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

[Vasyl’s dad]

Because he had subsequetly won the WBC Welterweight title from Berto

[Floyd]Belts just collect dust[/Mayweather]



You need to come better than that.

[AgainstTheRopes]

Arum won't answer. He's content letting Pacquaio fight recycled fights with Marquez and Bradley.

[kurt0411]

Im still a bit confused, could someone clarify?

How is the money still an issue? Say its 60-40: 60 goes to mayweather and 40 goes to pacquiao with arum taking 20% or whatever from pacquiaos share. Surely it doesnt affect floyd?

[thebowtod]

Comparing a win for Ali to a KO loss for Pacquiao.

ya know if you read the post it says he lost to both ken norton and frazier not too long before he fought foreman. and if you actually watched the ali frazier fight, it was brutal as hell, ali got his ass kicked the last few rounds and was straight up out on his feet.

[Vasyl’s dad]

Im still a bit confused, could someone clarify?

How is the money still an issue? Say its 60-40: 60 goes to mayweather and 40 goes to pacquiao with arum taking 20% or whatever from pacquiaos share. Surely it doesnt affect floyd?

But it affects Floyds kids here. They will have less to brag about.


They don't have fathers, so they look up to Floyd.

[KING MEAT]

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

heres the full espinoza and la times video interview. some parts are not mentioned in the written report.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[Jam Jars]

ya know if you read the post it says he lost to both ken norton and frazier not too long before he fought foreman. and if you actually watched the ali frazier fight, it was brutal as hell, ali got his ass kicked the last few rounds and was straight up out on his feet.

He got a win over both Frazier and Norton before a Foreman fight, the Frazier loss was 3 years before. If Pacquiao had a win over a quality opponent after his KO loss maybe the comparison would make more sense.

[lebrick]

ya know if you read the post it says he lost to both ken norton and frazier not too long before he fought foreman. and if you actually watched the ali frazier fight, it was brutal as hell, ali got his ass kicked the last few rounds and was straight up out on his feet.

don't try to argue using logical facts with these guys.. it's too hard for them..

[jqSide]

Showtime is running out of options for Floyd. They're trying to avert another Guerrero-type flop. They probably realized Floyd on his own can't lay golden eggs.

[boxingfeind]

Pacquiao doesn't have a contract with HBO but Arum has a deal with them doesn't he? Which is basically the same as Pacquiao having a deal with them.

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