Comments Thread For: Arum and De La Hoya on May 2nd: That's Canelo's Date

[Silky-Flow]

These dates were reserved for Oscar when he was fighhting and have always been for the Mexican superstar.

Floyd didn't have these dates until Oscar retired, and now we have a Mexican superstar and Canelo has every right to those dates. Canelo is gonna fight in these dates no matter what Floyd does and he should

But your "mexican superstar" got Schooled by Floyd on cinci demayo!!..how could you still support him after he failed the nation so badly on that special day?

[k1llu]

Canelo challenged him publicly, Pac style. Told everyone he was taking Cinco de Mayo weekend from Floyd and dared him to say something. Floyd probably thought it was a bluff and didn't say ****. Then when it looked like Canelo was dead serious and had agreed to terms, then all of a sudden Floyd is talking that Cinco de Mayweather nonsense.

If he wants to stick to the date and challenge Cotto-Canelo, he's going to have to do it with Thurman or Khan (who still has Garcia problems) or some other Maidana level fighter since Freddie Roach can't be in 2 places at once.





Pac-Floyd being on Cinco de Mayo weekend won't affect sales one way or another. Put that fight any weekend next year and it does a minimum 2.5 mil buys at $100 per buy.

Cotto-Canelo on the other hand would be affected very positively by being aired on that weekend as Canelo's fan base is primarily Mexican. The only other viable weekend would be the PR day parade, but that's nowhere near as important as May 5th.

You still haven't answered why Floyd-Manny can't be staged on another date.

Go on, take a stab at it...

if that's the case they should go head to head and see who wins. floyd already made canelo look like a bum in the ring. prince you're a fucking moron topical pac fan so blinded by hate cant even see the truth even if its right in front of your face.

[Kagami Taiga]

Why the hell shouldn't the biggest fight of the year be on the biggest boxing weekend of the year. Its hilarious, everyone was "I hope Canelo vs. Cotto goes through in may because it forces floyd to fight Pac to compete" now it's "why doesn't floyd move his date". U dudes need to get your damn stories straight. This is downright embarrassing. We all know Floyd isn't movin off that date and frankly why the hell should he? Pac vs. MAY should happen that weekend.

[ThePrince]

I noticed lol. Dude is making up so many theories out of the blue now.

No one has answered why Floyd-Pacquiao can't happen on another date besides 'Cinco de Mayweather'.

Whenever you're ready.

if that's the case they should go head to head and see who wins. floyd already made canelo look like a bum in the ring. prince you're a ****ing moron topical pac fan so blinded by hate cant even see the truth even if its right in front of your face.

Yeah, let them go head to head and have Freddie Roach drive from arena to arena in between rounds to coach both Manny and Cotto on the same night.

Take a bow.

[Supreme75]

I absolutely love this. What we are seeing is, the boxing world preparing to move on without this coward. Call it what you want, but I hope Cotto/Canelo hold firm on that date, and that Arum and Pac freeze Floyd's a$$ out.

People are sick of him trying to dictate every damn thing. They are daring him to find a credible opponent to compete with that MEGA fight. And like Prince posted, Cotto/Nelo are actually NEGOTIATING and not fu**ing around. So Arum is saying, you know what? FU. We're not fighting on that date. Now what you gonna do about it! I love it.

[IronDanHamza]

Canelo challenged him publicly, Pac style. Told everyone he was taking Cinco de Mayo weekend from Floyd and dared him to say something. Floyd probably thought it was a bluff and didn't say ****. Then when it looked like Canelo was dead serious and had agreed to terms, then all of a sudden Floyd is talking that Cinco de Mayweather nonsense.

If he wants to stick to the date and challenge Cotto-Canelo, he's going to have to do it with Thurman or Khan (who still has Garcia problems) or some other Maidana level fighter since Freddie Roach can't be in 2 places at once.





Pac-Floyd being on Cinco de Mayo weekend won't affect sales one way or another. Put that fight any weekend next year and it does a minimum 2.5 mil buys at $100 per buy.

Cotto-Canelo on the other hand would be affected very positively by being aired on that weekend as Canelo's fan base is primarily Mexican. The only other viable weekend would be the PR day parade, but that's nowhere near as important as May 5th.

You still haven't answered why Floyd-Manny can't be staged on another date.

Go on, take a stab at it...

No actually Floyd publically stated that he doesn't care what Canelo says that he is still fighting on that date so you're wrong there.

"Freddie Roach can't be in two places at once" Are you for real? Like that would be a reason to have Cotto on that date over Pacquaio. PacquIo is the priority not Cotto and that has absolutely nothing to do with Arum.

I've already said that it could be on another date. As can Canelo-Cotto.

It can be on another date but May 2nd would maximise the revenue so why would you want Canelo-Cotto on that date instead of a much bigger fight.

You're absolutely dreaming if you think that date won't effect the sales. History shows us that clearly it will.

Why is Arum even concerned with Canelo and what date he's on? That's the key question. It makes no sense.

Seems like an excuse and a ridiculous one at that.

You posted this with the idea that this will support your argument it actually does the opposite

It's very strange that Arum would say this about that date and it's not a good sign.

[HanzGruber]

No one has answered why Floyd-Pacquiao can't happen on another date besides 'Cinco de Mayweather'.

Whenever you're ready.




Yeah, let them go head to head and have Freddie Roach drive from arena to arena in between rounds to coach both Manny and Cotto on the same night.

Take a bow.

It can but why should it? Just give it up stop defending arums bs. Read shmurdas post above yours. You guys flip flop like there's no tomorrow. And need flash Floyd is the A side. Now all the sudden you want the fight to be moved ?

[IronDanHamza]

No one has answered why Floyd-Pacquiao can't happen on another date besides 'Cinco de Mayweather'.

Whenever you're ready.




Yeah, let them go head to head and have Freddie Roach drive from arena to arena in between rounds to coach both Manny and Cotto on the same night.

Take a bow.

You haven't answered why Canelo-Cotto can't be on another date.

You also haven't answered why Arum is even concerned about what date Canelo fights on.

[k1llu]

No one has answered why Floyd-Pacquiao can't happen on another date besides 'Cinco de Mayweather'.

Whenever you're ready.

because its the biggest boxing date of the year! its should be set for the biggest fight ever! you're a fucking moron you're grasping on straws it fucking embarrassing

[IronDanHamza]

Because this fight took off and was "decided" before Mayweather croaked with his decision to fight on May 2. Clearly Mayweather did this inorder to confront TR and Arum and another roadblock.

You just can't be serious.

Floyd stated well before Canelo that his next date was May.

Everyone knows that's Floyd's date.

They knew this full well before going forward.