Comments Thread For: UAE Group Pulls Offer From Mayweather, Rips Him

[B Phontain]

Not concerned about the opinion of ********* and supporters of terror. (Check UAE's history of state sponsored terror before you get butt hurt and ignorantly reply!)

yea, yea i hear what your sayin but.......that chick in ya avi though...

[Biolink]

I vaguely recall someone going over there and not getting paid for the whole event.

[toyboy33]

How many big fights had Zaire hosted when they offered twice as much as anyone else to host Ali-Foreman (the richest fight in history up to that point in time?)

LOL at how dudes are saying "oh this makes sense, they're shady Arabs" ... Floyd can't be trusting them to host a fight of this magnitude, no matter how much they promise.

Some of the world's largest corporations do hundreds of billions of dollars of business with investors / companies the UAE.

Even when you are afraid that after you deliver goods or services to some foreign entity you haven't dealt with before that they might stiff you, you just get a letter of credit from them to secure future payment. It's not complicated. This is how international business is routinely conducted.

But Floyd is involved so logic goes out the window. "You can't trust Arabs doe, only one you can trust is Al Haymon cause we on T.M.T. till the day we d.i.e. even though we never see none of Floyd's money"

Welcome to Flomo world, where giving the finger to people who offer you 3.5 times what you made in your last fight is "smart business" and couldn't possibly have anything to do with not wanting to fight Manny Pacquiao LOL

Africa has been supplying world class boxers for a long time. Far as I know Dubai hasn't supplied anything but obnoxious Arab Princes and oil barons. So the answer is no world champion has fought there and the Arabs haven't paid any boxer of note. So you think lip service is going to secure the biggest fight that can be made in recent memory? Floyds team did the right thing by ignoring the phone calls. LOL

[toyboy33]

Lmao at Floyd getting a 'letter of credit' for $120 million dollars. He can fight at the MGM and get guaranteed payment.

[Dle]

Mayweather didn't want to be chasing flypaper around the world for the next 5yrs. Well, guess somebody believed 50cent. Even PAC in debt for back taxes wouldn't have bit for that one. Pac just didn't see Arum's left hand coming.

[oneon11]

Why do foreign countries think they can just throw some dollars at an American citizen who makes his/her own decisions and they are suppose to jump. Welcome to the world of American business buddy. You may be able to intimidate your people with that talk but here in America talk is cheap. If you really wanted Floyd to fight over there then you would have came to Vegas and made an appointment like everyone else. So take your funny money and package it back up in that quilted Northern roll of toilet paper we use here to wipe our zza.....

[Evol]

bu bu but its team pac that is holding up the fight.

[djt117]

Lmao at Floyd getting a 'letter of credit' for $120 million dollars. He can fight at the MGM and get guaranteed payment.

^ dude doesn't even know that a letter of credit *IS* guaranteed payment LOL

I'm not making fun of the fact you didn't know that (it's not common knowledge)

... but what is pretty hilarious is how you pretend (or perhaps don't even pretend) to know WTF you're talking about

Companies do business with foreign en****** every day of the week, and they do so for hundreds of BILLIONS -- the kind of money that makes Floyd's payday look like a pisshole in the snow.

But of course, none of that matters, because whatever Floyd does is smart / correct / great / not ducking ...

... don't forget your pom-poms!

Africa has been supplying world class boxers for a long time. Far as I know Dubai hasn't supplied anything but obnoxious Arab Princes and oil barons. So the answer is no world champion has fought there and the Arabs haven't paid any boxer of note. So you think lip service is going to secure the biggest fight that can be made in recent memory? Floyds team did the right thing by ignoring the phone calls. LOL

So the number of world class boxers a country has produced determines suitability of a venue for a fight? .... Not the amount of money they're offering or the quality of the facilities offered. OK, got it.

Did you know that before the Rumble in the Jungle, Zaire didn't even have a paved road to the stadium, satellite linkups to transmit the fight broadcast, or a 24-hour staffed Telex office for journalists to send their articles back home?

But they got their **** together & upgraded to host the fight ... and Ali & Foreman fought there because money (usually) talks.

But I suppose money doesn't talk when you're NOT ACTUALLY interested in fighting the opponent

[Shogun99]

Africa has been supplying world class boxers for a long time. Far as I know Dubai hasn't supplied anything but obnoxious Arab Princes and oil barons. So the answer is no world champion has fought there and the Arabs haven't paid any boxer of note. So you think lip service is going to secure the biggest fight that can be made in recent memory? Floyds team did the right thing by ignoring the phone calls. LOL

Africa is a continent, not a country Who are these world class boxers that Zaire has been supplying for a long time? Using your logic, Dubai is in Asia which has been supplying world class boxers for a long time

[tank17211]

An offer to Floyd Mayweather Jr. to fight Manny Pacquiao in Abu Dhabi this spring for a record-setting purse of $120 million is off the table.

M. Akbar Muhammad, a long-time boxing executive (who previously worked with Don King), said he put Mr. Mayweather on notice approximately one week ago that the offer, made late November by an investment group out of Abu Dhabi, would be rescinded the first week of January.

“We want to deal with serious individuals, individuals who have the ability make a decision,” said Muhammad. “Regretfully, that is not the case with Mr. Mayweather.
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How obvious is it that Floyd just does not want to fight Pacquiao. Im not sure how people don't see that.