How many of you think either Freddie Roach or Bob Arum has actually spoken to Floyd Mayweather Jr at any point over the last three plus years? I'd say there's a very slim chance either has talked to Lil' Floyd in years.
But ever week or so there are interviews featuring Freddie Roach and Bob Arum claiming to know exactly why Floyd Mayweather does everything that he does and claiming to know exactly what Mayweather's motivation is for just about everything. And a lot of people on these boards take what those two say about Floyd as if it were the gospel. Why?
What if Richard Schaefer and Oscar De la Hoya were to make statements about Manny Pacquiao? (Oh wait they did recently and the Pacquiao/Top Rank fans dismissed it). Schaefer and De la Hoya actually talk to Pacquiao on occasion and nobody accepts what they say about Pacquiao? Why do you pay any attention to what Roach and Arum have to say about Mayweather? Those two are the last two people who'd know anything about what Mayweather is thinking or doing.
And of course there are a multiple writers on this site who routinely quote Roach and Arum about Mayweather and rarely quote people who actually talk to him like Al Haymon, Leonard Ellerbe, Roger, Floyd Sr., etc.