Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Pacquiao: The WBC Issues a Statement

[PunchyPotorff]

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Originally Posted by creekrat77 View Post
The only admission that needs to be made is Floyd's ducking of Pacquiao through the years with the most pitiful of excuses. I'm sorry your hero is being thrown to the wolves by the media because he won't fight a fight that should have happened and been done with 5 years ago..........

I will take that as ducking the questions! Thanks Coward!

You're one delusional fek.

[Vasyl’s dad]

Since when does the WBC have any authority or negotiating teeth. These money-grubbing leeches are just trying to remain relevant and in the thick of things.

Floyd is a wbc champ, or no?

[KingTito]

Well we all know that there are many parties interested in this fight. I have always been and will continue to be very skeptical. We shall see.

[Ruthless One]

Well we all know that there are many parties interested in this fight. I have always been and will continue to be very skeptical. We shall see.

We can only hope that they get this fight done sometime next year. So far, things are looking positive.

[PunchyPotorff]

.... I will be patient, wait and see what happens, rather than talk trash and look like a fool if the fight gets made.

Except you aren't 'just being patient'. You're JUST going on here over and over dissing any and everything Pac, and making excuses for Floydie. You're just full of sheet just like your idol. And don't even have the stones to admit it.

[theocdog]

Belts suddenly collect dust again...

[megadeth]

I was of the viewpoint that he should've taken the test to cast away all doubt about him taking PEDs or not, but he walked away and it led to a legal battle with Floyd instead. Big mistake. IMO, Pac was more afraid of the testing than he was of Mayweather, which is su****ious.

Pac isn't afraid of Floyd or visa versa. I would never insuate that about either. What I will say is that Arum at the very least didn't want the fight to happen at this time and convinced Pac to tow the line.

Didn't Pac give out the idea of 60/40 (or was it 55/45) and the PPV goes to the winner? Been a while. But regardless, Floyd gave out a terrible offer. No one can deny that.

From what I understand he said 50/50(I think this was in regards to the PPV) and gave the phone to Koncz or hung up. Ariza said years ago Floyd told him that he is a business man and of course he is going to go low. That is what negotiating is about. But forget that for a min. How could Floyd be to blame when at the very least he made an effort to negotiate. It was COMPLETELY obvious that Arum wasn not interested in doing so. Don't think so? You wonder why Floyd called Manny and not Arum? This is why!


http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...yweather-fight

Blame Arum for no Pac-Floyd*fight
Updated: January 7, 2012, 3:41 AM ET
By Dan Rafael | ESPN.com

It was just this week that Arum said he would go to the Philippines to meet with Pacquiao and present him with the names of four possible opponents for May or June: Miguel Cotto, Marquez, Lamont Peterson and Timothy Bradley Jr.

Arum figured Mayweather would be in jail and off the table. Now that Mayweather is available and seemingly would like to make the match, Arum suddenly isn't interested.

He used the lame excuse of the cut Pacquiao suffered against Marquez, saying he might not be ready for May. (I've never heard of a cut taking more than six months to heal.) However, earlier this week, when Arum thought Mayweather would be on ice behind bars, he said there was a good possibility Pacquiao would fight in May.

Moments after Mayweather was granted the continuance, Arum changed his tune.

"We're fighting in June, one of the four guys," Arum told me over the phone.

I asked him, now that Mayweather was available, would he at least be part of the conversation when Arum meets with Pacquiao next week?

A perturbed Arum's response was, "Absolutely not. Nope."

Come again? You won't even talk about it with Pacquiao, I asked very politely.

"My mission is to go over to the Philippines and talk about these four guys," Arum said. "If Manny feels he wants to go in May, he will tell me. I want to make sure Manny's cuts are healed. We won't fall under this kind of pressure. June is much more likely for Manny's fight, not May."

So May was a real possibility yesterday, but now there's no way?

"What if they fought and Manny started bleeding on the first punch?" a clearly flustered Arum said. "I don't know if Manny is available to fight in May. I have no idea. I haven't talked to him; I haven't seen him. Seems to me, June is more likely based on what his plastic surgeon said."

Arum threw out another "reason" (or excuse, as far as I'm concerned) not to try to make Pacquiao-Mayweather for May 5.

"I don't even know if Mayweather will be licensed [by the Nevada State Athletic Commission] before he serves his time," Arum said.

It would seem to me that if a judge would free Mayweather to make a megafight in Las Vegas, with the economic impact of the fight being a major reason for the decision, then the commission -- political appointees -- would understand what a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight would mean to the community.

In other words, with the amount of money it would generate for the desperate local economy, there is no way the commission wouldn't license Mayweather to fight Pacquiao or anyone else on May 5.

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This tells ANYONE with ANY sense that even if Pac had accepted the 40 mil or negotiated, the fight STILL wouldn't have happened, cuz Arum didn't want it. Proves that 40mil reason is a lame excuse. Now, how is that Floyd's fault? If Arum wanted the fight, he would've been the one negotiating like he says he is today, and it can't happen without Arums approval.

Both sides have been talking trash, so I wouldn't just say this to Pac fans. Pac fans calling Floyd cowardly while Floyd fans saying Pac isn't worthy still to face off with Floyd. My initial comment was due to certain fans stating that they'd rather have Floyd fight someone else, and we all know that it's high time that these two boxers should fight each other.

I have never called once said that Pac isn't worthy to fight Floyd. I want the Pac fight ore than anyone.

[megadeth]

Yeah we all no about the ..."and Pacquiao youre next"...." I never said that, dont put words in my mouth" , bullshlt.
You really need to wake up man. There is only a very small percent that think Floyd hasnt and still isnt ducking Manny! Cong****!

Yeah...he said that. Then what happened? Arum said he didn't want to make the fight. Floyd called Pac to make the fight. Who cares what a very small percent think. A very small part of **** Germany thought that Hitler was wrong, did that make him right?

[megadeth]

You're one delusional fek.

I'm delusional yet none of u will stand up for what your saying. I thought that is what MEN do.

[megadeth]

Except you aren't 'just being patient'. You're JUST going on here over and over dissing any and everything Pac, and making excuses for Floydie. You're just full of sheet just like your idol. And don't even have the stones to admit it.

You are full of it. I diss Floyd as well. I just don't stand by and watch people talk trash about one and ignore it when the other side has blame in it as well. Floyd is HARDLY my idol and NEVER WILL BE! This coming from a Pac cult member.

I will ask you too, see if u have the stones to answer.

If the fight get's made, will you have the balls to come back and admit you were wrong about Floyd being afraid of Pac?