By Edward Chaykovsky
Trainer Jeff Mayweather, the uncle of WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26KOs), believes Manny Pacquiao - if he would have won on May 2nd - would have never disclosed his shoulder injury.
Jeff is already under the impression that Pacquiao's injury was pre-existing condition and not an actual injury suffered in the fight, but feels the Filipino star would have kept quiet about it and focused on a big money rematch.
Mayweather won a twelve round unanimous decision, and afterwards Pacquiao revealed that he suffered a right should injury during the fourth round. At first it was said Pacquiao was entering the fight with an injury and then the story changed, to where Pacquiao was fine at the time of the fight and suffered a torn rotator cuff in the contest.
"Of course you would never hear anything about no shoulder injury. We would have never heard that, for a fact. The rematch, it probably would have been made because it would have been a fight worth so much money. It would have been huge, but it was all bs," Jeff told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.
"Pacquiao’s a guy who made himself look bad and now he doesn’t know how to recover. He doesn’t even know how to recover from what he’s just done. He lied to the public and then made himself look even worse because he lied about the fact that he even had an injury and then you have all these people saying, 'Oh well you should have told us. We should get our money back.'"
"The reality is, he never had a damn injury in the first place. Fighters go into the ring with injuries all the time. Probably ninety percent of fighters go into the ring with injuries, in any combat sport. Not severe injuries, not like the lie that he told, but you have injuries, but they’re never mentioned because that’s part of boxing. If you’re in MMA, that’s a part of MMA. It’s a part of any combat sport, you go into the fight with injuries because you get injured preparing for the fight."