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Sugar Shane Mosley has completely boxed himself in regarding a big money fight against Manny Pacquiao.
Mosley, whose new theme song must “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” has done everything but stand on Santa Monica Boulevard with a tin cup and wearing a sign saying: WILL FIGHT PACMAN FOR FOOD.
I've seen street hookers on "The Stroll" in South Central who show more self respect and restraint.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Shane propping himself up with knee pads any minute now as the TV cameras roll.
And, inside sources tell me, his fellow “executives” at Golden Boy Promotions including Boss Oscar, are furious at Mosley using a new to boxing group of flacks (Entertainers and Athletes Group) to publicly target Da Pacman.
They think Mosley is trying to eliminate the gold from Golden Boy with his strange "neogotiating" maneuvers and tactics. They find his agreeing to onerous terms and weights through press releases and media interviews to be nothing but bush league.
“It’s not so much all the publicity,” the Golden Boy office snitch told me. “No fight promoter would mind getting publicity for any fighter. It’s that Mosley has prostrated himself in public at the feet of Manny and his cagey trainer, Coach Freddie Roach.
“Richard Schaefer, in particular, is livid, feeling that Mosley went, in essence, off the GBP reservation with his pronouncements that he will accept a 40/60 purse split and that he could possibly cut his weight to as low as 142 pounds to accommodate Manny’s desire to fight close to the junior welterweight limit.
“Richie Rich, as we call him, is asking what he has to negotiate with now. It’s a good question because this is a reminder of when the dolts repping Marvelous Marvin Hagler all but gave away the store to fight Sugar Ray Leonard. Hagler’s amateurs conceded the weight of the gloves, the number of rounds and other key items to the Leonard camp.
“You know what happened, Hagler lost a controversial decision. Schaefer wasn’t around boxing then, he was probably in his cradle in the Austrian alps or wherever but smart, veteran boxing people are telling him that Mosley and his new advisers have botched this thing.
“If you’re Bob Arum on the Pacman side of the table, why would you now give Mosley even 40 percent? You cut him further, down to 35, 36 or 37 points. You can see how desperate the 38-year-old fighter is. And why make the contract weight 142 when you can **** Shane down to maybe 140?”
There are many fighters who are “sellouts” but Mosley has sold himself out.
Bad form, Sweet Sugar, bad form. Throwing a rope around Boxing Banker Schaefer's neck and then telling him to make a good deal is untenable.
The way you’re operating is strictly, to use another old boxing phrase, Amateur Night in Dixie.
by Michael Marley
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5...Manny-Pacquiao
Mosley, whose new theme song must “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” has done everything but stand on Santa Monica Boulevard with a tin cup and wearing a sign saying: WILL FIGHT PACMAN FOR FOOD.
I've seen street hookers on "The Stroll" in South Central who show more self respect and restraint.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Shane propping himself up with knee pads any minute now as the TV cameras roll.
And, inside sources tell me, his fellow “executives” at Golden Boy Promotions including Boss Oscar, are furious at Mosley using a new to boxing group of flacks (Entertainers and Athletes Group) to publicly target Da Pacman.
They think Mosley is trying to eliminate the gold from Golden Boy with his strange "neogotiating" maneuvers and tactics. They find his agreeing to onerous terms and weights through press releases and media interviews to be nothing but bush league.
“It’s not so much all the publicity,” the Golden Boy office snitch told me. “No fight promoter would mind getting publicity for any fighter. It’s that Mosley has prostrated himself in public at the feet of Manny and his cagey trainer, Coach Freddie Roach.
“Richard Schaefer, in particular, is livid, feeling that Mosley went, in essence, off the GBP reservation with his pronouncements that he will accept a 40/60 purse split and that he could possibly cut his weight to as low as 142 pounds to accommodate Manny’s desire to fight close to the junior welterweight limit.
“Richie Rich, as we call him, is asking what he has to negotiate with now. It’s a good question because this is a reminder of when the dolts repping Marvelous Marvin Hagler all but gave away the store to fight Sugar Ray Leonard. Hagler’s amateurs conceded the weight of the gloves, the number of rounds and other key items to the Leonard camp.
“You know what happened, Hagler lost a controversial decision. Schaefer wasn’t around boxing then, he was probably in his cradle in the Austrian alps or wherever but smart, veteran boxing people are telling him that Mosley and his new advisers have botched this thing.
“If you’re Bob Arum on the Pacman side of the table, why would you now give Mosley even 40 percent? You cut him further, down to 35, 36 or 37 points. You can see how desperate the 38-year-old fighter is. And why make the contract weight 142 when you can **** Shane down to maybe 140?”
There are many fighters who are “sellouts” but Mosley has sold himself out.
Bad form, Sweet Sugar, bad form. Throwing a rope around Boxing Banker Schaefer's neck and then telling him to make a good deal is untenable.
The way you’re operating is strictly, to use another old boxing phrase, Amateur Night in Dixie.
by Michael Marley
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5...Manny-Pacquiao
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