Comments Thread For: Pacquiao Turns His Back on Mayweather Fight, For Now

[GRUSTLER]

You say Arum is robbing him, but Floyd offering Pac 40 mil is robbing him too

Pac was at the peak of his powers back then and his popularity was at an all time high. Floyd making 100 mil + while Pac only gets 40 mil flat would have been daylight robbery.

It doesn't matter that Pac's career has taken a nosedive since, Pac just wanted his fair share back then.

When Floyd offered Manny 40 Mil Manny was not as big as he was when Floyd agreed to 50% in 09. Floyd was already the highest paid athlete. Manny was the one who said he would takes less so why is Mayweather the villain for offering him less?

[Ray*]

oh yeah, calling manny in the philippines lowballing him because... "What If I lose?" , that doesnt sound like Floyd is so confident and wanting the fight, It sounded more like he was trying to test the "water" if manny is amenable for a paycheck like whats been circulating now that canelo was paid 5M extra to go easy on floyd. they cant convince pacquiao to take a paycheck to go easy as long as arum is around. they wanted Pacquiao alone thinking they can easily sway him to accept a paycheck to go easy on floyd, prolly with 10Mil or 15million extra. Its all business you know. I give that to floyd just taking care of business. but i think when haymon got hold of the info he must have told floyd, "damit floyd, thats ****** dont talk to that pacman about paychecks hes too honest for your own good hell tell on you, dont even try offering him again unless hes free from that lawyer of a promoter hes got."

You don't call someone up in the Philippines if you don't want the fight period!

[JJRod]

Once again, he has a negotiating team who handle that business. If you think Pacquiao was personally turning down testing, well then you probably believe 9/11 was an inside job and all the other conspiracy theories.

Let's be real here, Floyd isn't fighting Pacquiao even if he leaves Bob Arum. He doesn't want to fight him, he never did and he likely never will. It's clear from his comments that "Money" would prefer if Pacquiao retired so he didn't have to hear about him and just pretend he doesn't exist.

This is a ridiculous comparison.
And it was Pacquiao's whole team who turned down the testing on the ridiculous basis that it made him weak.
Roach said that Pacquiao would be weak for 3 days and that was their whole reasoning for the cut off dates. Something that even to this day sounds completely ridiculous.

[Ray*]

At the end of the day we shall see how easy this fight gets made when Pac becomes free. He wouldn't have to pay Arum and he (Mayweather) wouldn't have to deal with Arum. Personally I hope this fight doesn't happen, because once the fight gets signed then it's "Mayweather waited for Pac to get old or war torn" etc

[jwheels9876]

At the end of the day we shall see how easy this fight gets made when Pac becomes free. He wouldn't have to pay Arum and he (Mayweather) wouldn't have to deal with Arum. Personally I hope this fight doesn't happen, because once the fight gets signed then it's "Mayweather waited for Pac to get old or war torn" etc

What if PAC beats him though? What will the Floyd fans say then?

[GRUSTLER]

Offering that amount of money with NO PPV revenues IS a business obstacle. I don't know why that looks like a fair offer for some of you.

Manny has yet to even make 40Mil since he has been fighting with PPV tallied up. Basically Floyd gives Manny 50% of everything while Floyd is the highest earner of the two? Manny don't make 40 Mil by himself, Floyd does. Nothing wrong with Pacquiao getting some PPV but same split? No, it doesn't work that way.

[The Big Dunn]

At the end of the day we shall see how easy this fight gets made when Pac becomes free. He wouldn't have to pay Arum and he (Mayweather) wouldn't have to deal with Arum. Personally I hope this fight doesn't happen, because once the fight gets signed then it's "Mayweather waited for Pac to get old or war torn" etc

The Pac fans are saying the same things they and the cotto fans say about him- he won't fight him even if he leaves top rank.

Soon as he left top rank the Floyd cotto fight got made and cotto got hi.s highest payday ever.

The Pac fans always like to go back and fact check Floyd's statements yet they conveniently forget to mention this.

[Ray*]

What if PAC beats him though? What will the Floyd fans say then?

So what if he beats him? His critics pay more attention to his "0" than anything else, if he beats him he beats him period! As soon as this fight gets signed the same people calling for the fight would say he only signed to fight Pacquiao because he is shot or beaten from pillar to post.. We have seen this since 2005/2006 on here, it would be he cherrypick Pac when he could have fought Lara, they said the samething when he fought Hatton, Mosley, JMM, Ortiz, not so much Guerrero,Cotto, Canelo etc recycled... This is why I hope and pray that the Pac fight never happens.

[Ray*]

The Pac fans are saying the same things they and the cotto fans say about him- he won't fight him even if he leaves top rank.

Soon as he left top rank the Floyd cotto fight got made and cotto got hi.s highest payday ever.

The Pac fans always like to go back and fact check Floyd's statements yet they conveniently forget to mention this.

Well now it was he only fought Cotto "because Cotto was already beaten from pillar to post by Rito and Pac" not one of them can fathom the effect that Arum was not involve and the Cotto fight got made, or the fact since leaving Top rank him and Arum haven't work together.

[maguirre]

Money Mayweather had one goal in mind about the Pac fight. That is to not let it happen. He succeeded. This is a guy who reluctantly left the sport. Man, he was crying. He left because he sensed that Arum was starting to put dangerous fights in front of him. He got scared. He's back and he's acting like a effing queen as if ducks deserve all the perks in the world. I mean it's disgusting. How can a guy who took less risks by fighting seldom be deserving of all these privileges? It's an insult to one's intelligence.