Comments Thread For: Arum on Mayweather-Pacquiao Meeting, Says Deal Looms

[jjsmyth87]

"According to everybody this deal seems to be moving in the right direction"... This quote worries me. Who is "everybody" if not arum himself? He's making it seem as if he's not gonna have his hand in the negotiations of the richest fight in the history of the sport. And then he ends it with "you never know,I'm an optimist though"... Idk I don't like it, he's trying to play dumb and Bob Arum and dumb don't belong in the same sentence.

Are you serious or was that a joke? Bob arum is saying everyone from both sides are basically agreeing this is going to go down and your saying that BS?

[jjsmyth87]

There's fan boys and a fan of boxing, I'm both. I'm a fan of Manny and a fan of boxing since I was 9 years old. I saw the live fight of Ali and Frazier in Thrilla in Manila, I watch the live feed when Tyson was terrorizing the Heavy Division. I saw live telecast of Hagler, Leonard, Duran, Trinidad, Dela Hoya, Roy Jones, and many more boxers I adore and sometimes imitates whenever I'm at the gym shadow boxing. Yes, I'm aware of Arums trickery, I'm aware of his lies, but I'm also aware of his accomplishments of making big fights. Do I like how he lies and steal from Manny? Hell no. Why wouldn't I be worried about someone's money being stolen? Or his financial problems, And what can i do to stop Arum from doing it? But when someone attack Manny's personal life, nationality, race, religion or what not? I tried my best to defend Manny as a fan of his. Do I have an open mind? Heck yeah. Just don't attack his race, cultures, and his religion and I'm cool with it.

Arum has never stolen money from Manny. Hes made Manny oje of the richest athletes and most popular athletes on the whole planet. Manny had tax problems because he spent too much and gave too much to charity plain and simple. It had nothing to do with bob arum. You think bob arum can steal 5 or ten or even a million dollars from a fighter without them noticing? Lol like Manny doesn't check his bank account to see if a 20 million dollar or whatever check has been deposited? Lol get real top rank promotes 60 of the best fighters on the planet. Nobody ever complains of top rank not paying except mayweather who lies. Everyone else thanks him all the time. Pacquiao, cotto, Marquez, Tim Bradley, Brandon Rios ECT. ECT. The biggest names in the sport fight for Top Rank and dig back with them their whole careers. Its not because arum steals from them, its because arum pays them huge money and also has HBO by himself in his back pocket. HBO pays alot more than ShowTime why don't you go study a little bit, bob arum graduated cum laude from Harvard. Hes no dummy and has promoted the biggest fighters and put on the biggest fights in boxing. He promoted Ali, hagler and hearns, all the hagler and Hearns and Roberto dhran superfights, de la Hoya, mayweather, Chavez. Sr. And Chavez Jr. Hes developed all the top ppv guys of the sport today. Arum is simply the best quit talking smack about bob arum and tell mayweather to sign the contract

[RSBonos]

there is absolutely no question floyd and manny talked about arums lying absolutely 100 percent even the eye witnesses said koncz blamed arum when floyd asked why they keep lying im sorry but that says it all

Arum has met with Haymon several times in the past month to make the fight, according to reports.

Give it a rest.

[Haterfree]

Catchweights? Manny knocked out prime Barrera the first time ever and he did it twice, beat prime morales 2/3 and a prime Marquez 2/3. All prime all at their best weight. Knocked out prime cotto. Knocked Ricky Hatton out as his best weight unlike Floyd who dragged him up to welterweight. Beat prime undefeated Tim Bradley twice. Manny has been cleaning out the welterweight and junior welterweight division for years. He cleaned out all the lower weights. Knocked out elite fighters in their primes at their best weights, what has Floyd done that has even come close to that? All the elites mayweather beat were either beaten by pacquiao, or past there prime. He beat De La Hoya way after his prime and already beaten a million times, beat Marquez who he dragged up from lightweight to welterweight for the first time ever, and still came in overweight he beat cotto after Manny knocked him out, and beat an undefeated canelo. Those are his best wins and the only sort of legit one was canelo although alot of people think canelo lost to Lara and trout. There is no comparing records, mannys is way stronger than mayweathers and I just proved it. Manny is going to win this fight if mayweather would just #sign the contract and by the way, Manny beat Marquez in the first fight but a judges error on the scorecards made it a draw. He scored the 3 knockdown first round a 10-7 instead of 10-6 and he admitted he made the error. So really Manny beat prime Marquez 3/3. Barrera knocked outx2 and Morales 2/3 all in their primes at their best weights, prime cotto, prime Tim Bradley x2 , mayweather can't touch that he never has and never will

Ricky Hatton was ranked top 10 p4p by all respected media outlets, undefeated & a multiple division champion. Hatton had won a World Title at WW before he ever fought Floyd. "Dragged him up to WW"?? Don't confuse opinion with reality. I know it hurts your feelings but Pac is 1-1 with Tim Bradley. Deal with it. Pac beat Oscar & Hatton after Floyd won fighter of the year beating them both in 2007. Floyd beat Cotto but Floyd didn't make him fight at a Catchweight. Floyd outclassed the great Juan Marquez. Marquez knocked Pac the **** out last time they were together & this isn't the 1st time Pac was KOd. Mayweather has rarely even come close to seeing the canvas. Those are facts son.

[SolonGee]

im sorry but arum is so full of **** and im tired of no body calling him out whether u back mayweather or pac im just tired of it this is about mayweather and pac get out of the way arum its pretty obvious by what koncz said that the tv issues were resolved last night not 2 weeks ago just stop ur not fooling anybody anymore pac fans need to back pac and quit backing arum seriously

Bob Arum has promoted superfights like Hagler vs Leonard, Chavez vs De La Hoya, Holyfield vs Foreman, Foreman vs Moorer, Leonard vs Hearns, Hagler vs Hearns, Ali vs Frazier II and both Ali vs Spinks. He promoted great fights like Erik Morales vs Barrera, Pacquiao vs Hatton, Bradley vs Marquez and many more that I forgot.

Arum has huge resume of making big fights happen. And to say Bob is blocking Pacquiao vs Mayweather is foolish.

Here's Muhammad Ali with his promoter Bob Arum. imgur .com/wFQtCsr.jpg


Floyd's Legendary Ducking Resume
99 ducked Joel Casamayor and shane mosley (fought chavez)
02 grew balls and fought Castillo (and Castillo got robbed)
02 (time frame) ducked Margarito (fought ZAB JUDAH? Who just lost)
04 ducked Kostya Tszyu and winky wright to fight Demarcus Corley, Henry Bruseles and Arturo Gatti
08 ducked Paul Williams and Margarito to fight cotto
09 ducked Pacquiao and Mosley and fought a lesser risk Marquez
10 ducked Pacquiao
11 ducked Pacquiao
12 ducked Pacquiao (HBO is trying to make Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.)
13 ducked Pacquiao (Floyd go to Showtime to make it harder for Bob Arum to make the fight happen.)
14 ducked Pacquiao
15 36yr old Pacquiao slightly loss speed and power. Time to fight?

Floyd also avoided Acelino Freitas, Paul Spadafora, Leonard Dorin and Sergio Martinez.

Most recent ducked fighters, Khan and Lara. Pacquiao and Lara were Floyd's mandatory. What the so called TBE do? He made a poll between Khan and Maidana. Fans choose Khan. Khan won the poll. Floyd choose the slow and flatfooted Maidana. Not only he ignore his mandatory, he ignore his own poll and more importantly, he ignore his own fans.

[MDPopescu]

I will bet real money if you agree that Floyd should let Manny use an 8oz Cleto Reyes gloves. Deal?

... ^^^ This here...

I lost interest in Floyd's fights starting with the moment he changed Maidana's gloves with 24 hours prior to the actual fight.

If I see Pac coming in the ring with those Mickey Mouse foam padded gloves, then I'm still not interested -- it will be a huge money fight only and nothing more.

(later edit: I still think that Floyd would be able to win even if Pac is using his Cleto Reyes...)

[Haterfree]

^ Just because you have time to write a lot of paragraphs doesn't mean ***. I have to be quick. Floyd is undefeated in 5 different weight classes in almost his 20th year as a Pro. Has beaten multiple undefeated champions while breaking all sorts of boxing gate & PPV records. He is also a sure 1st ballot hall of famer. Once he beats Manny P he will have won all 3 of the most lucrative fights in history. Those are facts. What reason does he have to avoid the fight? I know haters hate it. LOL

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Who's Mary J Blidge?

Are you being teeth-in-cheek?

[shadow-boxer]

Arum has never stolen money from Manny. Hes made Manny oje of the richest athletes and most popular athletes on the whole planet. Manny had tax problems because he spent too much and gave too much to charity plain and simple. It had nothing to do with bob arum. You think bob arum can steal 5 or ten or even a million dollars from a fighter without them noticing? Lol like Manny doesn't check his bank account to see if a 20 million dollar or whatever check has been deposited? Lol get real top rank promotes 60 of the best fighters on the planet. Nobody ever complains of top rank not paying except mayweather who lies. Everyone else thanks him all the time. Pacquiao, cotto, Marquez, Tim Bradley, Brandon Rios ECT. ECT. The biggest names in the sport fight for Top Rank and dig back with them their whole careers. Its not because arum steals from them, its because arum pays them huge money and also has HBO by himself in his back pocket. HBO pays alot more than ShowTime why don't you go study a little bit, bob arum graduated cum laude from Harvard. Hes no dummy and has promoted the biggest fighters and put on the biggest fights in boxing. He promoted Ali, hagler and hearns, all the hagler and Hearns and Roberto dhran superfights, de la Hoya, mayweather, Chavez. Sr. And Chavez Jr. Hes developed all the top ppv guys of the sport today. Arum is simply the best quit talking smack about bob arum and tell mayweather to sign the contract

Do us a favor, will you? Take your lies and shove it up your a$$!

[shadow-boxer]

Catchweights? Manny knocked out prime Barrera the first time ever and he did it twice, beat prime morales 2/3 and a prime Marquez 2/3. All prime all at their best weight. Knocked out prime cotto. Knocked Ricky Hatton out as his best weight unlike Floyd who dragged him up to welterweight. Beat prime undefeated Tim Bradley twice. Manny has been cleaning out the welterweight and junior welterweight division for years. He cleaned out all the lower weights. Knocked out elite fighters in their primes at their best weights, what has Floyd done that has even come close to that? All the elites mayweather beat were either beaten by pacquiao, or past there prime. He beat De La Hoya way after his prime and already beaten a million times, beat Marquez who he dragged up from lightweight to welterweight for the first time ever, and still came in overweight he beat cotto after Manny knocked him out, and beat an undefeated canelo. Those are his best wins and the only sort of legit one was canelo although alot of people think canelo lost to Lara and trout. There is no comparing records, mannys is way stronger than mayweathers and I just proved it. Manny is going to win this fight if mayweather would just #sign the contract and by the way, Manny beat Marquez in the first fight but a judges error on the scorecards made it a draw. He scored the 3 knockdown first round a 10-7 instead of 10-6 and he admitted he made the error. So really Manny beat prime Marquez 3/3. Barrera knocked outx2 and Morales 2/3 all in their primes at their best weights, prime cotto, prime Tim Bradley x2 , mayweather can't touch that he never has and never will

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