Mayweather/Pacquiao negotiations - Key events

[IMDAZED]

There you go champ, this one's on the house

Bob Arum disputes Mayweather's claim


Undefeated welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been mostly quiet and out of the boxing picture since his arrest on domestic battery charges in September. Mayweather appeared in court last month to face the felony charges, but his hearing was moved to March.

But the controversial boxer, who is on boxing fans' most wanted list for a megafight against Manny Pacquiao that could be the richest in boxing history, did a rare interview late last month with Fighthype.com.
In that wide-ranging interview, Mayweather said, "After the first negotiations didn't come through, nobody reached out to Al (Haymon, Mayweather's manager)" regarding a fight with Pacquiao, and "we didn't hear anything from Bob Arum."

Arum on Wednesday called that absurd. "We not only reached out, we had a full negotiation with (HBO Sports President) Ross Greenburg being the intermediary with Al Haymon back before the Margarito fight. And that came to nothing. And I assume Haymon advised Floyd that we were negotiating the fight through Greenburg. But (saying) we didn't reach out to Haymon was total nonsense.

"As far as Floyd is concerned, we've attempted to reach him without any success. He knows where we are. And none of his people have ever called us. The idea that we haven't reached out is absurd. … We've gotten no calls from him. …

"Why the hell should we reach out to Al Haymon when they have constantly said that they're not interested in fighting? Let them call us. … I'm not going to reach out to them like I'm chasing them. But if they said to a responsible newspaper or somebody responsible, 'We want to fight Manny Pacquiao,' I would make the call."

HBO had no comment on the subject, and Mayweather's adviser, Leonard Ellerbe, could not be reached by phone.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2011-02-03-floyd-mayweather-jr_N.htm

LMAO @ full negotiations...with HBO

Oh that Bob...he's so clever.

[Chups]

Chups, I get what you're saying. At the same time though they provided sources. If Philboxing did something like this with sources, I'd be a little disappointed yes, but I wouldn't go on BS saying it's complete and utter BS because it's Philboxing, I'd look foolish because they provided sources outside of their website. You honestly think guys at ESPN are gonna release this? The same media outlet who called Floyd a coward and there boxing writer who is one of the biggest nuthuggers I've ever seen besides Ellie Sechback in Fat Dan. They provided sources meng, they're not saying "OH BLAH BLAH MANNY DUCKED BLAHBLAH ACCORDING TO KARCENO'S SITE" etcetc. They're using multiple "legit" sources. Don't take it so blunt bro, but I think you mad.

No man....I ain't mad...I really don't care tho...... lol.
I'm just here to piss and own IMDAZED. I don't like posters who calls himself unbiased when he's really a *****.

[Discipline]

Glad a full documented timeline has been compiled.

[Chups]

Its not there cause the timeline is things during negotiations. Not off the cuff interviews and opinions.

smh...

Again....it's called picking what favors them.

The several Interviews made by Senior where inside the negotiations. There are about 4 or 5 of them that I have watched. It's impossible that those are NOT relevant to the compilation....when they put Candid interviews of Freddie Roach in there.

[Cotto's Father]

Again....it's called picking what favors them.

The several Interviews made by Senior where inside the negotiations. There are about 4 or 5 of them that I have watched. It's impossible that those are NOT relevant to the compilation....when they put Candid interviews of Freddie Roach in there.

FIGHTHYPE AY ISANG ***** pag-aari SITE

[p4p-champ]

LOL@ fighthype.......*****s rejoice! It's comparable to *******s reading Philboxing.com.

Whats to rejoice, the truth? There are links to all the facts from plenty of OFFICIAL press releases, including some from this very site. It even has ESPN links, I'm sure you recall this is the place that loves to call Mayweather a coward. You know, the video all you ******* watch before going to bed every night.

[Ray*]

So they got tired of deleting it? Maybe its because the link was left in there.

[brick wall]

so floyd initially wanted the fight at 154 lbs with 10 oz gloves...no wonder pac demanded a big penalty for overweight.

[Legendary Hater]

"You can't stop FightHype...you can only hope to contain it."

Nothing like a detailed, factual timeline...lol

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[ThePrince]

[CENTER]if you arent gonna agree to RANDOM Testing....there is no point of Al Haymon negotiating......there is only 1 thing stopping this fight...and thats taking RANDOM blood test...

Funny that you say that because, and I'm hoping Part II of the timeline includes this, Floyd and company made no mention of blood testing when giving reasons for the 'vacation'.

Richard Schaefer:

“People should be smart enough to realize that he’s in the middle of legal proceedings. His focus and energy is on that, clearing his name, not on making a fight. That’s just common sense," Schaefer said.

“Anything else would be disrespectful to a judge or the legal system. … He could say, OK, let’s fight Pacquiao in May or whenever and make a deal. How would a judge feel about that? You just don’t do that.”

http://www.mlive.com/mayweather/inde...d_mayweat.html

Floyd Sr:

Instead, Mayweather Sr. suggested it was his son’s fear of Uncle Sam that’s preventing the biggest fight in boxing from taking place this year. “Make a million dollars in one year and see what Uncle Sam gonna do to you. So that’s what I’m talking about. Make $100 million in one year and see what Uncle Sam gonna do,” he would tell FightHype’s own Percy Crawford. “It would be like he ain’t never fought Shane. I’m telling you the real deal of how it is. That is the only reason they didn’t make the fight.”

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/426115-mayweather-sr-blames-the-irs-but-seems-confident-fight-will-happen-in-2011

Floyd:

"I'm not really thinking about boxing right now," Mayweather said. "I'm just relaxing. I fought about 60 days ago, so I'm just enjoying myself, enjoying life, enjoying my family and enjoying my vacation."

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/07/18/floyd-mayweather-im-not-really-thinking-about-boxing-right-no/

So yeah, according to the CEO of Floyd's defacto promotional company, it would've been disrespectful to a judge and the legal system to make a Pacquiao fight.... but fighting Ortiz with 3 cases pending and skipping out on court mandated depositions and trial dates is perfectly respectful

Floyd Sr said taxes were the only issue stopping his son from fighting, Floyd Jr said it was his pending vacation and the fact that he had fought too recently. Didn't really hear much about blood tests until those shirts came out, don't know why

And now the Mayweathers are saying Floyd can't fight until he gets more tuneups, so the OST argument is out the window since they won't step in the ring with Manny regardless. So seems like a lot of different reasons have been put forth for the vacation and hesitance to see Manny in the ring, wonder which one we should believe...

Oh well, guess we'll just have to wait on Big Ben to clear things up

Hope you have a wonderful day.