Comments Thread For: Arum on Mayweather-Pacquiao, Testing, Money, More

[illwill112]

this fight should be done in the public because bob arum is a liar why talk about hbo he might be tring to take manny off hbo so he can keep doing in house fights

Your right about this but both Arum and AMy are lairs. They should have both of them in public with press out there to get it straight. FLoyd has been contradicting himsell way to much and Arum is just full of it already.

I sitll think FLoyds is full of **** on fighting Pac. This will be one of the biggest fights in boxing. If FLoyd was serious he would have just contatced MAnny and made it happen and until that is done he will never satisfy the fans. He always be know as the one Ducking.

IF he was that serious about Pac why didn't he call him out at the end of the Ortiz fight instead going all emo like he did.

[JD Salinger]

Arum says you don't negotiate in the press and you don't set self imposed time limits. Yet, he gave Floyd a time limit with a countdown clock and negotiated in the press without anyone from the Money Team involved. WTF?!

i beg to differ with you. if i remember right, during the second negotiations (which floyd camp denied), there was a gag order for both camps. arum held private talks with floyd's camp thru hbo's ross greenburg first, before setting the deadline. the deadline is to enable top rank to scour other options for pac in case floyd doesn't agree to fight. they can not wait forever for floyd to decide can they? and we all know what happened. floyd's camp denied there ever was a negotiation that took place despite greenburg's confirmation that there was. unlike, this may5 fight that floyd set "allegedly" against pac, where floyd and his camp did not even consult or talk to pac's camp about before coming out in public. totally different things bro.

[rocktx]

Damn I was hopinf floyd was serious with may5 fightingpacman but arum made sense when he sid how can floyd lock mgm as venue if he is serious fitting pacman. A fight this big.you need to consider other venue as options. Floyd is ull of sh.it. and lol at Floyd guaranteeing himself 40 million bahajajaja

Not necessarily. Remember Floyd has his own promotions, so if he decided to lock up MGM grand he may have a good reason (maybe they get all of the money for the popcorn sold or all of the money for parking who knows?) . They may have already approached other venues and said hey this is the deal we want, and MGM may have been the only ones to oblige. If so he could still make more money going to MGM vs say cowboys stadium if jerry jones isn't willing to give him the profit off of popcorn sales.

Note: Of course im using popcorn as just an arbitrary example but it could be anything

[koboy]

Not necessarily. Remember Floyd has his own promotions, so if he decided to lock up MGM grand he may have a good reason (maybe they get all of the money for the popcorn sold or all of the money for parking who knows?) . They may have already approached other venues and said hey this is the deal we want, and MGM may have been the only ones to oblige. If so he could still make more money going to MGM vs say cowboys stadium if jerry jones isn't willing to give him the profit off of popcorn sales.

Note: Of course im using popcorn as just an arbitrary example but it could be anything

Shouldn't you LOCK the fight first. Lol. This is like the chicken and the egg. Which comes first, "Take the fight" or "Take the Test." Both are becoming notorious cherrypickers.

"Hey Floyd, Manny, Del Monte called they want them cherries back from their fruit cups, yo!"

[vercingetorix3]

There are too many egos among the parties involved for this fight to happen.

Does anybody know if Floyd is still willing to accept 50-50? Last I heard he wasn't.

[jtiger777]

this guy is a joke!!!!!

[jtiger777]

i beg to differ with you. if i remember right, during the second negotiations (which floyd camp denied), there was a gag order for both camps. arum held private talks with floyd's camp thru hbo's ross greenburg first, before setting the deadline. the deadline is to enable top rank to scour other options for pac in case floyd doesn't agree to fight. they can not wait forever for floyd to decide can they? and we all know what happened. floyd's camp denied there ever was a negotiation that took place despite greenburg's confirmation that there was. unlike, this may5 fight that floyd set "allegedly" against pac, where floyd and his camp did not even consult or talk to pac's camp about before coming out in public. totally different things bro.

how was there a gag order if arum came out giving floyd a time limit in the media?

[The Devil]

Arum is right. Mayweather Ortiz did just over 800k buys. Trust me I KNOW. Theyre just getting him press and by the time the real figure comes out it wont matter anymore and they can say its not true etc etc. The arena wasnt even full and they were giving tickets away for Floyd's cheap shot

[JD Salinger]

how was there a gag order if arum came out giving floyd a time limit in the media?

gag order was mutually agreed upon by both parties during negotiation. deadline was set after negotiation with floyd camp thru hbo's greenburg was finalized.

[STREET CLEANER]

Arum is a scumbag, nothing in that report is true. All he does is bend the truth for his agenda. Arum simply cannot stop talking about Floyd and has the nerve to say not to negotiate in the publics eye which Arum is consistantly doing.

The only way to see who is lying is by laying out a contract with terms that are within reason and see who doesn't sign