Showtime exec says he'll reach out about a Pac May fight. It's TIME!

[Jam Jars]

Is somebody paying you to say ****** things are you just ****** naturally?

Is it too hard to understand for you?

[Phenom]

Geez dude, can you just stop whining. They are both superstars. Show time even knows it. It's about the super fight. If your a boxing fan this is an olive branch. This comes once in a lifetime so quit with your lame excuse. They are the most popular Active boxers in the planet. Deal with it. Or you scared again? Floyd's back is against the wall? He will lose his 0? What's the problem scared? Dude have confidence in your guy. It's a super fight winner take all.

Pacquiao already has a fight scheduled for April and Espinoza saying "it has to be on showtime PPV since pacquiao is not tied to HBO" and" "I called Arum few times" while Arum saying "he didnt call me in 2years" and"both notworks have to do it" should be clear as day where is this going

but hey if you still want to buy into this BS then go for it

[boxingfeind]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...#axzz2lnCFiqL2


By Lance Pugmire

November 26, 2013, 2:49 p.m.

Achieving the impossible has to start somewhere, and after so many failed tries to make a Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao super-fight, there's an olive branch being extended.

Showtime Executive Vice President Stephen Espinoza, whose premium network has four fights remaining in its exclusive deal with the unbeaten Mayweather, said he plans to reach out this week to Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum to gauge interest in the bout.

Despite Arum's denials, Espinoza said he had made repeated efforts to talk to Arum on the telephone.

"But I haven't tried in awhile," Espinoza told The Times. "I will call Arum. This is an enticing enough opportunity to do it."

Although Mayweather seems headed to a May date in Las Vegas against England's Amir Khan, Pacquiao revived his stock with a convincing unanimous-decision victory over Oxnard's Brandon Rios over the weekend in Macao, China, after a brutal knockout loss to Juan Manuel Marquez in December.

Espinoza was clear that if the bout could be made it would be on Showtime pay-per-view, citing Mayweather's exclusive deal that started with unanimous-decision victories over Robert Guerrero in May and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in September.

"HBO, for whatever reason, doesn't have an exclusive deal with Manny Pacquiao, so there's no reason it can't be on Showtime," Espinoza said.

Mayweather's advisor Leonard Ellerbe and promoter Richard Schaefer, the Golden Boy Promotions chief executive who has assisted in the promotion of all of Mayweather's fights since 2007, did not immediately return telephone and e-mail messages left by The Times Tuesday.

Arum, working Tuesday to repair Pacquiao's tax issues that saw the fighter's bank accounts in the Philippines frozen Tuesday, said "I know of no calls" Espinoza "has made to me or my secretary in two years," and that the promoter doesn't want to engage in discussion of Mayweather-Pacquiao in the newspaper.

But Arum added, "My idea is to go back to the model that was used in the" Mike Tyson-Lennox Lewis "fight, where both networks did it.

"Let's ... everyone be adults and put the ... fight on," Arum said. "Whoever wins in the ring, wins in the ring. But talking about it before we do anything is ******."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sports...#ixzz2lpchLh7j

Bob Arum doesn`t want the fight,he was just blowing smoke when he said he wants to make Floyd vs Pacquiao next.Its because he does`t want people boycotting Top Rank PPV`s lol.Pacquiao only big PPV left on Top Rank is Bradley.After that no one is gonna pay to see Pacquiao boring @$$ unless he fights a big name.So Arum can`t keep avoiding putting Pacquiao in there with Floyd.

[A-Wolf]

I'll be asleep if anyone needs me.

[boxingfeind]

Is it too hard to understand for you?

I`m gonna do you a favor by not even asking you to explain,so you can avoid making an @$$ out of yourself.

[The Big Dunn]

Everyone knows its too much of a big money not to be made. Show time exec knows it. Strike while the iron is enticing enough to do it.

Yet bob and manny knew floyd had the mgm reserved for may 5th weekend so they announce he's coming back april 12th. So it sounds like the same ole stuff.

Let's hope the fight gets made. But if manny turns it down again for whatever reason be man enough to hold him accountable the same way you have been doing to jmm and tim for their turning down deals.

[Jam Jars]

I`m gonna do you a favor by not even asking you to explain,so you can avoid making an @$$ out of yourself.

What's to explain? If Top Rank have a deal with HBO it doesn't matter that Pacquiao doesn't.

[boxingfeind]

Geez dude, can you just stop whining. They are both superstars. Show time even knows it. It's about the super fight. If your a boxing fan this is an olive branch. This comes once in a lifetime so quit with your lame excuse. They are the most popular Active boxers in the planet. Deal with it. Or you scared again? Floyd's back is against the wall? He will lose his 0? What's the problem scared? Dude have confidence in your guy. It's a super fight winner take all.

Explain where he made excuses?Or is it the side effect of being a ******* making your brain go haywire again?The guy clearly insinuated that Arum is making excuses not to make the fight.And talking about excuses,what is your excuses for pac-juice when he turned down a 50-50 offer from Floyd back in 2009?The contract was sent to Pacquiao via Goldenboy but Pacquiao refused to sign sighting taking blood makes him weak.After that Floyd took his original offer off the table,so even if Pacquiao/Floyd happens,Pacquiao is gonna make a lot less then he would have had made had he agreed to random testing back in 2009,because Floyd is not let Pacquiao have 50% anymore.

[check hook]

Taking the facts and some other assertions at face value:

- Floyd is signed to an "exclusive" 6 fight showtime deal in a move designed to increase Showtimes status and market share of PPV vs more dominant rival HBO.

- Manny isn't signed to an exclusive deal with HBO, rather his contracts are done fight by fight, and he did fight on Showtime recently.

- Espinoza says he has tried to contact Arum numerous times. Arum says this isn't true at all

- Espinoza wants to get the fight made if possible, but ofcourse it would need to be on Showtime, otherwise why have an exclusive fight contract and share the fighter you've just poached.

- Arum says it can happen but would need to be HBO and Showtime co produced even though Manny has no binding contract to HBO and indeed Arum has taken him to Showtime in the past. So why is Arum insisting both networks be involved??

[kurt0411]

Explain where he made excuses?Or is it the side effect of being a ******* making your brain go haywire again?The guy clearly insinuated that Arum is making excuses not to make the fight.And talking about excuses,what is your excuses for pac-juice when he turned down a 50-50 offer from Floyd back in 2009?The contract was sent to Pacquiao via Goldenboy but Pacquiao refused to sign sighting taking blood makes him weak.After that Floyd took his original offer off the table,so even if Pacquiao/Floyd happens,Pacquiao is gonna make a lot less then he would have had made had he agreed to random testing back in 2009,because Floyd is not let Pacquiao have 50% anymore.

Yep im a pac fan but i agree with what you said. At the end of the day both really didnt want and still dont want the fight because if they both wanted to the fight would br made instantly