Koncz thinks Mayweather wouldn’t fight Pacquiao even if Arum were out of picture

http://www.************.com/2014/05/koncz-thinks-mayweather-wouldnt-fight-pacquiao-even-if-arum-were-out-of-picture/ by Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s close personal adviser Michael Koncz doesn’t believe that the reason why Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t give Pacquiao a fight has anything to do with him being signed with Bob Arum’s Top Rank promotions. Koncz sees it as another excuse by Mayweather just so that he doesn’t have to get in the ring with the Filipino star. Koncz thinks Mayweather is constantly coming up with new excuses for him not having to get in the ring with Pacquiao. Unfortunately, Pacquiao didn’t agree to the full random blood testing that Mayweather asked for in their initial negotiations in 2010. If Pacquiao had agreed to the testing, he would have gotten the fight with Mayweather. That was Pacquiao’s chance to get a 50-50 percentage cut for a Mayweather fight. Instead, Arum had Pacquiao fight one of his stable fighters Joshua Clottey and the PPV results were disappointing to say the least. That was a big, big lost opportunity for Arum. He might have thought that the Mayweather fight was always going to be there for Pacquiao, so he put him in with Clottey.. Koncz doesn’t say why Pacquiao refused a $40 million offer by Mayweather for a fight in 2012, which as it turns out, was far more than Pacquiao received for getting knocked clean out by Juan Manuel Marquez in December of 2012. In hindsight, I think Pacquiao should have taken the offer from Mayweather rather than getting knocked out by Marquez for less money, don’t you think? “I don’t believe Floyd not fighting us has to do with with Bob ,” Koncz said to Dan Rafael of ESPN. “Why did he wait until he exhausted all other excuses before saying he wouldn’t fight Manny if Bob was involved? First he brought up the drug testing . Then he wanted Manny to sign with him. Then he wanted to pay Manny a flat fee of $40 million for the fight instead of sharing a percentage. And now he can’t fight Manny because Bob would be involved?” Some boxing fans believe that Pacquiao had his contract extended for 2 additional years with Top Rank in order not to have to worry about fighting Mayweather. With Pacquiao re-signed with Top Rank, he would know that Mayweather would never agree to fight him due to the differences he has with Arum. Some of the fans wonder why Pacquiao didn’t just wait long enough to get the fight with Mayweather before re-signing with Arum. For example, if Pacquiao become a promotional free agent for a short amount of time after his contract expired with Top Rank at the end of 2014, he could in theory have fought Mayweather and received a payday of $50-60 million for that fight. Pacquiao could have then shown his loyalty to Arum by immediately scampering back to the fold and re-upped for another 2 years to take him to his retirement.