Floyd - Manny Negotiations Timeline Part 2

[IMDAZED]

What's bias about facts?

You didn't expect them to have a serious response, did you?

Wait, here's a better question: How could they possibly have a serious response to links (from many publications) that are archived and destroy their debate?

[sweetscience18]

Bump bump bump..i encourage all the posters who have been annoyed for the padt year by floyd haters to bump this thread until they admit the truth.

[Bermuda]

pacquiao pretty much says he doesn't have a problem with full random blood testing now, and mayweather says he "absolutely" wants to fight pac. also, floyd is going to fight a fast and strong southpaw and pac is going to fight an intelligent boxer/counterpuncher this year. So it seems like there is a good chance the two fighters will meet next year unless some other road block pops up.

[sweetscience18]

pacquiao pretty much says he doesn't have a problem with full random blood testing now, and mayweather says he "absolutely" wants to fight pac. also, floyd is going to fight a fast and strong southpaw and pac is going to fight an intelligent boxer/counterpuncher this year. So it seems like there is a good chance the two fighters will meet next year unless some other road block pops up.

Hopefully we get to see what weve been waitin for.

[Vegan101]

Everybody knows Pacquiao agreed with OST, so let's wait and see what Gayweather next demand.

I can smell another demand to duck Pacquiao.

[sweetscience18]

Everybody knows Pacquiao agreed with OST, so let's wait and see what Gayweather next demand.

I can smell another demand to duck Pacquiao.

Read the timeline...

[Dedication]

Read the timeline...

I think he can't read. Write, yes... but read, no no no...

[sweetscience18]

I think he can't read. Write, yes... but read, no no no...

Cant read see or hear for themselves..*******s please stop using Mannys ******* as a source for information because in it you will only find two things..needles and arums ****.

[ThePrince]

A) Did we ever get an actual explanation of why the President/Owner of Golden Boy AKA Mayweather's defacto promotional company would randomly say, on live TV in front of a camera, that negotiations were occurring and contracts were close? How can you be 'misquoted' on camera?

Didn't he say he was getting tired of people asking him about the fight so he spun a tale about negotiations and contracts? Come one now.

B) Did Floyd and co ever explain why they all of a sudden 'weren't thinking about boxing' and didn't bother to enter into negotiations. How is that not a clear duck? Guys are ready to iron out a deal and you just say, '**** that, we takin a year or 2 off'.

C) That timeline is incomplete, some missing details:

Ross Greenburg:

Before the timeline ran out:

"I can't talk about it," Greenburg told Newsday. "I'm right in the middle of shutting everyone down. We have to do it quietly. This cannot get into the papers. If it gets in the papers, all of a sudden, it takes on a life of its own like it did in December and January, and it becomes very difficult to make the fight. We all kind of shook hands and said, 'Let's keep quiet and do it out of the press and get it done.'

"We're going to try to make it happen. That's all I can say."

-Ross Greenburg, HBO Sports President
June 4, 2010 Newsday.com

After Negotiations:

"Both times, the fight was very close to being made. And, the second time around, you know, all that I can say is that you would have to ask Floyd Mayweather why the fight wasn't made. To this day, I really don't know why Floyd decided that he didn't want the fight any more in the fall.

To this day, I don't know why he wanted to take some more time off. Only Floyd has that answer. I certainly don't have that answer. But, you know, it was very close. It was so, so, close. I think that it was so close that I don't think that it's going to take much to make the fight the third time around."

Schaefer, the Golden Boy CEO who has promoted Mayweather's last several fights, has been one of the chief game players if there really were no talks, because he absolutely made it seem clear that talks were going on, time and again. Why else would he talk about a so-called "gag order" in discussing negotiations publicly?

I'd ask him about it and he'd say stuff like, "Talking about the negotiations isn't going to help get the fight made, so I'm not going to talk about them." He'd also say, "Come on, stop asking me about the negotiations. You know I am not going to talk about them."

-Dan Rafael, ESPN
July 21, 2010

Team Mayweather after their cover was blown and they had to scramble for reasons they weren't fighting and going on 'vacation' instead. If you recall, not a single mention of drug testing/OST was made until this year (2011):

"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."

“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.”

Fighting Manny with trials scheduled would be disrespectful to a judge and the legal system but taking on Ortiz with 4 cases pending AND skipping out on court-mandated depositions is perfectly respectful. LOL.

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.”

Can we stop with the revisionist history now? We're just going to get a repeat of that same bull**** come November 13th anyway. All we're going to hear about is how Floyd can't make a fight because of trials, taxes, vacations.

Can't wait. Oh, is Gary Coleman making a timeline for the South Africa negotiations?

[Vegan101]

Read the timeline...

I don't read articles written by crackheads.

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