Who Will Blink First – HBO or Mayweather?

[NesNY]

UFC 120 live from England....ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE in the US (well...whatever you pay for cable I guess).


Shane Mosley v. Sergio Mora = $44.95.

BWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! lmao!!!

Boxing will have an almost impossible task of being mainstream any time this century.

[1nonlymre]

Who Will Blink First – HBO or Mayweather?
Published by Scoop Malinowski on October 15th, 2010



Everybody knows now that Floyd Mayweather does not want to get it on with Manny Pacquiao. The disgraceful American has done nothing but put up hurdles and make excuses to block the biggest fight in boxing history from being made.

Instead of just boxing the “one-dimensional midget” for a payday which could exceed $30 or $40 million, Mayweather has avoided the fight by making unfounded drug charges, taking a vacation, lack of urge, desire to devote time to kids at his gym, etc.
It’s obvious Mayweather is waiting for the storm to pass, hoping Pacquiao loses, so then he could come out of hiding and boast himself again as the world’s best boxer.

And HBO will call Al Haymon again and it will be back to the good ol’ days of big money for easy, han****ed fights for Team Mayweather.

I believe there is a high stakes game of “chicken” being played now between HBO and Mayweather. HBO still aspires to produce the Superfight of all superfights – Mayweather vs. Pacquiao – where the jackpot could exceed, by some published estimates, over $200,000,000.

However, Mayweather does not want that fight because he doubts his skills and has come to believe he will be violently beaten up and knocked out by the awe-inspiring Pacquiao. Mayweather is clearly spooked by Pacquiao’s mystique, talent, class and humility. He knows it would be career suicide to step in the ring with Pacquiao, so he is hoping that by holding out, he will eventually get his own way – which is to fight no-hopers like Matt Hatton or Nate Campbell for big money.

It’s going to come down to who blinks first, HBO or Mayweather. It is a question of if HBO will surrender and back off it’s position of forcing Mayweather to fight Pacquiao. Or will Mayweather say to himself, Ah, the hell with it, I’m 34 going on 35, I can’t wait any longer, I got to cash in now and take the cash and hope and pray I can bluff my way to a points win over Pacquiao.

If HBO surrenders early next year and gives Mayweather what he wants – a free pass out of his electric chair execution date with Pacquiao in the form of easy money, tune-up HBO dates, it will only show that HBO is run by an office of incompetents, who clearly do not have the experience or savvy to control a punk like Mayweather.

HBO must hold firm and wait until Mayweather caves. Otherwise, if HBO caves first, in essence, HBO will be rewarding cowardice. HBO will be supporting, financing and promoting a fraud. What kind of message would this send to the next wave of top American fighters and their advisors? That they can duck and dodge the best, most risky opposition – and still be rewarded for it by the foolish TV networks.

HBO must make an example out of Mayweather and by all means, force him to fight Pacquiao, which will be for the overall good of the future of the sport.

If HBO caves in and lets this little bastard Mayweather dictate and call the shots, the future of boxing is in jeopardy. I’m telling you, it will be in jeopardy. You don’t believe me? Well, look back to the Ali and Tyson eras, did you ever think boxing in America could become so irrelevant as it is today? It could even get worse. A lot worse.

The Al Haymon music industry formula of how to manufacture a star with handpicked opponents with HBO dates has completely failed in boxing – as the examples of Arreola, Taylor, Jacobs, Berto, Kaufmann, illustrate. Dirrell and Williams, despite their talents, are virtually unknown outside of the hardcore boxing fans.

Haymon, with all the help he’s got from HBO over the recent years, has created zero boxing superstars in the United States, a big fat zero. NASCAR drivers and hockey players are now bigger stars than the most talented American boxers. Which is a far cry from the way it was in the 1970′s and 80′s.

It’s simple. Boxing will only shine if the best fights are made, the events that the fans want to see – not the fights that Al Haymon and Floyd Mayweather and the other self interests want.

If HBO can’t understand that fact, then it’s just a matter of time before HBO destroys itself and quite potentially, the sport of boxing in America.

I believe the main article makes good points, although I didn't have to quote the entire article just to state this.

[al-Xander]

As far as I know, HBO had been blinking in terms of Floyd.
Question is, when is it going to stop blinking?

[antrob]

All I know is November through December is filled with great fights and Mayweather is not apart of any of them.

[Agent Mulder]

what kind of serious journalist refers to an athlete like "the little bastard mayweather"?

oh and the amount of alts on nsb is truly pathetic.

[antrob]

UFC 120 live from England....ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE in the US (well...whatever you pay for cable I guess).


Shane Mosley v. Sergio Mora = $44.95.

BWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! lmao!!!

Boxing will have an almost impossible task of being mainstream any time this century.

That's just one example. November through December are packed with great fights, with most of them on Regular HBO or Showtime. Also in January we are getting the Devon Alexander- Tim Bradley fight also on regular HBO. And isn't for the most part, almost all of the UFC cards are on PPV?

[infamous larryx]

dumbass article..there are alot of other thing to write about other than floyd ..how bout wtire about the maga fight next month..manny-margarito

[jrosales13]

Scoop is to Floyd what Manuel Perez is to Pac. And, I guess Perez owns ESB.

Anyways Scoop article sucks and from what I hear the whole Tyson "I fuck you, till you love me faggot" speech was aimed at Scoop after the Lewis press conference scuffle.

It seems that Scoop is a racist, so fuck him.

[FloydTBE]

love him/hate him just talk about him

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Scoop is really beginning to grow on me....brilliant wordsmith that guy...


the way he can pinch the collective twats of all *****s from one write up is pure brilliance