Comments Thread For: Mayweather: In My Life, I'll Never Do Business With Arum!

[hitking]

Fooking excuse making duck. So we can officially say that floyd has ducked Manny.

Why does Pac need Arum introducing him on press tour stops in order to fight Floyd? Also, was Donaire ducking Mares when Arum offered GBP a step aside fee to promote Flash-Abner without them? Come on. Don't ya'll speak at once.

[Vasyl’s dad]

It's not like Floyd is really losing any money not fighting Manny now. I feel they will fight. Most likely it will be the final fight of his CBS/Showtime deal. From a financial perspective, as of today Manny needs Floyd so Floyd is going to drag it out as long as he can. If the shoe was on the other foot, Manny, rather TR would do the same.
Look at how long other mega fights were dragged out like Tyson vs Holyfield, but it still happened.

100 million, or 40 million. If you were Floyd, what would you rather have?

Yea, thought so. Hes losing money. Especially when he considers Pacquiao to be such an easy work, easy money fight.

[rocktx]

Man Arum is 82 years old. Why doesn't he just step down and go chill in the Ba***** somewhere. Hopefully he'll do that soon. Just let Todd take over all operations.

It's like a power trip with him or something. He's getting too old for all these shenanigans

[WalkerSmith1921]

Okay, so I get the fact that Floyd might possibly hate a dude (Bob) enough to not want to work with him to prevent said dude from making any money off him, but....Bob Arum has a net worth of more than Floyd himself. At that point, if this is truly the case, Floyd just needs to get over it. It's not like Arum is going to die starving or some ****. Dude is worth damn near a quarter of a billion dollars, Bob Arum. Make the fight happen by any means necessary, make supposed "easy work" of the guy who you claim is not on your level, put the exclamation point on your hall of fame career, and take the unquestioned bigger cut.

But you still won't do it? Purely out of spite? My guess is Floyd is pretty confident in his ability to beat MP, BUT realizes that Manny is still unquestionably dangerous, and would rather go without facing him since it's safer for him to just sit back and claim that he would have won the fight and Manny isn't on his level. That's safer and doesn't risk his zero. Not only risking the zero, but possibly losing to THE guy that will forever go down as his arch-nemesis (even though they'll never have fought, lol). He'd rather not even face him.

I mean come on. If he knew deep down that he'd 100% whoop that ass, he'd make the fight and the most lucrative payday of his career. Bob Arum be damned. Who the f**k passes up a guaranteed easy breezy biggest payday of their career? It's because he knows it ain't gonna be that easy, that's why.

Manny did when he didn't take that 40 million guarantee.

[Evol]

lmao @ the flomos trying to justify this. for the pass years all we hear from them is why wont manny take the test if he's clean. all manny gotta do is take the test and the fight will get sign. why wont manny take the test if he's the best? now its why cant manny be his own boss? why does manny need arum for? why wont manny leave arum? LMAO!!!!

[Vasyl’s dad]

Why does Pac need Arum introducing him at press tour stops in order to fight Floyd? Because after Arum recieves his step aside fee, that's pretty much the only thing he or Pac would lose.

Likewise, when Arum offered GBP a step aside fee to promote Donaire-Mares without them. Was it an excuse for Donaire to duck Mares? I can never seem to get a straight answer to these questions.

Hold up. You're asking why Pac needs Arum, but um, why does Floyd need GBP?

Doesn't really matter. If you really want to fight a guy, it doesn't matter who his promoter is. You make the deal, and fight the guy. Show me every time in history where one fighter refused to fight another guy because of his promoter.

[Luilun]

This is to fool the low IQ that I'm afraid of Manny Pacquiao. The fight don't happen because of Arum but those who have at least IQ's more than 85 know the real reason. I don't want to risk my zero I need slow footed fighters so I can pop them and move

[hitking]

Watch floyd fight tomato cans until he retires... lame way to end a career.

Is it possible to fight someone worse than Brandon Rios?

[Vasyl’s dad]

Your ignorance is contagious. If more people had decided who to support based on who ran their career, who managed a particular record label the world would be a better place....No we do not know about every injustice perpetrated in the name of profit, but when we see fighters like Witherspoon and Pacman destroyed by selfish promoters like King and Arum we most damn well should decide to boycott who manages the fighters career! And the proof is in the pudding: as bad as King was he at least had the fighters fighting each other on the cards he put together...Arum? selling boxing fans crap, trying to protect fighters like cash cows.

Its high time boxing fans realized that Floyd's act of discrimination (in the literal sense of the word, not pejaritive!) is ultimately in their best interests. When fighters see that scumbags managing them is not acceptable they will get rid of Arum...as they did (for all practical purposes) to King.

I don't care who promotes who. I don't care who makes the most money. I don't even care if the promoters are robbing their fighters blind. That is not why I'm a boxing fan. I'm a boxing fan because I like to see the best fighters take on the best fighters. Simple as that. Has been that way for over 30 years. I have never once tuned in to see any fighters paycheck, their house, their promoter, or who shows their fights on tv.

I watch boxing because its quite simply the best sport on earth. Two men, four fists, nobody to blame if you lose, all the glory to gain if you win.

These fighters mean nothing in the grand scheme of my life because I pay for what I want to see. They have their families, I have mine. And no matter how many fights I've paid to watch any fighter, not a single one of them will be at my door helping my family when I need it, nor will they be at my bedside when I die.

Floyd, is for Floyd. So all your gibberish about him leading the charge for going against "acts of discrimination" is absolute nonsense. This is the same guy who said hes about cleaning up the sport, but has guys in his own gym failing drug tests left and right.

Get off the did****.

[ddangerous]

Not a good enough reason not to make the biggest fight in boxing for the fans and general public.

I blame both sides and greed.