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By Rick Chandler
According to this tweet from TV.com sports reporter Molly E. Sullivan, the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight of myth and legend is suddenly becoming real; all set for late November in Las Vegas. Sullivan:
Lunch update from my #1 source in Vegas: Pacquio/Mayweather IS happening late Nov... Steve Wynn is building an outdoor venue just for fight.
Remember the days when news like this was reported by TV sports anchors with enormous hair?
Anyway, this fight appears to be on. Who ya got?
When last we left this fun couple, Mayweather's people were accusing Pacquiao of using steroids, and the Pacquiao camp was threatening to sue Mayweather for defamation. The two couldn't agree on when and where to conduct pre-fight and after-fight drug testing, and things devolved into both fighters calling each other poo-poo heads.
Since then (around Christmas time of last year), Pacquiao was elected to the Philippines House of Representatives, and then defeated Joshua Clottey for the IBF World Welterweight title. And Mayweather beat Shane Mosley for the WBA World Welterweight title.
The telling numbers were these: Pacquiao got only 700,000 pay per view buys for his fight with Clottey, a relatively small number for a fighter of his stature. Mayweather-Mosely got 1.4 million. So perhaps now Manny is willing to be a little more flexible with the drug testing demands? Maybe.
According to this tweet from TV.com sports reporter Molly E. Sullivan, the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight of myth and legend is suddenly becoming real; all set for late November in Las Vegas. Sullivan:
Lunch update from my #1 source in Vegas: Pacquio/Mayweather IS happening late Nov... Steve Wynn is building an outdoor venue just for fight.
Remember the days when news like this was reported by TV sports anchors with enormous hair?
Anyway, this fight appears to be on. Who ya got?
When last we left this fun couple, Mayweather's people were accusing Pacquiao of using steroids, and the Pacquiao camp was threatening to sue Mayweather for defamation. The two couldn't agree on when and where to conduct pre-fight and after-fight drug testing, and things devolved into both fighters calling each other poo-poo heads.
Since then (around Christmas time of last year), Pacquiao was elected to the Philippines House of Representatives, and then defeated Joshua Clottey for the IBF World Welterweight title. And Mayweather beat Shane Mosley for the WBA World Welterweight title.
The telling numbers were these: Pacquiao got only 700,000 pay per view buys for his fight with Clottey, a relatively small number for a fighter of his stature. Mayweather-Mosely got 1.4 million. So perhaps now Manny is willing to be a little more flexible with the drug testing demands? Maybe.
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