Mayweather asks for $100 million to fight Pacquiao

By Chris Williams: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. has reportedly asked for $100 million to fight Manny Pacquiao in a mega fight that doesn’t appear to happening anytime soon unfortunately. Mayweather obviously is looking to get as much as he can for the fight, but his asking price is going to have to come down a tad for the fight to get made. Someone working for Mayweather had secret talks with Bob Arum [Pacquiao’s promoter] recently to try and get the fight made but it looks like things didn’t work out form what Arum is saying.

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Sergio Martinez says Mayweather is the best fighter in the world, and wants to fight him

Image: Sergio Martinez says Mayweather is the best fighter in the world, and wants to fight himBy Dave Lahr: Well, I hate to break this to Manny Pacquiao’s fans but WBC Emeritus middleweight champion Sergio Martinez thinks Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the best fighter in boxing right now, not Pacquiao. I got to say I totally agree with Martinez 100%. Mayweather is on another planet in terms of ability to compared to Pacquiao. It’s too bad Martinez can’t get a fight against Manny, because it would be great to see what Martinez’s punches can do with the 5’6″ Pacquiao.

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Khan says he will move up to 147 after Bradley fight, wants Mayweather

By William Mackay: WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) will be moving up to 147 after his unification bout with Timothy Bradley in July. Before that, Khan faces little known EBU champion Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) in April in a fight that Khan specifically asked despite there being pretty much zero interest in the mismatch. Khan says he’ll stop McCloskey in six. Few boxing fans would disagree with that, because McCloskey is slow, not particularly powerful and probably beatable to many of the top contenders.

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Koncz says talks are underway with Pacquiao and Mayweather’s people

Image: Koncz says talks are underway with Pacquiao and Mayweather's peopleBy Chris Williams: In a good sign that boxing fans may finally be seeing a long awaited mega fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., the adviser for Pacquiao, Michael Koncz, is saying that talks are going on between Pacquiao and Mayweather’s people, according to ABC CBN News. It’s unknown how far along the discussions are but hopefully they can get past the point where the first discussions stalled out and died last year.

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Will Pretty Boy (Floyd Maywether Jnr) self-destruct?

Image: Will Pretty Boy (Floyd Maywether Jnr) self-destruct?By Babatis Banda: I have keenly read posts on this site for a while. I have also not only posted comments, but written a number of articles too. My attention was captured by some recent comments made by one blogger ‘Foreal’ that there is a tendency for very successful sports persons or personalities to self-destruct at some point. With reference to Floyd Maywhether Jnr, could this be true? He went on to argue that it seemed certain that he would self-destruct, not in the ring though, but outside of it. He seemed to make an argument that this tendency to self-destruct in the case of Floyd was a discipline issue rather than anything else.

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