Mayweather's False Intentions About Fighting Pacquiao Exposed.
Written by Frank Lotierzo
Saturday, 21 January 2012 17:48
http://thesweetscience.com/news/articles/13969-mayweathers-false-intentions-about-fighting-pacquiao-exposedlotierzo
No matter how many times we tell ourselves that we're not going to get sucked into the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao subterfuge, we always do. However, Mayweather relayed something in his phone call to Pacquiao last week that indicated what we probably already knew, that is Floyd isn't as serious as he wants us to think he is about making the fight with Pacquiao.
ESPN reported that Mayweather sent SportsCenter anchor Stan Verrett an e-mail that rejected a 50/50 purse split with Pacquiao....something that Manny has said he's agreeable to. According to Verrett, Floyd wrote: "He asked about a 50/50 split and I told him that can't happen, but what can happen is you can make more money fighting me than you have made in your career."
So there you have it. Mayweather is still about fighting Pacquiao in the media because if he were truly serious about fighting him, he'd jump at the 50/50 purse split. Can there be any boxing fans alive who don't see that Mayweather has used the nuanced drug testing and demands for purse parity as a ruses to avoid the fight?
Does anyone who remotely follows professional boxing not understand that fighting Pacquiao would not only be the most lucrative bout of Mayweather's career, but also the most important and signature fight of it? And can anyone make a case as to why one deserves a bigger split of the money over the other? Of course not, because one doesn't exist.
Mayweather's insistence that he receives the lion's share of the money is just the first step in him trying to control all the terms of the fight. And if Pacquiao/Arum ever conceded to Floyd's demands on how the money is divided they would be dancing to Mayweather's beat and drummer on everything else right up until the last bell concluding the fight.
The good news is maybe Mayweather has dropped the demands for the Olympic style pre-fight drug testing because that wasn't mentioned as part of the conversation between he and Manny. Then again maybe he's assuming the sale and is operating under the pretense that that's already part of the deal. One thing is for certain, it's become nauseating watching Mayweather string everyone along and tease them into thinking he wants to fight Pacquiao in a fair fight. The fact of the matter is Mayweather, who I believe is confident that he can beat Pacquiao, doesn't want to chance it. Not at all.
The Pacquiao-Mayweather talk and hype has become a big joke and an embarrassment to a professional sport that continually reinvents ways to make itself less and less relevant to those who it depends on to support it.
There's been a ton of talk of how a Pacquiao-Mayweather clash would be the biggest fight in boxing history. And no doubt from a money perspective it would be. That is mostly because it would be the latest superfight to take place and there are no other fights that can be made that would stimulate quasi boxing fans. And that's because the fighters who round out the rest of boxing's pound-for-pound top ten are either 47 years old or only known to the small percentage of hardcore boxing fans still in existence.
Remember, what Pacquiao has achieved has been off the charts. But it's not like we've never seen him stopped or defeated before. As for Mayweather - has there ever been another so called great boxer who ducked more elite fighters than he has, or waited until they were an empty package before fighting them? So why would a fight between them be so must see?
Boxing history is replete with all time greats facing each other several times without the games and excuses Mayweather has sunk to in order to insure he has every advantage in the world if he ever does meet Pacquiao. Floyd Mayweather has been so terrific and great that once he's retired he'll never be an immediate mention or thought when talk of the greatest fighters/boxers in history are bantered about. And that's because despite him retiring undefeated, nobody will remember where they were the night Mayweather fought such and such unless he fights Pacquiao in a fair fight without gimmicks and stipulations. And that's sad, because Mayweather could and would beat the smaller Pacquiao if they ever fought.
Maybe it's better for both Mayweather and Pacquiao if they never meet. If that's what happens, Pacquiao can continue making a ton of money and Arum doesn't have to worry about losing a bulk of his income. As for Mayweather, he also can continue to make a ton of money without ever being at risk and continue to claim a de facto victory over Pacquiao.
If they string this along too much longer, even the marks are going to stop caring.
Frank Lotierzo can be contacted at GlovedFist@Gmail.com
felon floyd will rather go on vacation to jail than fight the cash cow king, money manny. his excuses and demands are as long as his rap sheet, yet they've been met and he still won't fight the pound for pound king. such a backtracking coward the ducker
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he moonwalks away from fights :dance:
Floyd gave Arum and Pacquiao people who obviously did want the fight to begin with a legitimate reason to pull out of the fight .
Manny earned his 50/50 IMO by being able to sell 1.2+ mill PPV fighting Margarito and Mosley in **** mismatches its perfectly understandable and I won't be mad at Team Pacquiao for refusing less then 50/50.
and this is why the fight is not happening, because people don't want to put pressure on Arum or Pacquiao...they all just find ways to put blame back on Mayweather
Floyd did it to himself this time. He had them all right where he wants them, then he gives Team Pac a reason to run from the fight on the money.
If this fight doesn't get done now, it's not going to happen. Manny's next fight will not touch Marquez numbers, and then Floyd would really be a dh about the purse.. and Arum (grinning ear to ear) at that remaining an issue can keep making in house fights with his last great meal ticket.
Is this what you all want? Floyd needs to concede on the split.
Now if TR/Team Pac throw a roadblock up after that, then without question the media and anybody else really following, will turn on old Bob and Manny.
It is pretty clear that Pac doesn't want the fight. After all the excuses they that's pretty obvious.
However, if Floyd won't accept 50/50 split then it's pretty clear that he doesn't want the fight either.
stfu idiots. Don't try to make it seem like Pacquiao and Arum have made it seem like they're dying to make this fight, because they haven't. You freaking fanboys, including whoever it was that wrote the article, are getting on my nerves. For the last 2 years both sides have presented road block after road block, with the vast majority coming straight out of the Top Rank camp, for why they can't make a fight. Its nauseating.
Pacquiao, Bob Arum and the whole Top Rank staff have spent the last 2 weeks making excuse after excuse for why they don't want to fight Mayweather, which include some of the most outrageous and laughable excuses I've ever heard in the history of boxing, and the second that Mayweather (inexcusably and unintelligently I might add), gives them their first legit "out" to not take the fight, suddenly people act like it was Mayweather who never wanted the fight.
Top Rank has given absolutely no evidence whatsoever that they would accept a fight with Mayweather on May 5th, regardless of what they think the split should be. We don't even know whether or not Mayweather would actually refuse to do a 50/50 split, or if he's just trying to negotiate his way into getting a bigger percentage, seeing as though Pacquiao himself has said that he'd take a smaller purse to make the fight happen.
That said, I've said it before and I'll say it again: If Mayweather does not take this fight because he no longer wants to do a 50/50 split, I'm done with him. Pacquiao has already been exposed as the hypejob and puppet that he is, but Mayweather would be a complete dumb ass and goof if he legitimately doesn't want to split the purse down the middle for a fight in which he would not only make the biggest amount of money he's ever made, but for a fight that would absolutely cement his place in history as an ATG.
Well done sire, well done.
and this is why the fight is not happening, because people don't want to put pressure on Arum or Pacquiao...they all just find ways to put blame back on Mayweather
Mayweather's False Intentions About Fighting Pacquiao Exposed.
Written by Frank Lotierzo
Saturday, 21 January 2012 17:48
http://thesweetscience.com/news/articles/13969-mayweathers-false-intentions-about-fighting-pacquiao-exposedlotierzo
No matter how many times we tell ourselves that we're not going to get sucked into the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao subterfuge, we always do. However, Mayweather relayed something in his phone call to Pacquiao last week that indicated what we probably already knew, that is Floyd isn't as serious as he wants us to think he is about making the fight with Pacquiao.
ESPN reported that Mayweather sent SportsCenter anchor Stan Verrett an e-mail that rejected a 50/50 purse split with Pacquiao....something that Manny has said he's agreeable to. According to Verrett, Floyd wrote: "He asked about a 50/50 split and I told him that can't happen, but what can happen is you can make more money fighting me than you have made in your career."
So there you have it. Mayweather is still about fighting Pacquiao in the media because if he were truly serious about fighting him, he'd jump at the 50/50 purse split. Can there be any boxing fans alive who don't see that Mayweather has used the nuanced drug testing and demands for purse parity as a ruses to avoid the fight?
Does anyone who remotely follows professional boxing not understand that fighting Pacquiao would not only be the most lucrative bout of Mayweather's career, but also the most important and signature fight of it? And can anyone make a case as to why one deserves a bigger split of the money over the other? Of course not, because one doesn't exist.
Mayweather's insistence that he receives the lion's share of the money is just the first step in him trying to control all the terms of the fight. And if Pacquiao/Arum ever conceded to Floyd's demands on how the money is divided they would be dancing to Mayweather's beat and drummer on everything else right up until the last bell concluding the fight.
The good news is maybe Mayweather has dropped the demands for the Olympic style pre-fight drug testing because that wasn't mentioned as part of the conversation between he and Manny. Then again maybe he's assuming the sale and is operating under the pretense that that's already part of the deal. One thing is for certain, it's become nauseating watching Mayweather string everyone along and tease them into thinking he wants to fight Pacquiao in a fair fight. The fact of the matter is Mayweather, who I believe is confident that he can beat Pacquiao, doesn't want to chance it. Not at all.
The Pacquiao-Mayweather talk and hype has become a big joke and an embarrassment to a professional sport that continually reinvents ways to make itself less and less relevant to those who it depends on to support it.
There's been a ton of talk of how a Pacquiao-Mayweather clash would be the biggest fight in boxing history. And no doubt from a money perspective it would be. That is mostly because it would be the latest superfight to take place and there are no other fights that can be made that would stimulate quasi boxing fans. And that's because the fighters who round out the rest of boxing's pound-for-pound top ten are either 47 years old or only known to the small percentage of hardcore boxing fans still in existence.
Remember, what Pacquiao has achieved has been off the charts. But it's not like we've never seen him stopped or defeated before. As for Mayweather - has there ever been another so called great boxer who ducked more elite fighters than he has, or waited until they were an empty package before fighting them? So why would a fight between them be so must see?
Boxing history is replete with all time greats facing each other several times without the games and excuses Mayweather has sunk to in order to insure he has every advantage in the world if he ever does meet Pacquiao. Floyd Mayweather has been so terrific and great that once he's retired he'll never be an immediate mention or thought when talk of the greatest fighters/boxers in history are bantered about. And that's because despite him retiring undefeated, nobody will remember where they were the night Mayweather fought such and such unless he fights Pacquiao in a fair fight without gimmicks and stipulations. And that's sad, because Mayweather could and would beat the smaller Pacquiao if they ever fought.
Maybe it's better for both Mayweather and Pacquiao if they never meet. If that's what happens, Pacquiao can continue making a ton of money and Arum doesn't have to worry about losing a bulk of his income. As for Mayweather, he also can continue to make a ton of money without ever being at risk and continue to claim a de facto victory over Pacquiao.
If they string this along too much longer, even the marks are going to stop caring.
Frank Lotierzo can be contacted at GlovedFist@Gmail.com
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stfu idiots. Don't try to make it seem like Pacquiao and Arum have made it seem like they're dying to make this fight, because they haven't. You freaking fanboys, including whoever it was that wrote the article, are getting on my nerves. For the last 2 years both sides have presented road block after road block, with the vast majority coming straight out of the Top Rank camp, for why they can't make a fight. Its nauseating.
Pacquiao, Bob Arum and the whole Top Rank staff have spent the last 2 weeks making excuse after excuse for why they don't want to fight Mayweather, which include some of the most outrageous and laughable excuses I've ever heard in the history of boxing, and the second that Mayweather (inexcusably and unintelligently I might add), gives them their first legit "out" to not take the fight, suddenly people act like it was Mayweather who never wanted the fight.
Top Rank has given absolutely no evidence whatsoever that they would accept a fight with Mayweather on May 5th, regardless of what they think the split should be. We don't even know whether or not Mayweather would actually refuse to do a 50/50 split, or if he's just trying to negotiate his way into getting a bigger percentage, seeing as though Pacquiao himself has said that he'd take a smaller purse to make the fight happen.
That said, I've said it before and I'll say it again: If Mayweather does not take this fight because he no longer wants to do a 50/50 split, I'm done with him. Pacquiao has already been exposed as the hypejob and puppet that he is, but Mayweather would be a complete dumb ass and goof if he legitimately doesn't want to split the purse down the middle for a fight in which he would not only make the biggest amount of money he's ever made, but for a fight that would absolutely cement his place in history as an ATG.
great post well said.
stfu idiots. Don't try to make it seem like Pacquiao and Arum have made it seem like they're dying to make this fight, because they haven't. You freaking fanboys, including whoever it was that wrote the article, are getting on my nerves. For the last 2 years both sides have presented road block after road block, with the vast majority coming straight out of the Top Rank camp, for why they can't make a fight. Its nauseating.
Pacquiao, Bob Arum and the whole Top Rank staff have spent the last 2 weeks making excuse after excuse for why they don't want to fight Mayweather, which include some of the most outrageous and laughable excuses I've ever heard in the history of boxing, and the second that Mayweather (inexcusably and unintelligently I might add), gives them their first legit "out" to not take the fight, suddenly people act like it was Mayweather who never wanted the fight.
Top Rank has given absolutely no evidence whatsoever that they would accept a fight with Mayweather on May 5th, regardless of what they think the split should be. We don't even know whether or not Mayweather would actually refuse to do a 50/50 split, or if he's just trying to negotiate his way into getting a bigger percentage, seeing as though Pacquiao himself has said that he'd take a smaller purse to make the fight happen.
That said, I've said it before and I'll say it again: If Mayweather does not take this fight because he no longer wants to do a 50/50 split, I'm done with him. Pacquiao has already been exposed as the hypejob and puppet that he is, but Mayweather would be a complete dumb ass and goof if he legitimately doesn't want to split the purse down the middle for a fight in which he would not only make the biggest amount of money he's ever made, but for a fight that would absolutely cement his place in history as an ATG.
Frame this one. couldn't have said it any better.
that whole post is money too.
stfu idiots. Don't try to make it seem like Pacquiao and Arum have made it seem like they're dying to make this fight, because they haven't. You freaking fanboys, including whoever it was that wrote the article, are getting on my nerves. For the last 2 years both sides have presented road block after road block, with the vast majority coming straight out of the Top Rank camp, for why they can't make a fight. Its nauseating.
Pacquiao, Bob Arum and the whole Top Rank staff have spent the last 2 weeks making excuse after excuse for why they don't want to fight Mayweather, which include some of the most outrageous and laughable excuses I've ever heard in the history of boxing, and the second that Mayweather (inexcusably and unintelligently I might add), gives them their first legit "out" to not take the fight, suddenly people act like it was Mayweather who never wanted the fight.
Top Rank has given absolutely no evidence whatsoever that they would accept a fight with Mayweather on May 5th, regardless of what they think the split should be. We don't even know whether or not Mayweather would actually refuse to do a 50/50 split, or if he's just trying to negotiate his way into getting a bigger percentage, seeing as though Pacquiao himself has said that he'd take a smaller purse to make the fight happen.
That said, I've said it before and I'll say it again: If Mayweather does not take this fight because he no longer wants to do a 50/50 split, I'm done with him. Pacquiao has already been exposed as the hypejob and puppet that he is, but Mayweather would be a complete dumb ass and goof if he legitimately doesn't want to split the purse down the middle for a fight in which he would not only make the biggest amount of money he's ever made, but for a fight that would absolutely cement his place in history as an ATG.
even if floyd was to agree to give manny 51% he still would run like a bitch crying about some cut. the last two weeks showed us what manny and arum are made off.
everyone knows floyd does not want the fight, he is just trying to rebuild his reputation in the sport after he was exposed so many times as a cherry picking fraud
ost he got it, may 5th he got it, vegas he got it and now this more than 50 he will not get
all floyd does is put excuses in the way for why the fight cannot happen
when pac wanted no ost floyd did 14 days to try and save his face, when pac agreed on 14 he moved the posts further to no 14 days just to avoid it, pac then for the sake of boxing agreed to unlimited ost testing, floyd then shat himself and went for may 5th knowing pac has a bad cut, pac again for the sake of boxing has agreed to 5th of may
floyd in shock just had enough and killed the fight for good before it got too close that it could possibly be made by asking for more than 50-50
only his dick riding flomos cannot see this