Floyd Mayweather shrugs off Pacman's number 1 contender status

[deejd]

Me too. Especially when he doesn't wanna make the fight.

Still waiting for that outdoor stadium.

[J The UnBiased]

Why won't you guys let the A Side be the A Side lol. Manny has absolutely no say in negotiations at this point. If Floyd wants Manny to take extra tests, If Manny wants the fight, he has to do it. If Floyd wants Arum gone, If Manny wants the fight, he has to do it. Floyd does not give a damn if this fight happens or not, point blank period, he could care less. So if MANNY wants the fight, guess what MANNY has to do.

[Big Pauly]

i put alot of the blame on bob arum for not making this fight,,,but richard schaffer comments have been making me think twice and floydcomments as well,,,,if floyd decides to fight khan thats fine,,,,but if mayweather is now giving up belts to avoid a fighter, NO EXCUSES IS ENOUGH to justify that,,,NONE,,,If Mayweather does that hes going to prove to the world hes running from pac..

[bose]

Floyd just don't want to lose the zero. Only he himself is not confident in his skills, or someone is talking in his ear saying Pac would take that zero away.

Fans of Floyd will always defend him, some even defending his managers choice in having him face Kahn. Sane people can not rationalize that fight.

[sugarsmosley]

If pacquiao is made the mandatory and mayweather drops the belt, I don't know how you could say he's not ducking him.

[carms]

Just seeing how the pac mayweather "super fight" has been going for all these years it would be a miracle to see the fight actually happen, either way I'm pretty sure mayweather would take the fight as well

[Shaniqua]

Why won't you guys let the A Side be the A Side lol. Manny has absolutely no say in negotiations at this point. If Floyd wants Manny to take extra tests, If Manny wants the fight, he has to do it. If Floyd wants Arum gone, If Manny wants the fight, he has to do it. Floyd does not give a damn if this fight happens or not, point blank period, he could care less. So if MANNY wants the fight, guess what MANNY has to do.

My brotha J tha Unbiased tellin it how it is!!

[tailchaser001]

I will give FMJ this. He conducts his business wisely. He's best business decision has been to avoid pac. Why risk it when he has a bunch of brainless followers who support this crap.

Why would Arum or anyone else deal with a guy who they know has no real intentions. He really does have a lot of people fooled. Except those that are smart enough to see past his BS.

Oh wait, you got Khan coming. Lol. I'd be embarrassed to be a floyd fan if this fight plays out.

Just don't call yourself a champ, floyd.

[Big Pauly]

Floyd just don't want to lose the zero. Only he himself is not confident in his skills, or someone is talking in his ear saying Pac would take that zero away.

Fans of Floyd will always defend him, some even defending his managers choice in having him face Kahn. Sane people can not rationalize that fight.

yea well he keeps saying pac is one and three his last three fights,,so i guess hes gonna step up and fight amir khan whos 2 and 2 his last four fights,,,with his last fight he looked ugly,,,,lol oh and be making only 1/4 the money....unbelievable

[edgarg]

Manny would beat the dog $h!t out of Floyd… god why does floyd have to be a coward?

I don't call this being a coward. Why should you expect that a guy should get himself beaten up badly (as you say) just so that you can have had the satisfaction of seeing it. I have been watching and reading boxing news arguably longer than anyone on this site. But lets just go back to the period when Mayweather was a 130 lb champion. It was a well-known fact, and often mentioned by analysts, promoters and writers, that Mayweather had what they called in print and on the air, his "Brains Trust". They would be discussing Mayweather's safety-first system of only having opponents where they'd spotted weaknesses that he was capable of exploiting. He slipped up badly with Jose Luis Castillo who really beat him well, up and down the ring. They had been fooled by the fact that he was supposed to have been very shop=worn, from being Julio Cesar Chavez' chief sparring partner for 7 years already. (He had only sc****d a draw with Stevie Johnson when he was nearly twice his size and maybe 20 lbs heavier). The judges' decisions were a fraud on Castillo and on the betting public. Just consider how much money would have been lost by the bookies if Castillo had got the decision..........

And on the "Brains Trust' point. Oscar used to be referred to as having one of them. They nearly slipped up badly with Ike Quartey. They DID slip up with Trinidad because they knew he'd had bad trouble making the weight for at least 2-3 years, and already had 15 Welterweight title defences the last 3-4 whilst already fighting as a light- middleweight too. So it was a well known fact, and he easily could have missed making the weight. At the weigh-ins, Trinidad would look like a skeleton with his ribs and bones sticking out.

Anyway, I don't blame Mayweather for not wanting to be beaten-up, I just don't like him, his manner, nor his life-style, but I couldn't care less. As far as his boxing goes, when he doesn't take a Hopkins approach (fouling on the ref's blind side) I appreciate his skill, but if I were fighting him and got an elbow in my throat, I'd do the very same and get my corner to complain to the ref. He's talked himself into being regarded as "The Greatest" just like Muhammed Ali did (it began as a PR stunt)....and neither of them has been -in my opinion at least.