Is Manny Pacquiao ducking Floyd Mayweather?
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manny just fought saturday and all u floyd fans are screaming sign take the fight give him a few weeks to chill. i remember they was asking oscar wen is floyd going to fight manny.oscar was like floyd will fight wen he wants 2 fight he just fought six months ago he aint thinking about boxing lol manny will step up to the plate and floyd will run from the fight like alwayz u guyz will see....
Manny fans are so funny. Mayweather beat 4 welterweight champions, while the great Manny beat 1 welterweight champion (Cotto at 145lb). When are the Manny fans going to wake up and stop making excuses for this hype job. Margarito, Mosley, and Clottey were not champions when Manny fought them. Manny never fought the top welterweight in the division, he waited until someone else did the job, then he fought the loser of the big fight. Judah, Baldomir, Mosley, and Ortiz where all welterweight champions when Mayweather beat them. Manny didn't clean out the welterweight division fighting 1 champion at a catchweight. Stop the BS hyping of Manny's 3 years of fighting weight drained and already damaged fighters..
sliver of hope from bob?
May-Pac not dead (Indications that Mayweather's team has reached out to Martinez)
The highly anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao may not be dead just yet. Though Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, whose company has already reserved May 5 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to host the bout, is concerned that Pacquiao’s team is not interested, Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said he’s simply not ready to talk now.
Arum did not rule out conversations for a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, but said he is not prepared to talk to Schaefer about it at the moment because he has a full schedule. Arum is promoting a WBC middleweight title fight in Houston between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Peter Manfredo Jr. on Saturday, then has a media day for Miguel Cotto in Florida, the Thanksgiving holiday, and then the Cotto-Margarito pay-per-view in New York on Dec. 3
“Our position is simple and that is that right now, we’re not ready to talk,” Arum said Tuesday. “I’m in Los Angeles now, but I’m flying to New York in a couple of hours. I have a big fight to promote on Dec. 3.”
“Manny is on his way back to the Philippines today. In a few weeks, whether it’s a [Juan Manuel] Marquez rematch, a Mayweather fight, a fight with Timothy Bradley, or whatever, we’ll sit down with the appropriate parties and talk. But we’re not ready to talk about it now.”
Schaefer said he would like Arum to meet with him in Los Angeles later this week with retired federal judge Daniel Weinstein, an arbiter who has mediated several disputes between the companies.
Schaefer said he believes Arum is not interested in making the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, and so he said he is ready to move on and find an opponent who is willing to fight Mayweather. There are indications that Mayweather’s team has reached out to middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, though that could not be confirmed.
“I left Bob a message two months ago and he never called me back,” Schaefer said. “I read comments from Bob in the Los Angeles Times this morning saying that Manny wants a rematch with Marquez. What am I going to do, sit around and wait to see what they do? Hell no. I am going to get the biggest fight done for Floyd that I can. We wanted to make the Pacquiao fight, but if Bob doesn’t want to do it, or Manny is saying that he wants to fight Marquez, what can we do?
“Floyd wants the fight. He gave his team the go-ahead to reach out to me to get it done and we are ready, willing and able to talk. But in order to reach a deal, the other side has to want to come to the table.”
Arum, who said on Saturday he planned to pursue a rematch with Marquez, said he’s open to whatever the best deal is and said he’d need to speak to Pacquiao.
“There’s no rush,” he said. “There is still a lot of time. Manny just had a fight and went through a very hard training camp. He’s going home now. We need to give him a little time, and we have a lot of things to do ourselves. I’m not ruling out anything. No decisions have been made. But we’re just not ready to talk. Schaefer can talk to me, and I’m happy to talk to him, but we’re not going to talk in a negotiating stance just yet because of everything going on.”
Showtime names Hershman’s replacement
Showtime hired Stephen Espinoza on Monday as the next executive vice president and general manager of Showtime Sports, replacing Ken Hershman, who resigned to take over as president of HBO Sports.
Espinoza’s hiring on Monday raised eyebrows in the boxing industry, because he was the attorney for Golden Boy and its president, Oscar De La Hoya.
Schaefer said he thought Espinoza was a “great hire” by Showtime and he laughed at suggestions made privately by many in the industry that he would be able to control Espinoza and essentially get Espinoza to buy whatever fights Golden Boy was pushing.
“That’s a great compliment to me, because they obviously believe I am very powerful,” he said. “I don’t have that kind of power, though I wish I did. That’s the funniest thing. Some of these promoters are knuckleheads, but they should worry about what they are doing with their own businesses. Stephen is a smart guy who is passionate about boxing and this was a great hire by Showtime.”
Arum, who worked closely with Espinoza when Top Rank promoted De La Hoya, said he had no concerns. “I assume it will be business as usual and if we have fights they like, he’ll buy them and if we have fights he doesn’t like, he’ll decline them,” Arum said. “That’s as it should be.”
Promoter Lou DiBella said he is willing to given Espinoza the benefit of the doubt.
“You have to expect that people in the industry would be concerned, because he had a lawyer-client privileged relationship with [Golden Boy],” DiBella said. “Having some concern is common sense. But that said, I’ve known Espinoza a long time. He is a very bright guy. This is the opportunity of a lifetime for him and we should give him the benefit of the doubt in believing he’s intelligent enough to realize that.
“I think we have to wait and see, but he deserves the benefit of the doubt. This is such a great opportunity and I think he’ll want to put his best foot forward.”
• Pacquiao fans, not content their hero won Saturday’s hotly contested fight, are flooding the Internet with photos of Marquez stepping on Pacquiao’s foot. That happens, frequently, when a southpaw faces a right-hander, as was the case on Saturday. Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said “it was excessive,” but also had no complaint, saying, “It’s a fight.” Bottom line: Get over it, people. Be glad your guy got a decision not a lot of folks believe he deserved.
• All indications are that the Pacquiao-Marquez pay-per-view results are going to be very high. Don’t be shocked if the final number soars past 1.5 million. If it does, it would be the largest Pacquiao fight ever and the second-largest non-heavyweight pay-per-view of all-time, trailing only the 2007 De La Hoya-Mayweather bout. That match did 2.45 million.
• Don’t you think it would help if both Mayweather and Pacquiao released public statements saying they wanted to fight each other? If that were to happen, neither promoter would have an excuse not to get it done.
• If Arum decides to have Pacquiao fight Marquez a fourth time, I strongly favor a Mayweather bout against Martinez. A match against Amir Khan would put him against a guy moving up in weight. Mayweather needs to do something big, and leaping up in weight, as Pacquiao has done, would be a bold stroke for him.
May-Pac not dead (Indications that Mayweather's team has reached out to Martinez)
The highly anticipated fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao may not be dead just yet. Though Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, whose company has already reserved May 5 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to host the bout, is concerned that Pacquiao’s team is not interested, Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said he’s simply not ready to talk now.
Arum did not rule out conversations for a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, but said he is not prepared to talk to Schaefer about it at the moment because he has a full schedule. Arum is promoting a WBC middleweight title fight in Houston between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Peter Manfredo Jr. on Saturday, then has a media day for Miguel Cotto in Florida, the Thanksgiving holiday, and then the Cotto-Margarito pay-per-view in New York on Dec. 3
“Our position is simple and that is that right now, we’re not ready to talk,” Arum said Tuesday. “I’m in Los Angeles now, but I’m flying to New York in a couple of hours. I have a big fight to promote on Dec. 3.”
“Manny is on his way back to the Philippines today. In a few weeks, whether it’s a [Juan Manuel] Marquez rematch, a Mayweather fight, a fight with Timothy Bradley, or whatever, we’ll sit down with the appropriate parties and talk. But we’re not ready to talk about it now.”
Schaefer said he would like Arum to meet with him in Los Angeles later this week with retired federal judge Daniel Weinstein, an arbiter who has mediated several disputes between the companies.
Schaefer said he believes Arum is not interested in making the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, and so he said he is ready to move on and find an opponent who is willing to fight Mayweather. There are indications that Mayweather’s team has reached out to middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, though that could not be confirmed.
“I left Bob a message two months ago and he never called me back,” Schaefer said. “I read comments from Bob in the Los Angeles Times this morning saying that Manny wants a rematch with Marquez. What am I going to do, sit around and wait to see what they do? Hell no. I am going to get the biggest fight done for Floyd that I can. We wanted to make the Pacquiao fight, but if Bob doesn’t want to do it, or Manny is saying that he wants to fight Marquez, what can we do?
“Floyd wants the fight. He gave his team the go-ahead to reach out to me to get it done and we are ready, willing and able to talk. But in order to reach a deal, the other side has to want to come to the table.”
Arum, who said on Saturday he planned to pursue a rematch with Marquez, said he’s open to whatever the best deal is and said he’d need to speak to Pacquiao.
“There’s no rush,” he said. “There is still a lot of time. Manny just had a fight and went through a very hard training camp. He’s going home now. We need to give him a little time, and we have a lot of things to do ourselves. I’m not ruling out anything. No decisions have been made. But we’re just not ready to talk. Schaefer can talk to me, and I’m happy to talk to him, but we’re not going to talk in a negotiating stance just yet because of everything going on.”
Showtime names Hershman’s replacement
Showtime hired Stephen Espinoza on Monday as the next executive vice president and general manager of Showtime Sports, replacing Ken Hershman, who resigned to take over as president of HBO Sports.
Espinoza’s hiring on Monday raised eyebrows in the boxing industry, because he was the attorney for Golden Boy and its president, Oscar De La Hoya.
Schaefer said he thought Espinoza was a “great hire” by Showtime and he laughed at suggestions made privately by many in the industry that he would be able to control Espinoza and essentially get Espinoza to buy whatever fights Golden Boy was pushing.
“That’s a great compliment to me, because they obviously believe I am very powerful,” he said. “I don’t have that kind of power, though I wish I did. That’s the funniest thing. Some of these promoters are knuckleheads, but they should worry about what they are doing with their own businesses. Stephen is a smart guy who is passionate about boxing and this was a great hire by Showtime.”
Arum, who worked closely with Espinoza when Top Rank promoted De La Hoya, said he had no concerns. “I assume it will be business as usual and if we have fights they like, he’ll buy them and if we have fights he doesn’t like, he’ll decline them,” Arum said. “That’s as it should be.”
Promoter Lou DiBella said he is willing to given Espinoza the benefit of the doubt.
“You have to expect that people in the industry would be concerned, because he had a lawyer-client privileged relationship with [Golden Boy],” DiBella said. “Having some concern is common sense. But that said, I’ve known Espinoza a long time. He is a very bright guy. This is the opportunity of a lifetime for him and we should give him the benefit of the doubt in believing he’s intelligent enough to realize that.
“I think we have to wait and see, but he deserves the benefit of the doubt. This is such a great opportunity and I think he’ll want to put his best foot forward.”
• Pacquiao fans, not content their hero won Saturday’s hotly contested fight, are flooding the Internet with photos of Marquez stepping on Pacquiao’s foot. That happens, frequently, when a southpaw faces a right-hander, as was the case on Saturday. Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said “it was excessive,” but also had no complaint, saying, “It’s a fight.” Bottom line: Get over it, people. Be glad your guy got a decision not a lot of folks believe he deserved.
• All indications are that the Pacquiao-Marquez pay-per-view results are going to be very high. Don’t be shocked if the final number soars past 1.5 million. If it does, it would be the largest Pacquiao fight ever and the second-largest non-heavyweight pay-per-view of all-time, trailing only the 2007 De La Hoya-Mayweather bout. That match did 2.45 million.
• Don’t you think it would help if both Mayweather and Pacquiao released public statements saying they wanted to fight each other? If that were to happen, neither promoter would have an excuse not to get it done.
• If Arum decides to have Pacquiao fight Marquez a fourth time, I strongly favor a Mayweather bout against Martinez. A match against Amir Khan would put him against a guy moving up in weight. Mayweather needs to do something big, and leaping up in weight, as Pacquiao has done, would be a bold stroke for him.
these dumbass mayweather groupies don't apply the same rules to their boy as they do to pac. yet a dude who just came off a fight on saturday is supposed to be signed up for his next fight before he even flies back home? lol, but they make endless excuses for floyd ducking fights to go on vacation with his boyfriend fiddy. I bet those faggots stayed in the honeymoon sweet together.
Mayweather should fight Martinez fucking waiting another second for Team Manny and Top Rank dragging there feet, making excuses, only to turn around and fight Marquez or Bradley a few month later. We already saw this same bullshit happen before on March 2010, Manny walks away from the Mayweather and fought Clottey a few months later in Texas. We have seen Top Rank do this a 2nd time with the bs countdown website for Mayweather to sign, but then Top Rank turns around and fight Margarito a few months later. If Top Rank wanted to fight Mayweather then pick up the phone and make the fight.
No more piggy backing off Mayweather hype to sell Manny bs fights anymore. After two years of hearing Mayweather is scared, he's ducking, Manny agreed to OSDT, now it's time to fight and Top Rank don't even want to talk about the fight with Mayweaher.
No more piggy backing off Mayweather hype to sell Manny bs fights anymore. After two years of hearing Mayweather is scared, he's ducking, Manny agreed to OSDT, now it's time to fight and Top Rank don't even want to talk about the fight with Mayweaher.
