Comments Thread For: Arum, CBS CEO Set Meeting on Mayweather-Pacquiao

[-Kev-]

When news comes out about Arum sitting down with Mayweather and Haymon, then we're talking. Arum talking to CBS means absolutely nothing.

[chepe009]

At this point, I'll only believe it once contracts are signed and media tour is scheduled. I'm tired of getting my hopes up for nothing.

[wengz2002]

I wouldn't be surprise if Mayweather come up with another EXCUSE!

I'm 99% sure that Floyd is SCARED of PacMan!
Mayweather is afraid about his health fighting Pacquiao!

He make Ali as an example. If Ali could take back his fight that damages his health he would! Basically what Mayweather said, was it's ok to avoid some fight especially the ones that can damage your health!

1%: I HOPE FLOYD GROW HIS BALL!

[Fetta]

Like i been saying, i believe the offer is real.

They can try to get more but cannot walk away cause the offer is a good one for pac.

[megadeth]

Bleacher report lol

Michael Marley, the day after Arum's infamous "teleconference," came right out and said it. This was days before Leonard Ellerbe spoke.

Again, Marley is a Top Rank guy, and a noted Pacquiao backer. He reported that Arum's claims of "negotiations" and "agreements" were phony, days before any Mayweather person made any comment.

The man in the middle of the storm, Greenburg, remained silent even when pressed repeatedly to offer his version of events.

On Monday night, Greenburg finally did.

He took the Arum/Pacquiao side.

"Fights like Mayweather vs. Pacquiao are significant because of these fighters' ability to connect with sports fans around the world. It's unfortunate that it won't happen in 2010," Greenburg said in a statement. "I had been negotiating with a representative from each side since May 2nd, carefully trying to put the fight together. Hopefully, someday this fight will happen. Sports fans deserve it."http://m.espn.go.com/extra/boxing/story?storyId=5412488

Guess if he wasn't lying or exaggerating he should've taken the lie detector like Schaefer offered to, huh?

[leericists]

but where do you draw the line to stop aceepting someone's demands? maybe something like change your promoter that you are happy and comfortable with just becuse i diss like him!?

I think some fans are so in love with Floyd that they cannot see that asking someone to change their promoter is as silly as asking them to change their trainer (Roach) ... change your promoter is unheard of ever! we have seen Floyd fight Delahoya fighters while he hates him, but Floyd did not mind that knowing he is surely going to win the battle/those fights.

honestly after Manny accepted the extra drug test (just coz Floyd things Manny has done amazing) and accepted the less money split, and ofcourse the venue, date, ring size, gloves ..... i would question anyone's b*lls if they ask Manny to agree and drop his 15 years promoter just to get the fight ... glad manny refused otherwise i would think of him as a Floyd's B**ch .... what's next? change your wife or religion to get a fight with me? lol

honestly manny made the right choice for himself all im saying is that by making that choice he closed the door on any possibility of a floyd fight. we just have to accept it. i did already as you saw in my initial post. look the only way i can ever see this fight happening is lets say five years from now floyd find himself a little tight money wise and he absolutely need to make some cash then he might br force to do it but as of now with the hundreds of mils he has he wont.
btw about de la hoya you have to understand its nothing similar to arum.
de la hoya hate for floyd is almost like a compliment to him almost like flattery it makes floyd feel good about himself while arum makes floyd feel like he got taken advantage of and with someone with the ego of floyd it is impossible to take. like i said the only floyd fight pacman with arum involve is if he is dead broke so i dont see it happening and if it does not anytime soon.
btw i want the fight im just being realistic and taking the situation as it is

[bigjavi973]

tell em my man people dont understand that just with the canelo fight showtime might have got all their investement back or a huge chunk of it

thats bull

add up the numbers first

floyd-guerrero :875k buys floyd gets 32 mil
floyd-canelo: 2.2 mil buys floyd gets 41.5 mil
floyd-maidana1: 850k buys floyd gets 32 mil
floyd-maidana2: ??? buys floyd gets 32 mil

Add up all the buys (that are available, since the maidana 2 official numbers aren't out) you get = 3,925,000 buys multiply that by the cost of the ppv ($75) you get a total of $294,375,000

Half of that money is going directly to floyd on guarranteed amounts. So how is it that showtime IS NOT losing money? They are not bringing any profits in, seems like they are just about breaking even.

[Bronx2245]

Michael Marley, the day after Arum's infamous "teleconference," came right out and said it. This was days before Leonard Ellerbe spoke.

Again, Marley is a Top Rank guy, and a noted Pacquiao backer. He reported that Arum's claims of "negotiations" and "agreements" were phony, days before any Mayweather person made any comment.





Guess if he wasn't lying or exaggerating he should've taken the lie detector like Schaefer offered to, huh?

Notice how they always try to dismiss a quote because they don't like the source, i.e. Bleacher Report, ESPN, FightHype, etc. It's not like you quoted someone from YouTube or the Barber Shop.

[bigjavi973]

You can't disappear from negotiations for two years and then just expect the exact same terms, that would exhibit zero business acumen on both sides. It would be like Roy Jones Jr. and Hopkins expecting the money they were being offered in the early 2000s for Hopkins-Jones III in 2015. We get it you guys really like Manny and think he deserves whatever he wants. However, things like purse splits aren't determined by who has the most people garbaging up boxing forums. They're based on drawing power and revenue generated.

Really? Who retired? Who was in jail and not fighting? Who kept on fighting, never retired?

[bigjavi973]

0 day cutoff was the original request-adjusted by Floyd because Manny didn't want it. Manny accepted 14 day cutoff more then 5 months later, only after Floyd took it off the table after the Mosley fight.

Lets just hope he and bob agree to a deal now.

Both sides agreed to enter into mediation on January 7, 2010, in hopes of coming to an agreement on the blood testing issue. Retired federal judge Daniel Weinstein, who successfully resolved a prior dispute between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions, would again act as mediator. Two days later, after hours of negotiating during mediation, Arum declared that the fight was officially off after Mayweather refused to agree to a 24-day cut-off date. Mayweather revealed that he offered a 14-day cut-off date to Team Pacquiao, but it was rejected.

Leonard Ellerbe declared on January 18, 2010, that random blood and urine testing will be implemented in all of Mayweather's future fights, regardless of the opponent. On February 13, 2010, in an exclusive interview with David Mayo of The Grand Rapids Press, Mayweather said, "I gave him [Pacquiao] a chance, up to 14 days out. But my new terms are all the way up to the fight. They can come get us whenever, all the way up to the fight, random drug test. That's what it is."

That does not sound like 5 months later. Nice try dunn