Comments Thread For: Manny Pacquiao Expects To Face Mayweather "Next Year"

[DoomCity202]

i stopped reading at the first line

you could tell it was about to be a biased article

Mayweather didnt promise him **** so he should fight the best available

[richardt]

The name is peplz. Learn to read a little.

Whatever turns you on, Pep.

[peplz]

Don't tell me you're offended. Because you were just talking like you were so proud of your powers yesterday. The gift and the curse I guess.

[brick wall]

Brick what is the real roadblock, the OST request, or pac's refusal to sign contract because of OST test? Is it fair to say a reasonable request is a roadblock?

i don't really care who you want to blame and who do you think put the roadblock.

i'm just being real...if floyd did not bring up ost in the first negotiation the fight would have already happened. but floyd brought it up...if pac accepted it the fight would have already happened. was floyd required to demand ost? NO. was pac required to accept additional testing? NO. they're both divas and as long as their fans will fight for them the more they will become bigger divas.

[iNDOLiFER]

spare me of that garbage...it's pretty normal for fighters to lose. it happened to all time greats...they lost fights, they came back and win more fights. you talk as if coming from a loss is the very indication of what going to happen in the next fight.

pac only fought top rank fighters and floyd only fought gbp fighters...what's the difference? why would arum keep pac away from floyd? if floyd did not bring up ost the fight would have already happened. and if pac accepted ost the fight would have already happened. same ****

Agreed!!! If Floyd never demanded ost or if PAC would have accepted it the first time then the fight would have been made. Arum might not be the most likable guy but He's a business man and to say it's arum whose holding up the fight is quite funny.

[richardt]

Pac's team asked Mayweather's team asking what the consequences would be if Drugs were found in Pac-man's system

Not true, that was a falsified story based on an email some anonymous person sent to the Mayweather camp to stir up troubles.

[tomhawq]

Why does MAnny say he is fighting floyd next year when prior to the Mosley fight he said he didn't need to fight floyd for his legacy? WHat has changed in the last 3-5 months that has led Manny to change his mind?

you floyd fans are strange people. you always see cobwebs when nobody else does. pacquiao put the sport back into the world map at a time when mayweather was content being a fan. it's big money and an honor to fight the most popular man in boxing. if you are in that position, you don't have to call out any boxer. however, roach did call out mayweather for like hundred times. floyd, as it turned out, had to be a real pu55y before getting in the ring with pac. which made pac say that he doesn't need mayweather. but that he will do it for the fans. as you know, pac never brings up floyd unless he's asked. wouldn't you if you're a real fan?

[richardt]

Don't tell me you're offended. Because you were just talking like you were so proud of your powers yesterday. The gift and the curse I guess.

Whatever turns you on Pepe.

[Brother Jay]

When you see a guy how writtes so much, you can easily think he's telling the truth and being logical.... but let's analyze the third line:

Hatton: coming from victories over Lazcano and Malignaggi
Cotto: victories over Jennings and Clottey (top welter)
Clottey: coming from a close loss to Cotto in a great fight
Mosley: coming from a loss and a draw
Margarito: coming from a victory over Roberto Garcia
De la Hoya: coming from a victory over Forbes.

......................... So it's clear that your argument "Its bad enough that Pacquiao's last 6 opponents have ALL been coming off the biggest losses of their careers" is all bull**** !!

They were coming off of the biggest losses of their careers. Whether you understand that or not is of no consequence.

Lazacano, Malignaggi, Jennings, Clottey, Garcia, and Forbes are FCUKING NOBODIES. For you to call Clottey a TOP WW when the man doesn't have even one significant win over a top 5 WW shows just how fcuking ****** you really are.

Its a common practice in boxing to get your fighter a minor win before putting him into a mega fight to lay down as a sacrificial lamb.

At least Cotto fought Clottey who had lost to every significant WW he's ever fault. The other guys were not and are not even relevant. And they will never be relevant. They were opponents, not challengers.

Who is Derrell Coley? Who is Hacine Cherifi? Who is Jose Luis Cruz? Who is Elco Garcia? I'll tell you who these men are.

In order, these are the men that DLH, Trinidad, Mosley and Forrest beat after they lost in order to be coming off of a win in their next bout against a contender.

If you really understood boxing, you'd know that a tune up against a nobody means absolutely nothing in terms of status. Its shaking off ring rust and giving THE ODDSMAKERS a performance to gauge how well a fighter MIGHT do.

The mere fact that you would name Lazacano, Malignaggi, Jennings, Clottey, Garcia, and Forbes as justifications of those fighters not coming off career crushing losses shows that you're not a real fan and DEFINITELY not a competent one. You're desperately hoping that citing tune ups against club fighters will strengthen your bull****.

Take a long look at what your're suggesting.

Lazacano, Malignaggi, Jennings, Clottey, Garcia, and Forbes didn't change the fact that they were all ranked at 5th except for Cotto, who was 4th because Arum set up a vacant title match to sweeten the Pacquiao win. If those so-called matches somehow did ANYTHING other than give the oddsmakers an updated measuring stick and afford Pacquiao's opponents a chance to get vacant paper titles to lose to Manny, WRITE THAT **** HERE AND I WILL CONCEDE THE POINT IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE FORUM.

Forgive me if I don't hold my breath.

ITS OFFICIAL .... YOUR AN IDIOT! You just wasted so much time blabbing about dumb sh** pacquiao is the greatest fighter there is rigt now and so is Floyd, they will fight, just more drama for the build up end of story

You are a simple minded peasant. Arum doesn't even have to work hard to spin his bull**** because he knows that there are legions of devoted peasants just dying to follow his gospel.

You think you you've got the brains to match your balls, peasant?

Then simply answer the following question with facts and figures.

HOW DOES A FIGHTER WHO HAS NOT FOUGHT A #1 FIGHTER SINCE COMPETING AT LW MAKE A CASE FOR BEING THE #1 WW OR FOR THAT MATTER #1 ANYTHING WHEN HE CONTINUES TO FIGHT 5TH RANKED FIGHTERS?

No matter how big a name, if that fighter is ranked 5th and is not beating other fighters ranked #1, 2 or 3 then he isn't making a case for being a top fighter.

Its really that simple.

Now, you can tuck your tail between your legs and start with "Even so and so said Pacquiao is the best .." or "Even this magazine or that magazine said Pacquiao is the best". Or you can act like an adult and use your own words to explain how a man who has avoided champions and top fighters throughout his career, been knocked out by C fighters and outboxed by B fighters is #1.

Activity against mediocrity < Victories over the #1, 2 & 3 fighters in every division competed in, much in the same way that Quantity < Quality.

I'll be looking forward to your brilliant response and answer to that question that I posed to you.

That ought to be good for a laugh.

[The Big Dunn]

Agreed!!! If Floyd never demanded ost or if PAC would have accepted it the first time then the fight would have been made. Arum might not be the most likable guy but He's a business man and to say it's arum whose holding up the fight is quite funny.

The point is a request in and of itself is not a roadblock. But a refusal IS a roadblock.

I think now that we have seen Top Rank's strategy for MAnny at ww, it seems clear if they fought 2 years ago the TR round robin ww tourney wouldn't have been as financially successful.