Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Manny Pacquiao Master Discussion Thread

[RSBonos]

***8220;We***8217;re all done,***8221; Arum told Fight Hub TV and others while in Colorado this week. ***8220;We***8217;ve signed everything, agreed on all the terms. As far as we know, we***8217;ve been told by the highest authority that Mayweather***8217;s people have agreed, that the networks have agreed.

Yeah, I see. Hard to take him at his word. Arum loves that spotlight.

[Spoon23]

Ground hog day anyone.. Same duck move different day Floyd?

We are taken for a fool again. Time to rally and pitch fork this fraud Mayweather. He's all posturing and at the end of a deal he has no cohones to man-up. We don't need a soft fighter to be our p4p.

Here is facts on how he performs ducksville 101. His perfected defensive move. All posturing and no delivery.



By June, the fight seemed a lock. Oscar De La Hoya, whose Golden Boy Promotions partners with Mayweather, was quoted as saying: The two fighters now realize that this fight must be made It's going to be a big, big fight. I think right now we are very, very close in finalizing the contracts.

On Monday, when Robert Morales of krikya360.com caught up with De La Hoya in Los Angeles, the Golden Boy denied it all. Obviously, he said, negotiations weren't going on.

Obviously. De La Hoya knew this because last week, after negotiations broke down, Mayweather advisor Leonard Ellerbe issued a press release. No negotiations have ever taken place,***8221; it read. ... Either Ross Greenburg or Bob Arum is not telling the truth, but history tells us who is lying.

He was referring to Arum, of course. But now that Greenburgs release supports Arums story, the Mayweather camp has taken to citing a Make A Wish video shot June 2.

At this particular time, said Floyd Mayweather, Floyd Mayweather is taking probably a year off, a couple years off from the sport of boxing.

Oh. Then why did Haymon keep negotiating for at least another month? Is he that much of a sucker?

You cant fault Haymon, says my source. He was trying to make this fight.

There were five guys involved here. Four of them Pacquiao, Arum, Haymon and Greenburg worked hard to make it happen. The fifth guy killed it.



Top Rank's Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, insists they were, using HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg as an intermediary.

The Mayweather camp said that is not true and that there were never any negotiations.

The man in the middle of the storm, Greenburg, remained silent even when pressed repeatedly to offer his version of events.

On Monday night, Greenburg finally did.

He took the Arum/Pacquiao side.

"Fights like Mayweather vs. Pacquiao are significant because of these fighters' ability to connect with sports fans around the world. It's unfortunate that it won't happen in 2010," Greenburg said in a statement. "I had been negotiating with a representative from each side since May 2nd, carefully trying to put the fight together. Hopefully, someday this fight will happen. Sports fans deserve it."



Greenburg insists the fight was close to being made twice for this year. Both times, the fight was very close to being made, Greenburg told Satterfield. And, the second time around, you know, all that I can say is that you would have to ask Floyd Mayweather why the fight wasn't made. To this day, I really don't know why Floyd decided that he didn***8217;t want the fight any more in the fall.

To this day, I don't know why he wanted to take some more time off, said Greenburg. Only Floyd has that answer. I certainly don't have that answer. But, you know, it was very close. It was so, so, close. I think that it was so close that I don't think that its going to take much to make the fight the third time around.

[Spoon23]

Why can't we get the fight that we all want? Why have we had to wait for 6 years without any reward? Why can't these "businessmen" figure out how to split $200M between them? Why are we always left with more questions than answers?

You forget the real question.

Why can't my idol Floyd grow a pair of nuts and fight the guy? Why?

There is only 2 guys who can stop the fight Pacquiao and Floyd. Floyd, wants may 2. Pac and arum conceded.

But coming from hbo and arum, his taking his time.. Hmm.. Seems like buying time for the other party to break out and move on.

If Floyd wants may 2. He should step up and rush it. But he ain't.. So ask yourself why is my fighter so fuvking gay?

[Robbie Barrett]

This is getting retarted. We as boxing fans, are getting robbed. Some are even getting robbed blind!

You're already there.

[Spoon23]

Well, well, well...some issues between boxers...that is pretty specific....and this points to what we have been saying all along...Floyd is putting up roadblocks...being a douche....he will tank this...I hope he is **** on from every angle for it....

Yup déjàvu all over again.

Should have believed my friends when they said, Floyd will always be a pussay when it comes to Pac.

Floyd will never fight Pac. He's that worried for his health.

[davidandrei]

hey I don't know if its allowed to post a boxing news24 story in here but theres an interesting read there. just kind of talks about how ppv revenue gets split and the power struggle between hbo and showtime.

[Shapopojoe]

It's easy to spot the coward in this hype...one comes alone with his wife to an nba game and the other brings 5 guys that look like Bigfoot to protect him...now tell me ****, *****s...

[Shapopojoe]

I am pretty sure the only Floyd fans keft are going to be the same ones that supported oj the beheader just because he was black...

[Shapopojoe]

If I lived in vegas I think I might get about 100 fight fans down to Mayweather boxing club with signs calling lil Floyd out and make some headlines...his thugs don't scare me, I gave an open carry license with their name on it if they get handy...

[Weebler I]

hey I don't know if its allowed to post a boxing news24 story in here but theres an interesting read there. just kind of talks about how ppv revenue gets split and the power struggle between hbo and showtime.

Arum refuted that the broadcast was the issue, said "that's all bull****, that's not true".

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