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Ellerbe, the only original camp member who has remained with the team uninterrupted, openly questioned how anyone could doubt that Mayweather isn’t “the best fighter in the world.”
“He’s arguably the biggest guy out there in all of sports, and he doesn’t get enough credit for how he beats fighters,” Ellerbe said.
Ellerbe said Mayweather would take some time off and “not consider any other opponents” for the next several weeks.
“It was a very, very long promotion, really going back to the Pacquiao talks,” he said, referring to the discussions for a Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, which were initiated last November, seemed finalized in early December, then lingered for weeks before finally being terminated in early January.
The Mayweather-Pacquiao proposal fell apart over Mayweather’s insistence upon enhanced drug testing, and Pacquiao’s reluctance to agree to same, and any break in that impasse does not seem any more likely now than at the beginning of the year
“He’s arguably the biggest guy out there in all of sports, and he doesn’t get enough credit for how he beats fighters,” Ellerbe said.
Ellerbe said Mayweather would take some time off and “not consider any other opponents” for the next several weeks.
“It was a very, very long promotion, really going back to the Pacquiao talks,” he said, referring to the discussions for a Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, which were initiated last November, seemed finalized in early December, then lingered for weeks before finally being terminated in early January.
The Mayweather-Pacquiao proposal fell apart over Mayweather’s insistence upon enhanced drug testing, and Pacquiao’s reluctance to agree to same, and any break in that impasse does not seem any more likely now than at the beginning of the year
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