By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. couldn’t help gloating about his victory over Manny Pacquiao in an interview with Showtime’s Jim Gray, who lobbed in the questions for Mayweather to hit out of the park.
Mayweather was slightly perturbed to see Pacquiao complaining about a shoulder injury after their fight last Saturday night, and saying that he thought he should have had his arm raised, not Mayweather.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s former strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza says he didn’t see anything from Pacquiao’s performance last Saturday night against Floyd Mayweather Jr. that would indicate that Pacquiao was suffering a right shoulder injury, according to Fighthype.com.
Ariza says he watched the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight over and over again, and he saw no signs of Pacquiao looking injured. Besides that, Ariza saw no ice being applied to Pacquiao’s shoulder or it being massaged the way coaches would do for someone with an injury to their shoulder.
By Babatis Banda: Looks like the twist and turns between these two boxers will never end. Floyd Mayweather Jr. initially had agreed to give Manny Pacquiao another go at him when he is fully recovered. It is a sad thing that Pacquiao had to go into the biggest fight of his career with an injury and dating back to 2008 according to Roach.
What is baffling though is that Pacquiao never showed any signs of discomfort during that fight with Floyd. Worse, Pacquiao and his team failed to disclose the injury prior to the fight and to me it indicates that he was fit and able to fight in that condition.
By Chris Williams: With the way that Manny Pacquiao conducted himself after his loss last Saturday night in the “Fight of the Century” in Las Vegas, Nevada, Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he no longer respects the Filipino fighter and doesn’t think it’s worth giving him a rematch.
Mayweather doesn’t buy Pacquiao’s injury excuse for a second. As far as Mayweather is concerned, he fought a healthy Pacquiao last Saturday night and beat him convincingly.
By Chris Williams: After listening to Manny Pacquiao complain about how he should have won the fight last Saturday, and how he supposedly was injured before the two of them stepped inside the ring, Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he’s changed his mind about wanting to give the Filipino star a rematch next year.
Mayweather says that Pacquiao is a sore loser, and can’t admit that that he was beaten by a better fighter.
By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says that Manny Pacquiao’s recent right shoulder problem isn’t a new injury that just surfaced for the Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight last Saturday night. The 83-year-old Arum claims that Pacquiao has had the injury to his right rotator cuff since his fight against Oscar De La Hoya seven long years ago in 2008.
Why Arum and Pacquiao chose this time for them to bring up the injury is unknown? You would think that Pacquiao and Arum could have mentioned the injury ages ago after a high point in Pacquiao’s career rather than after a loss.
By Chris Williams: The final pay-per-view numbers for the Floyd Mayweather Jr. – Manny Pacquiao fight are expected to be released next week, but thus far Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum is happy with the numbers, calling them “breathtaking” according to ESPN.com.
For Arum, it’s pretty big because his fighter Pacquiao has seen his pay-per-view numbers drop steadily since his knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012. Having Pacquiao’s numbers suddenly soar to an unimaginable height for the Mayweather fight is a real shot of adrenalin for Pacquiao and Arum.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s shoulder surgery was a success on Wednesday, after his embarrassing one-sided loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. last Saturday night. Pacquiao was operated on by the well-known orthopedic surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles, California to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder. There’s no word if it was a full tear.
Obviously a full tear is a much more serious problem than a partial tear. Dr. ElAttrache is happy with the results of the surgery, saying that he could “not be more pleased with the results,” via skysports.com. Pacquiao should be able to come back from the surgery in 9-12 months as long as there are no unforeseen setbacks.
By Dan Ambrose: WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin watched last Saturday’s mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, and he noted that the Filipino star lost control over the fight.
Golovkin felt that Mayweather’s intelligence was the key to him beating Pacquiao.
I’m not sure that Pacquiao really ever did have control of the fight. Mayweather won the first two rounds before giving up the 3rd round.
By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum wants Floyd Mayweather Jr. to skip his September fight and instead wait around until April of 2016 in order to be available to fight Manny Pacquiao in a rematch at that time at the MGM Grand’s new 20,000 seat arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.
Why Arum wants Mayweather to skip his September fight is the big question because it shouldn’t matter to Arum that Mayweather fights in the month or not.