Comments Thread For: SHO Exec: Mayweather-Pacquiao Deal Has a Ways To Go

[wlliam]

Bob Arum "We agreed to all Floyds terms, just waiting for him to sign...Pacs agreed and soon as he gets here he'll sign on the dotted line"

In other words " Nobody signed ****"

[Pago007]

Thought pac agreed too all points so how can u agree when the networks arent even in agreement yet

[MrRolltide91]

............

[Aristocrat]

[odogg8121]

Floyd is trying to find a way out of this. He will find an out.

I take it you have not been keeping up, evbody even Roach admitted that team Pac is the reason the first talks fell off, yet you still blame Floyd? interesting...

[MrRolltide91]

The deal was that whichever network's fighter won, that network would get the delay rights. Lewis won and HBO showed the replay, and the fight was forever branded an HBO fight. The Showtime replay that was produced never aired.*

So the deal can be done. It's just not easy.*


Right off the bat, I'm told that HBO is reluctant to handle the delay the same way as in the 2002 deal, preferring instead to have any delay air simultaneously on both networks. Perhaps HBO was OK with the 2002 arrangement because Lewis was such a huge favorite over Tyson and it was worth the risk. In a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, Mayweather will be the favorite.*

http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/post/_/id/11667/showtime-hbo-talk-mayweather-pacquiao

[AllBoxingAD]

clown issues a press release about others making statements to the press? laughable!!

pay attention folks- this is the first seed planted for the duck

floyd cant fight because arum talks to the media. listen to this ****!!!

signthe ****ing fight.!!!!!!!!!

You want Floyd to sign a contract that doesnt exist?

Im curious, has Manny signed that imaginary contract?

[mathed]

floyd stays ducking......complete joke.....please retire.

[ReIoaded]

Stop trying to negotiate through the press arum

Negotiate through the press? Silly boy, how could that be possible when every body knows that it was basically Mayweather making demands and Pacquiao agreeing to all them?

[RSBonos]

Don't screw this up Espinoza!

But i'm not worried since Les is calling the shots from that end. I don't want either Paulie or Lampley calling the fight, they are both way too biased and emotionally involved. Mauro is meh but he'll have to do. No Kellerman either if possible, or just get him to do interviews.