If Floyd is on "vacation", who should Pacquiao fight next?
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Dan,Has HBO agreed to carry PAC-Mosley yet? Will there be a 24/7?
Dan Rafael (12:33 PM)
It's not a matter of "if HBO agreed." It's a matter of if Top Rank will make a deal with HBO to do it. At this point, there is no deal and Arum is talking with Showtime/CBS as well.
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Wow, slim chance but IF this fight could be on CBS that would make this mismatch soooooo much more pleasing
Dan Rafael (12:33 PM)
It's not a matter of "if HBO agreed." It's a matter of if Top Rank will make a deal with HBO to do it. At this point, there is no deal and Arum is talking with Showtime/CBS as well.
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Wow, slim chance but IF this fight could be on CBS that would make this mismatch soooooo much more pleasing
When are the Pac-Man fans going to admit that Manny turned down the 1st fight. Once you can admit that then you can start talking about logic. Manny turned down the 1st fight and Mayweather turned down the 2nd fight. I see it as 1 -1 both ducked the fight one time. Stop with the double standard bs.. Is it funny that after both fights didn't happen they both end up fighting Mosley.
Team Manny changed their stance on the drug testing issue after they saw Mayweather get rocked by Shane. If Shane didn't rock Mayweather like he did, then Team Manny wouldn've never changed their stance. Manny supposedly said "If I hurt him, I would have finished him off"..... Manny can keep dreaming. He knows he can't beat the undefeated Mayweather that's why he used the blood test as a way to duck out of the fight.
Who would have let a stupid blood test get in the way of a fight like this?
Hopefully Mayweather would be Pacquiao's next opponent. Can't wait to see the 24/7 and all the trash that Mayweather is going to talk about Pacquiao before he steps in the ring and put that whoopin' on him.
Who would have let a stupid blood test get in the way of a fight like this?
Hopefully Mayweather would be Pacquiao's next opponent. Can't wait to see the 24/7 and all the trash that Mayweather is going to talk about Pacquiao before he steps in the ring and put that whoopin' on him.
wow quite the logic you have there.
Pacquiao agrees to fight floyd. Everything is agreed on. Terms. Location. Ring size. Glove size. Everything.
Then Floyd brings up drug testing out of no where, after they agreed on everything, which is what the fight fell apart the first time around.
Like I said before, Mayweather was the one setting up roadblocks. Manny was good to go.
Pacquiao agrees to fight floyd. Everything is agreed on. Terms. Location. Ring size. Glove size. Everything.
Then Floyd brings up drug testing out of no where, after they agreed on everything, which is what the fight fell apart the first time around.
Like I said before, Mayweather was the one setting up roadblocks. Manny was good to go.
So Manny asking for glove size, ring size, and a million dollars every pound over 147lb is not roadblocks? Mayweather agreed to all of Manny's terms, but Manny didn't want to agree to Mayweather's one term which was the drug testing. It's funny how people whin about drug testing which don't effect the fighter, but why don't no one whin about Cotto, Margarito, and DLH being weight drained trying to fight Manny. And then you want to talk about logic??
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/01/manny-pacquiao-floyd-mayweather-jr-boxing-2.html
The mediator who worked to strike a deal between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao today attempted to set the record straight as to why negotiations fell apart and why Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, is saying the fight is off.
Mediator Daniel Weinstein, a retired federal judge who listened to the Pacquiao and Mayweather representatives all day Tuesday and continued talks Wednesday, said in a statement released by Mayweather's promoters that the fight unraveled because "the parties could not agree on a testing protocol acceptable to all."
A statement by Mayweather is expected shortly, but Weinstein also noted in his statement that he wanted to correct some "erroneous" news reports of why the talks crashed.
Arum said Wednesday night that Mayweather ultimately didn't want to risk losing, with another source close to the negotiiations saying Pacquiao conceded to allow a blood test 24 days before the fight -- he previously would allow a blood draw only 30 days before the bout -- and sought an apology from Mayweather's team for implying the Filipino star has used performance-enhancing drugs.
Weinstein did not address specifics but made these points testifying to Mayweather's cooperativeness:
-- Both parties participated in the mediation in good faith. Both parties participated in many hours of negotiation, with a number of proposals issued by each side and carefully considered by the parties and their representatives."
-- The mediator himself did not formulate, recommend or issue a mediator's proposal. The mediator did not make an evaluation or finding that any one of the many proposals considered by the parties was the correct protocol.
-- Any attempt to characterize the mediation process as an acceptance or rejection by any of the parties of a mediator's or an arbiter's proposal or of any specific proposal is false.
Weinstein also scolded comments like those by Arum as "violations of the strict confidentiality to which the parties and their representatives agreed and which they authorized the mediator to enforce."
A person close to the negotiations told The Times today that Pacquiao's agreement to allow a blood draw 24 days before the fight fell short of the Mayweather camp's desire for Pacquiao to be tested 14 days before the super-fight that was scheduled for March 13 in Las Vegas.
The mediator who worked to strike a deal between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao today attempted to set the record straight as to why negotiations fell apart and why Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, is saying the fight is off.
Mediator Daniel Weinstein, a retired federal judge who listened to the Pacquiao and Mayweather representatives all day Tuesday and continued talks Wednesday, said in a statement released by Mayweather's promoters that the fight unraveled because "the parties could not agree on a testing protocol acceptable to all."
A statement by Mayweather is expected shortly, but Weinstein also noted in his statement that he wanted to correct some "erroneous" news reports of why the talks crashed.
Arum said Wednesday night that Mayweather ultimately didn't want to risk losing, with another source close to the negotiiations saying Pacquiao conceded to allow a blood test 24 days before the fight -- he previously would allow a blood draw only 30 days before the bout -- and sought an apology from Mayweather's team for implying the Filipino star has used performance-enhancing drugs.
Weinstein did not address specifics but made these points testifying to Mayweather's cooperativeness:
-- Both parties participated in the mediation in good faith. Both parties participated in many hours of negotiation, with a number of proposals issued by each side and carefully considered by the parties and their representatives."
-- The mediator himself did not formulate, recommend or issue a mediator's proposal. The mediator did not make an evaluation or finding that any one of the many proposals considered by the parties was the correct protocol.
-- Any attempt to characterize the mediation process as an acceptance or rejection by any of the parties of a mediator's or an arbiter's proposal or of any specific proposal is false.
Weinstein also scolded comments like those by Arum as "violations of the strict confidentiality to which the parties and their representatives agreed and which they authorized the mediator to enforce."
A person close to the negotiations told The Times today that Pacquiao's agreement to allow a blood draw 24 days before the fight fell short of the Mayweather camp's desire for Pacquiao to be tested 14 days before the super-fight that was scheduled for March 13 in Las Vegas.