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Pure nonsense.
There were at least 2 other official negotiations. Everyone knows about $40millionwithnoPPV-gate, but it seems everyone forgets when Floyd and co. tried to hoodwink everyone (again) and were outed by the head of HBO.
If you recall, after Pac-Clottey and May-Mosely there were rumblings of secret negotiations going on behind the scenes. Both sides kept talking about gag orders until Floyd ducked again and went on 'vacation'. Arum told everyone they had been negotiating through Ross Greenburg, then president of HBO, Floyd's side went into damage control mode and said no such talks were happening... despite their ongoing gag order.
After a few days of back and forths between Arum and Ellerbe in the media (pretty much the same scenario here), Greenburg broke his silence and made it clear what was going on:
HBO Exec: Mayweather-Pacquiao Talks True
As pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao moves on to a probable Nov. 13 fight against Antonio Margarito -- now that Floyd Mayweather has said he is not interested in making boxing's biggest fight, at least this year -- there is still some unfinished business from the messiness of last week's cliffhanger: Were the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps negotiating the fight or not?
Top Rank's Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, insists they were, using HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg as an intermediary.
The Mayweather camp said that is not true and that there were never any negotiations.
The man in the middle of the storm, Greenburg, remained silent even when pressed repeatedly to offer his version of events.
On Monday night, Greenburg finally did.
He took the Arum/Pacquiao side.
"Fights like Mayweather vs. Pacquiao are significant because of these fighters' ability to connect with sports fans around the world. It's unfortunate that it won't happen in 2010," Greenburg said in a statement. "I had been negotiating with a representative from each side since May 2nd, carefully trying to put the fight together. Hopefully, someday this fight will happen. Sports fans deserve it."
The date Greenburg mentioned was the day after Mayweather's resounding decision win against Shane Mosley.
Arum had said over and over during the past two weeks, beginning on a 3 a.m. ET July 17 conference call to announce that the exclusive window to negotiate with Mayweather had closed, that he was negotiating the fight with Al Haymon, Mayweather's adviser, with Greenburg as the go-between.
Arum said he would discuss deal points with Greenburg, who would then take them to Haymon and vice versa.
Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's other adviser and the public voice because Haymon refuses to speak to the press, said a few days after Arum outlined how the talks went that there had never been any negotiations.
He released a statement a few days after Arum's teleconference that said, "Here are the facts. Al Haymon, (Golden Boy Promotions CEO) Richard Schaefer and myself speak to each other on a regular basis, and the truth is no negotiations have ever taken place, nor was there ever a deal agreed upon by Team Mayweather or Floyd Mayweather to fight Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 13. Either Ross Greenburg or Bob Arum is not telling the truth, but history tells us who is lying."
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=5412488
Greenburg later made it clear it was Floyd and Floyd alone who inexplicably ducked the fight en route to his woman-beatig 'vacation':
Greenburg insists the fight was close to being made twice for this year. ***8220;Both times, the fight was very close to being made,***8221; Greenburg told Satterfield. ***8220;And, the second time around, you know, all that I can say is that you would have to ask Floyd Mayweather why the fight wasn***8217;t made. To this day, I really don***8217;t know why Floyd decided that he didn***8217;t want the fight any more in the fall.***8221;
***8220;To this day, I don***8217;t know why he wanted to take some more time off,***8221; said Greenburg. ***8220;Only Floyd has that answer. I certainly don***8217;t have that answer. But, you know, it was very close. It was so, so, close. I think that it was so close that I don***8217;t think that it***8217;s going to take much to make the fight the third time around.***8221;
http://www.*************.com/headlin...vs-mayweather/
This is just History repeating itself. We just need a neutral party to come forward and give details about what is happening behind the scenes. Espinoza is a Haymon stooge through and through much like Schaefer and Ellerbe were before him. I would love to hear Moonves thoughts.
There were at least 2 other official negotiations. Everyone knows about $40millionwithnoPPV-gate, but it seems everyone forgets when Floyd and co. tried to hoodwink everyone (again) and were outed by the head of HBO.
If you recall, after Pac-Clottey and May-Mosely there were rumblings of secret negotiations going on behind the scenes. Both sides kept talking about gag orders until Floyd ducked again and went on 'vacation'. Arum told everyone they had been negotiating through Ross Greenburg, then president of HBO, Floyd's side went into damage control mode and said no such talks were happening... despite their ongoing gag order.
After a few days of back and forths between Arum and Ellerbe in the media (pretty much the same scenario here), Greenburg broke his silence and made it clear what was going on:
HBO Exec: Mayweather-Pacquiao Talks True
As pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao moves on to a probable Nov. 13 fight against Antonio Margarito -- now that Floyd Mayweather has said he is not interested in making boxing's biggest fight, at least this year -- there is still some unfinished business from the messiness of last week's cliffhanger: Were the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps negotiating the fight or not?
Top Rank's Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, insists they were, using HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg as an intermediary.
The Mayweather camp said that is not true and that there were never any negotiations.
The man in the middle of the storm, Greenburg, remained silent even when pressed repeatedly to offer his version of events.
On Monday night, Greenburg finally did.
He took the Arum/Pacquiao side.
"Fights like Mayweather vs. Pacquiao are significant because of these fighters' ability to connect with sports fans around the world. It's unfortunate that it won't happen in 2010," Greenburg said in a statement. "I had been negotiating with a representative from each side since May 2nd, carefully trying to put the fight together. Hopefully, someday this fight will happen. Sports fans deserve it."
The date Greenburg mentioned was the day after Mayweather's resounding decision win against Shane Mosley.
Arum had said over and over during the past two weeks, beginning on a 3 a.m. ET July 17 conference call to announce that the exclusive window to negotiate with Mayweather had closed, that he was negotiating the fight with Al Haymon, Mayweather's adviser, with Greenburg as the go-between.
Arum said he would discuss deal points with Greenburg, who would then take them to Haymon and vice versa.
Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's other adviser and the public voice because Haymon refuses to speak to the press, said a few days after Arum outlined how the talks went that there had never been any negotiations.
He released a statement a few days after Arum's teleconference that said, "Here are the facts. Al Haymon, (Golden Boy Promotions CEO) Richard Schaefer and myself speak to each other on a regular basis, and the truth is no negotiations have ever taken place, nor was there ever a deal agreed upon by Team Mayweather or Floyd Mayweather to fight Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 13. Either Ross Greenburg or Bob Arum is not telling the truth, but history tells us who is lying."
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=5412488
Greenburg later made it clear it was Floyd and Floyd alone who inexplicably ducked the fight en route to his woman-beatig 'vacation':
Greenburg insists the fight was close to being made twice for this year. ***8220;Both times, the fight was very close to being made,***8221; Greenburg told Satterfield. ***8220;And, the second time around, you know, all that I can say is that you would have to ask Floyd Mayweather why the fight wasn***8217;t made. To this day, I really don***8217;t know why Floyd decided that he didn***8217;t want the fight any more in the fall.***8221;
***8220;To this day, I don***8217;t know why he wanted to take some more time off,***8221; said Greenburg. ***8220;Only Floyd has that answer. I certainly don***8217;t have that answer. But, you know, it was very close. It was so, so, close. I think that it was so close that I don***8217;t think that it***8217;s going to take much to make the fight the third time around.***8221;
http://www.*************.com/headlin...vs-mayweather/
This is just History repeating itself. We just need a neutral party to come forward and give details about what is happening behind the scenes. Espinoza is a Haymon stooge through and through much like Schaefer and Ellerbe were before him. I would love to hear Moonves thoughts.
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