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by David P. Greisman - We’ve gone from prolonged frustration to hopeless resignation following the failure of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to get into the ring with each other. We’ve gone from leveraging to bickering, from negotiation to litigation.
We’ve had Pacquiao pursue a defamation lawsuit against Mayweather that has dragged on, with the case spreading to filings in other states, and as their attorneys have filed enough motions that the combined case dockets now probably outweigh both Pacquiao and Mayweather put together.
We need some momentary Mayweather/Pacquiao levity.
The last location you’d think we’d find it would be back in the judicial system — that same system that has become the only place in which “Pacquiao vs. Mayweather” is a reality.
But that’s indeed where we find it, beginning with a one-page, one-paragraph civil motion, scrawled out by hand and filed May 11, 2009, with the U.S. District Court’s Central District of Illinois, located in Rock Island. [Click Here To Read More]
We’ve had Pacquiao pursue a defamation lawsuit against Mayweather that has dragged on, with the case spreading to filings in other states, and as their attorneys have filed enough motions that the combined case dockets now probably outweigh both Pacquiao and Mayweather put together.
We need some momentary Mayweather/Pacquiao levity.
The last location you’d think we’d find it would be back in the judicial system — that same system that has become the only place in which “Pacquiao vs. Mayweather” is a reality.
But that’s indeed where we find it, beginning with a one-page, one-paragraph civil motion, scrawled out by hand and filed May 11, 2009, with the U.S. District Court’s Central District of Illinois, located in Rock Island. [Click Here To Read More]
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