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Arum is dodgey and corrupt and people should take his words with a grain of salt, like they should with all promoters because more or less all of them lie whenever it suits them.You can't toss Floyd around at the negotiating table, give him an ultimatum such as a drug testing window or a deadline with a countdown and he'll laugh at it. The negotiating table has a name on it: property of Floyd Mayweather Jr. Love it or hate it, but he's businessman no1 in boxing and he gives the ultimatums. But Bob Arum once again made it look like Mayweather's solely responsible for screwing up a fight that never came close due to BOTH sides.
Floyd's main demand was and still is random drug testing, and how it's properly done, take it or leave it, and Pacquiao's side said no thank you & made the home grown Clottey fight in the Cowboys instead. Arum made ****loads of money as the sole promoter and getting the huge site fee, and in the meantime, Floyd took on the Shane Mosley that Pac refused to face even at 140, and dominated the World WW Champ. Do you seriously think he's afraid of Pac?
It is being reported that Pacquaio's side still did NOT agree to random blood/urine testing up to the fight so in reality nothing changed, you can make a countdown all you want and it's still like "President ***** has 10 days to take an arm-wrestle fight and he's a coward if he doesn't" - he's unlikely to show up. And that is Bob Arum's genious: he knows exactly what it takes to make the fight - the proper testing of the Shane fight - and he knows how to give looking-good-to-the-media demands to Floyd who's likely to refuse them, allowing Arum to make the next installment of all-income-to-me Top Rank only fight while the blame is on Floyd. This is the 2nd use of this trick this year.
Maybe Bob Arum likes the idea of Floyd-Pac, but he definitely likes the idea of Pac-Clottey, Pac-Cotto and Pac-Margarito better and what a promotion it is having!
I asked "do you seriously think Floyd gives a **** about Bob Arum's deadline"? Well, the Bobfather knew the answer before he asked the question. It is called a BLUFFING.
At the end of the day, none of us know much, we don't know what was agreed on, we found out Arum was stretching the truth, etc. and at the end of the day the Roger thing has to be taken seriously, nobody expects Manny to fight without Freddie.
Up to now all of them are to blame and all of them are as bad as each other, there egos are getting in the way of everything.Comment
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I think he is seriously scared of losing his "paper 0".
He definitely avoided a prime Cotto and a possibly plastered Margo @ 147; he always had an reason NOT to fight. Never fought Tszyu @ 140. The highest risk he has weathered in the last 4-5 years is Judah, back when Judah was good, but had already lost his own "0" to due being a mental midget.
Floyd has consistently, since he moved up in weight, found reasons not to fight opponents that have a chance against him.Comment
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..........Go on you can call the mods at any time.
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