Comments Thread For: De La Hoya To Make a Push For Mayweather-Pacquiao

[JoeKidd]

De LaHoya jumps on the bandwagon now. Meanwhile, Floyd's kicking back, scratching his balls and sucking it all up. The guy's got everyone chasing him like a fool. If the guy doesn't want to fight, give it a break! Move on!

[g-wane]

Mayweather will now spout some garbage about Pacquiao not deserving $80 million because he doesn't generate the same PPV numbers, and thus he won't make the fight.

Then Pacquiao will agree to the new numbers.

Floyd will then say, "but Pacquiao lost to Marquez," and then choose a much softer, less established opponent.

Then, when Pacquiao can hardly box anymore, Mayweather will finally agree to a fight with 30 oz gloves, a 26 foot ring, and throw 1 punch at a time for a boring 12 round decision victory.



Er...except they didn't fight DLH anywhere close to each other. Oh, and Mayweather didn't even leave a scratch on DLH.

Idiot.

No you're the idiot .. Floyd will more then likely take less and want to negotiate a percentage of the gate.. Floyd knows 100 mil is really just 50 mil after taxes, manger and promoter fees.. Floyd is going to want the gate and this has always been the sticking point between he and Arum.

[Rath]

if pacquiao leaves himself open like he did in the cherry picked,stiff,and there to get a paycheck algieri, against mayweather. He will get beaten badly. Simple and plain.

Romor has it that out of 49 Floyd's opponents, (Miss Jackson and Josie Harris not included) were hospitalized after Floyd beat them up so badly

[Spoon23]

That's a ridiculous amount of money to back off from Floyd. Soo much mullah Floyd. Time to dance.

[wlliam]

Her Lets hope Oscar doesnt try to show Pac the "blue print"" & ruin any chance Pac has at winning

Pac with Roach stands a good chance to be successful against Floyd, but then again Floyd has great skills-my only knock on either is there level of comp..WEAK

[megadeth]

AFAIK most if not all did not have one-sided rematch clauses(would be news to me), many of the recent fights people didn't even want to see to begin with so that is understandable but this is PAC vs MAY we are talking about..

Someone is already "moving the goalpost". Before, there was no way that Floyd would ever get in the ring with Pac. Now that it looks like he might, then it becomes "he wants a one sided rematch clause". Which is it? Not to mention, he didn't even say that. He is showing that what Roach was saying was nonsense and that what is a real issue is the prospect of having 2 fights.

[creekrat77]

De LaHoya jumps on the bandwagon now. Meanwhile, Floyd's kicking back, scratching his balls and sucking it all up. The guy's got everyone chasing him like a fool. If the guy doesn't want to fight, give it a break! Move on!

He doesn't want to fight because he is a g0d d@mn coward and fears sharing a ring with the most destructive southpow he will ever face and know

[Scipio2009]

I agree that Mayweather will not be dictated too, but the reality is that the people surrounding him are starting to change they're collective stance. The names are getting closer and closer to Mayweather. I think based on money made, ppv sales and recent opponents, Mayweather is the A+ side while Pac is the B side so he certainly deserves to call the shots. However lets not forget Espinoza already confirmed that he made an offer to Arum 3 months ago, do you think he did that with out Mayweathers permission? Mayweather is on board for this fight, despite what all these Pac fans say, and the purse looks to be growing.

Until Espinoza or the operations guy at the MGM Grand makes a move against Mayweather, nothing else matters. blunt, but reality.

Even then, it's not like Mayweather hasn't tried to make the fight prior; everyone accepts that the negotiations were real in 2009 and 2010, and Manny Pacquiao himself has publicly acknowledged that the $40m offer was real in 2012.

Espinoza likely made the move with Mayweather's blessing, so there's been movement on Mayweather's part; $40m plus 35% of the upside is a fair offer to make.

why no one acknowledges Espinoza's offer, yet are more than happy to run with Arum's ruminations ($180m to both fighters up from, China generating $300m in fight revenue, AT&T Stadium bringing in a far bigger gate than Vegas, etc) is beyond me.

The President of CBS doesn't handle the operations for Showtime; that's what they hired Espinoza for.

[bigfo0t]

Someone is already "moving the goalpost". Before, there was no way that Floyd would ever get in the ring with Pac. Now that it looks like he might, then it becomes "he wants a one sided rematch clause". Which is it? Not to mention, he didn't even say that. He is showing that what Roach was saying was nonsense and that what is a real issue is the prospect of having 2 fights.

No one is "moving the goalpost" but Floyd. He's been doing it for a damn long time now. I'm just calling him out on his usual, ridiculously cowardly demands. You know it, I know it, the whole world knows Floyd makes b*tch a§§ demands & excuses. Manny isn't the one demanding this and that for the fight to happen.

Look, this rumor may not even be true but we all know it isn't beyond Floyd to make these kinds of demands, next up- choice of gloves.

[yoshik]

Floyd...

...is such a chicken****. His arrogance and narcissism mask the fact that his only guarantee is him getting dominated and picked apart by the faster, stronger Pac Man who's conditioning is twice that of Floyd***. Floyd- a Punk*****.