Comments Thread For: Bob Arum: There is One Guy To Blame - Floyd Mayweather!

[MIGGATYMAG]

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum is firing back at a recent interview conducted by WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., who claimed the veteran promoter was the biggest obstacle in making a mega-fight with WBO champion Manny Pacquiao. The fight is being negotiated for May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Arum says his company, and Pacquiao, have agreed to every term requested by Mayweather - and he adds that CBS president Leslie Moonves and HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler are also on board.
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Floyd loves to blame Arum for stopping the fight. Floyd fans say Arum doesn't want Pac to fight Floyd because Pac is Arum's cash cow. Pac has 2 losses with Arum and nothing has changed. Floyd is Haymon's cash cow and he doesn't want Floyd to fight Pac because if Floyd losses there goes Haymon's cash cow.

[The Ninth Layer]

What are you talking about. Manny was supposed to fight Ruslan last year but Algieri won the fight so Manny fought Algieri. If Manny would have fought Ruslan instead, Manny would have been heavily criticized and saying he ducked a young undefeated lion that moves and boxes well ...... and instead fought the loser.

I don't understand how Pacquiao takes on two undefeated fighters in one year (one of them a top 5 p4p guy no less) and still gets criticized for taking soft touches.

[richardt]

You pieces of **** on boxing scene aren't gonna post the tweets from Stephen Espinoza from ShowTime, stating "there has been no contract drawn up, and he doesn't know what arum and koncs are talking about"

That's on Stephen Espinosa s twitter. Boxing scene is bias. Fighthype is better then you racist.

First of all, Boxingscene has posted articles from Espinoza claiming that. Strike one. And you calling Boxingscene racist is a sure way to get you banned, not that it matters because you only have 90 posts. Strike two. And if you are going to start calling Boxingscene "racist", did you forget to include Mayweather as one? Strike three.

[FloydvsPac]

If he speaks, would you believe him? Or would you say something like "OMG another excuse." He can literally sign the contract on camera, and people will say that's a fake contract or some ****.

I mean, I'm not lying over here right? Even you'd have to admit that's what people are going to say. I'm not being weird here...am I? I think that's kind of a normal response here, right?

I think Floyd should just come out and be clear and on the record. Then we'll see what happens.

When Arum & Pac publicly said they agreed to everything, Floyd fans called them liars. Then right away the SHO-HBO negotiations started, which meant they weren't lying. If Floyd is keeping silent that could mean that he can't refute their claims. At this point, if he doesn't want the fight, all he has to do is change his terms or just change his mind.

My prediction is that he'll change the terms, which will then cause the SHO-HBO negotiations to collapse. So SHO will have to protect their #1 fighter's image and just publicly say the negotiations broke down. Fight eventually happens 2016 under the same terms before Floyd backed out.

[Spoon23]

Here we go again.....When Arum started running his mouth to the public I had a bad feeling.....smh

It means they have exerted all avenues and still that other fighter is still on ***** Street.

The fact arum is out. It means they can't get Floyd out of the mouse hole. It also means the fight is not looking good as we all know by now everyone is on board even al haymon. They have done all that they could so coming out and exposing the truth is the last recourse.

It just shows Floyd is really not up to the challenge.

[boxmaniac123]

Floyd has already stated he will be half way around the world in Australia - coincidentally at the deadline set by Paq. He will claim he was not available to physically sign the contract lol.

[The Ninth Layer]

First of all, Boxingscene has posted articles from Espinoza claiming that. Strike one. And you calling Boxingscene racist is a sure way to get you banned, not that it matters because you only have 90 posts. Strike two. And if you are going to start calling Boxingscene "racist", did you forget to include Mayweather as one? Strike three.

I don't really think that highly of Espinoza as a source. He's basically a Haymon guy and he'll take the Mayweather party line as to whatever they tell him to say. He also tried to claim that Garcia-Peterson going to NBC (and not CBS) was all part of some master plan. The guy is a bit of a joke.

[Spoon23]

Floyd loves to blame Arum for stopping the fight. Floyd fans say Arum doesn't want Pac to fight Floyd because Pac is Arum's cash cow. Pac has 2 losses with Arum and nothing has changed. Floyd is Haymon's cash cow and he doesn't want Floyd to fight Pac because if Floyd losses there goes Haymon's cash cow.

Good point.

arum even allowed Bradley to win the first fight when it was obvious who won the first fight.

Arum doesn't protect like how al haymon protects Floyd.

[fightnight1]

Floyd should just go fight on NBC.

Floyd should just fight on NBC.
Where Al Haymond can protect him just like the rest of
Haymond fighters.

[The_Sandman]

I'm pretty sure that in his years of promoting fights, Bob Arum knows all about how simple or complicated negotiations can get.

Oh I know Bob knows how complicated negotiations can get. So when he pretends (which is the word I think you should focus on) it's so simple and says things like "We agreed to everything. We agreed to the date, the split, this that and the third", I'm over here like "that's weird". You know...like a normal person should. Because as simple and definite he makes it seems, I know he didn't go into details in any of them. He says everyone agreed except Mayweather, yet Showtime's Stephen Espinoza here is saying something else. Arum says they presented a contract to Mayweather, and Espinoza is saying "What contract?" So if Arum is saying everyone agreed except Mayweather, and we got Espinoza here who is obviously not Mayweather...saying something else, then no everyone didn't agree. That's a lie, right guys? (Can't believe I had to oversimplify it to this level.)