Comments Thread For: Mayweather: If I Beat Canelo, They Will Create More Foes

[Basco]

Canelo vs Lara needs to happen!!!! Winner gets Floyd! That will be my dream matches!

[Brail]

Late 2009 Mayweather and Pacquiao enter into negotiations for a fight through their respective representatives. Mayweather asks for USADA Olympic style drug testing to be administered and Manny Pacquiao balks. Top Rank and Pacquiao in turn demand that a $10,000,000 per pound weight penalty be amended to the contract and Mayweather agrees. Even with Mayweather relenting to his demands Pacquiao still refuses to accept Mayweather's drug testing demands. A variety of excuses as to why Pacquiao cannot be drug tested including fear of needles are bandied about and the fight negotiations begin to circle the toilet bowl.

Pacquiao "flat out" walks away from mediation of negotiations where a cut off date of 14 days before fight night for USADA Olympic style drug testing is offered telling his representatives in his own word's that he's "not doing that" and immediately files a defamation law suit. (Opposing litigants in a defamation law suit almost never do business with one another because the plaintiffs case would assuredly be dropped by the court. You can't at once claim damages for being defamed and then also enter into a business agreement to be enriched with a multi million dollar contract by the same party. Any judge or jury would see straight through that. So when Pacquiao filed the lawsuit he effectively killed any chance of negotiating a fight until the lawsuit was either decided or dropped.)

In the summer of 2011 Bob Arum claims that he is negotiating a fight with Pacquiao and Mayweather but at the same time admits that HBO executive producer/documentarian Ross Greenburg, who does not represent Floyd Mayweather, is the only person that he has had any communication with. Then he puts a count down clock on the Top Rank website as an arbitrary time for Mayweather to agree to terms that were never even presented to any of his emissaries. Meanwhile Pacquiao still has an open lawsuit against Mayweather.

In 2012 Mayweather calls Manny Pacquiao on the phone and offers him $40,000,000 of his own personal money to fight him and Pacquiao balks once again. Claiming to be embarrassed by the offer because of the lack of an offer to share any of the PPV profits. Yet he continues to pay attorney's to pursue a defamation suit against Mayweather. The lawsuit has been dropped since but so has Pacquiao from a counter straight right from longtime rival Juan Manuel Marquez. And Pacquiao was knocked out cold when he drooped and effectively knocked out of the running for a Mayweather showdown.

These are indisputable facts. And they paint the picture of Manny Pacquiao and Top Rank doing everything that they can to avoid negotiating an actual fight with Mayweather while trying to sell to the public that they were trying to make the fight happen through the thinnest veil of deception/media manipulation.

A cliche that speaks so true to the limitations of Bob Arum's masterfully honed media manipulation: You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

So the next time that you try to claim that Floyd "flat out ducked" Pacquiao remember that some of us actually know the facts.

Excellent Post.

[IIG]

Both Dan Rafael and Kevin Iole are reporting rumors of a very low PPV buy number for Mayweather-Guerrero. Showtime is really losing money on this deal. I expect for a hell of a push to get Canelo in as the next opponent.

[jray100k]

If Cotto gives Canelo a L like most people think he is....Canelo can forget about facing Mayweather. Cotto has had enough time to rest so expect a revived Cotto. But Money May is correct...he can't win for WINNING! There will be another foe after each W. But 5 more wins and it's over. Then everyone will need to call him Floyd "The G.O.A.T" Mayweather.

[Gratide]

PBF has earned the right to fight anyone he likes . I have the right not to pay someone pick a patsy and embrass them . have fun Floyd , there lots of good fights out there that doesn't involve you .

i like ginger , manny , jmm , bradley , martinez , wilder and others , PBF does not need to be in my universe .

[Chaos]

Excellent Post.

Actually that's a sh_t post. There's so many and omissions I don't know where to begin.

[al-Xander]

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That means he's scared of Canelo.
Just like what his fanboys say,
Canelo is too big for their idol.

The guy needs to retire.

[Roy Hobbs]

seems like a complete cop out statement by floyd. he's the current 2x 154lb champion. there should be no reason for him not to fight saul alvarez, this statement seems odd and dishonest considering he has said he will fight 5 more times.

if that's true, why say this?

[Allucard]

Please Floyd... just fight Canelo & prove everyone wrong... then just retire.

Floyd is right. It will never end. Pacquiao was "there" to be the foe. Now it's canela... Just don't fight them, that will make them mad but it will end it.

[Allucard]

PBF has earned the right to fight anyone he likes . I have the right not to pay someone pick a patsy and embrass them . have fun Floyd , there lots of good fights out there that doesn't involve you .

i like ginger , manny , jmm , bradley , martinez , wilder and others , PBF does not need to be in my universe .

Pretty much. People don't realize Floyd is cashing out. That's what he's doing. In his 20's he was proving himself. He was still proving himself in his early 30's unlike so many others nowadays and now he approaches 40 people still demand him to prove himself? **** that. Floyd wants to keep that 0, no illusions of invincibility and who can blame him? Just appreciate him while you have him.