process takes time to develop. You can’t just simply write up a contract and have both parties sign it.

Both fighters still have to read the contract, seek advice from their manager/promoter, and evaluate all of the figures and numbers with their representatives to ensure it makes sense.
Lastly, the fact that this fight is going to be a joint broadcast between HBO and Showtime further complicates matters, thus prolonging the process.

Stephen Espinoza, V.P. of Showtime, has been a proponent of the fight the entire time and has voiced his support of the fight eventually materializing. If there’s any figure involved in these talks that we need to take seriously, it’s Espinoza. We shouldn’t take what he says with a grain of salt because he’s the man, along with Les Moonves, who is a central figure in making this fight happen.

Espinoza told the Associated Press recently, “Personally I’ve been involved in these negotiations continuously since the very first time in 2009. I can say I’m not sure there’s a point where I personally observed [Mayweather] wanting it more than over the last few months.”

Additionally, all-time boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard told FightHype.com yesterday, “I’ve heard from some very reliable sources that the fight’s going to come to fruition. It’s going to happen. It is the fight that will break all records. I can’t wait to see it.”

So hold your horses boxing fans. Relax your mind and let your conscience be free. Team Mayweather’s stance all along has been to stay quiet on matters related to the actual contract and negotiations. Pacquiao’s team has taken the position it wants to take, which is to be more vocal about the process and let the world know that talks have been ongoing.

As you can see, Canelo Alvarez and Cotto have already taken a back seat to allow this fight to take its course. I’m almost 100% sure the fight will be announced either at the end of the week or sometime next week. There’s even a huge possibility that both Pacquiao and Mayweather will attend the Super Bowl on February 1 and give fans a sneak peek at “Fistory.”
Enjoy the show. Now is when things start to get fun.



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