Bet on it: Manny Pacquiao will be next to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.

[koboy]

I think it is a waste of time though. I mean that is too easy for Floyd, along with Cotto and Shane.

Waste of time, yes, but will even be a bigger waste of money if he doesn't fight Manny.

BTW, I think PBF beats all three - Manny, Cotto, and Shane. But will Mayweather have the balls to fight them, I doubt it.

[pac oww]

Boxing needs this fight to happen.

[eazy_mas]

Yup but the problem is even if Cotto beats Pac I bet Mayweather will make a case for fighting Pac because he'll make some excuse for him losing and say that "Cotto doesn't make money and therefore doesn't make sense" whereas the Pac fight "makes money and makes sense." Floyd has taken Judah in the same fashion before right after Judah already lost and got owned by Baldomir because he claimed it's the fight that fans want to see so he will use the same excuse in fighting Pac because Pac will always be the easier fighter for Floyd to beat than Cotto cus Pac is too small.

I remeber the Zab fight. I think the Zab fight was more personal then business.

and when he was fighting Zab many people said he should be fighting Baldomir.

After Margarito KOed Gomez at the first round he called out Floyd. Arum was Floyd promoter back then didnt care.

When Floyd left Arum, Arum used Margarito to get Floyd fight as well as the 8 mil thingy. But he got 9 mil from Baldomir without the PPV.


When you are on the top you usally pick your oppenets. That what I noticed in boxing. First you struggle to get a fight being a contender calling out people then after you get the breakthrough fight you choose you opponnet til you fight a bigger star. That when Floyd fought Oscar it was all on Oscar's rules.

[prtyboybladeage]

There isn't a need to get nasty now. Will you praise the Pacman when he knocks out Mayweather? or will you make excuses? JAT


Ooops, time for dinner. See ya next time...

I don't make excuses. If Pac wins then ok. I just hate when people who are POFs, talk all types of mess when the guy doesn't have the sufficient skill to beat Mayweather. But only time will tell.

[Tidal]

i think it is wrong....it should be ...

FMJ will be the next to fight Paco .... FMJ is the welter-challenger and Paco is the King of P4P .... duh ...

Paco > FMJr + JMM + FMSr

ahahahaha ....

make sense when posting that FMJr will beat paco, coz if that is correct, voidness should have waited after the hatton-paco fight. but instead voidness use his logic who beats-who, duh. post it when FMJr KOs paco and while FMJr has not fought a legit welter, he is still a disgrace welter who fights blown-out-welter...

[swizz]

Bet on it: Manny Pacquiao will be next to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.

By Jeff Haney

Monday, Sept. 21, 2009 | 2 a.m.

With his engaging smile and handsome face, Oscar De La Hoya exudes the aura of a gifted salesman, a top producer.

It has served him well as he has built his company, Golden Boy Promotions, into a major force in the boxing business since its inception eight years ago.

This was a tough sell, though.

De La Hoya was trying to convince an assemblage of irascible boxing types late Saturday night at the MGM Grand that Shane Mosley, rather than Manny Pacquiao, would make a better opponent for Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Mayweather’s next fight.

De La Hoya knew he was pushing for Mosley only because Mosley is a member in good standing of the Golden Boy stable. The crowd knew it. De La Hoya knew the crowd knew it, and the crowd knew De La Hoya knew the crowd knew it.

The poker table was filled with professionals and everyone saw the bluff developing.

Nevertheless, De La Hoya gave it a shot.

“Mosley has a strong case, let me tell you,” De La Hoya said, clearly struggling for words to back up his assertion, repeating the same phrase but stressing a different syllable each time. “Mosley has a strong case. Mosley has a very strong case.”

He sounded like one of those concert emcees at Shea Stadium in 1965 given the thankless task of hyping the appearance of Sounds Incorporated when the crowd was obviously wired up to see the Beatles.

De La Hoya’s pitch was greeted by a confused silence and then a couple of catcalls, until someone politely suggested that Pacquiao would present a more desirable match.

After all, during Mayweather’s hiatus of nearly two years from boxing, Pacquiao claimed the consensus if mythical title of best active boxer in the world at any weight.

Mayweather regained the distinction with a brilliant performance in his 12-round dismantling, a near shutout, of Juan Manuel Marquez on Saturday at the Grand Garden Arena.

Prediction: Team Golden Boy’s lobbying notwithstanding, Mayweather-Pacquiao will be made. Negotiations will be hard and marked by all manner of posturing and name-calling. The proposed fight will be supposedly “on,” then “off again,” then “back on,” and this cycle will repeat two or three times. We’ve seen this show before. The promoters will inform us repeatedly that the lucrative fight “transcends boxing,” whatever that means. But it will be made.

Mayweather, despite intense questioning — he accurately pointed out that he was being asked the same thing over and over again in various ways — did not address his next fight. About the Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight scheduled for Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand, Mayweather said only that he hopes the best man wins.

His father, Floyd Mayweather Sr., cast his vote for a fight with Pacquiao over Mosley, though he thinks his son would win either fight handily.

“Mosley just wants a big payday, and Floyd shouldn’t give him one,” Mayweather Sr. said. “I want him to fight Pacquiao. Floyd can definitely whoop Mosley. Pacquiao? He’s probably even easier. He’s not in Floyd’s league.”

Although their relationship has been contentious in the past, father and son embraced in the ring just before Little Floyd went to work on Marquez (50-5-1).

“I gave him some good words of wisdom in there,” said Mayweather Sr., evoking the memory of Michael Jackson by sporting a showy military-style jacket on fight night. “I wanted him to protect himself, to keep his hands up, to win. I just wanted to give him some fatherly advice.”

Much has been made, with good reason, of Mayweather’s lopsided advantage in the punch statistics and on the official scorecards, where he won 120-107, 119-108 and 118-109. (I found it in my heart to award Marquez one round and had it 119-108.)

Just as impressive were the nuances in Mayweather’s execution, the way he controlled the ring and took Marquez out of his game — a difficult assignment Mayweather made look effortless. In his first fight since December 2007, Mayweather enhanced his reputation as a thinking fan’s fighter, someone best appreciated by those who enjoy the finer points of the sport: defense, the art of elusion, tactical maneuvering.

Loyal to the end, Marquez’s supporters filled the arena with cheers on every attempt by their man to put together a flurry of punches. More often than not, though, Mayweather picked off shot after shot thrown by Marquez, like the Japanese monster Grogan swatting down a fighter jet on the old SCTV sketch. The defining image of the fight might be a frowning Marquez fan posing for a photo in the lobby afterward, looking downcast but defiantly holding up a Mexican flag with Marquez’s name spelled out on it in silver lettering.

“He was trying to go to the body, but when I am in the ring I can see every shot that is coming,” Mayweather (40-0) said.

Mayweather went off as a minus 350 betting favorite (risk $3.50 to net $1) at the MGM on Saturday after a late line move toward the underdog. In betting odds updated Sunday at all Lucky’s sports books in Nevada, Mayweather is listed as a minus 170 favorite against Pacquiao and as a minus 300 favorite against Mosley.

Mayweather Sr. saw at least a little room for improvement in his son’s dominant showing Saturday and expects him to be sharper in his next fight — a sobering assessment for either Pacquiao or Mosley.

“Rust means a lot,” Mayweather Sr. said. “I don’t care what anybody says. You ain’t fought in two years and you fight again, it’s going to feel different. If Floyd had never took time off, he would have stopped him. He would have been in fighting shape, no rust.

“He wasn’t rusty like completely gone. But he didn’t let his hands go. If he did, you would have seen a different ending to the fight. You would have seen a stoppage.”

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009...ht-mayweather/

wont happen if manny loses

[johncods]

NO NO NO.. Cotto is a beast, arguably no1 WW in the world. As big a pac fan I am im still 50/50 with this fight because of the size and strength advantage cotto has. IF pac beats cotto and floyd plays hard ball on the negotiations then floyd can **** himself. pac can retire and be remembered as an ATG.. he dont need floyd..

[UnDeniable]

Oscar was trying to sell the May-Mosley fight and nobody was buying it

Shane should face Berto, Floyd has to settle this fued with Pacquiao

[Pullcounter]

this fight aint happening... the negotiations will die pathetically

[big_james10]

If Pac beats Cotto, I believe that Mayweather/Pac will do between 1.5 million and 2 million PPV. It won't beat Oscar/Mayweather, but it will be bigger than any other fight below heavyweight. However, if the Floyd/Marquez numbers shock me and turn out to be above 1 million PPV, I will adjust this number and say 2-2.5 million PPV. Of course the Mayweather haters will say that all but 20,000 of those PPV were because of Pacquaio.