Comments Thread For: Pacquiao, Top Rank Joint Statement on Mayweather Fight

[bojangles1987]

They're only doing this to try and land a rematch. It might work, too.

Pac seriously needs to stop this. I know the guy has a huge ego, but sometimes you need to admit you were the lesser man in the ring.

[MrRolltide91]

this is bull****...

two things;

1. this was THE BIGGEST fight of his career and he decides to go thru with it at less than 100%?

2. why wouldn't they inform NSAC to make sure that they can use it?


i'm a huge Manny fan but everything coming out of his team after the fight is an embarrassment


what happened to the humble Manny that accepted getting robbed vs Bradley?

best to just give Floyd his props and just STFU

Because they if they had lost, they could used the injury as an excuse and forced the rematch

[lacson]

WOW, just WOW.

The Nevada Athletic Commission just robbed the whole world out of a great fight. Some heads should roll for this.

[V.WEBB]

The irony of wanting injections... smh. The only way it could get worse for Pac is if he failed his drug test.

His Stans cried about Floyd getting shots for his bad hands and called it PEDS. And now they're mad that NSAC wouldn't let Manny get some shots for his shoulder.

[HAY-B]

If Manny makes no excuses then why has he been blaming his performance on his shoulder and the NSAC. The anti-inflammatory shot would not have made any difference in the outcome of the fight.
Him and The Joke Coach Roach need to man up and admit that FMJ nullified their offense attack. They need to congratulate FMJ on his win and keep it moving because a rematch will not produce any different result in favor of Manny. He got out boxed, point blank, period.

[-PBP-]

They're only doing this to try and land a rematch. It might work, too.

Pac seriously needs to stop this. I know the guy has a huge ego, but sometimes you need to admit you were the lesser man in the ring.

Its not Manny its Bob. He did this with Donaire too.

[DD09]

Funny thing is, his shoulder had nothing to do with the way he came out. I rewatched his earlier fights today and one impressing difference was how much movement he had going forward. Bopping and weaving a la Mike Tyson and on his toes and moving forward with no fear throwing. This fight he came out so cautious with none of his aggressiveness and movement he displayed earlier on his career and throwing no punches. So in my opinion, they either had the gameplan completely wrong or he is just gun shy because his fear of getting countered was so high. Either way, I didn't see any display of a shoulder hurting or even the corner ASKING about his shoulder. Nothing. Maybe I missed but I didn't see any mention in his corner alluding to an injured shoulder. No ice on it, no rubbing it, nothing. I think he just showed up to collect a big payday. Plain and simple.

[Tom Cruise]

Have post fight excuses ever gone down well from a PR perspective?

David Haye, Nonito Donaire, Stiverne etc. All claim after big fights that they werent 100%, and all were roundly hated on for saying it. Just stfu, accept the loss, move on.

[lacson]

NSAC's idea of a Fair Playing Field:

Allow Mayweather his xylocaine shots for his hands and arms.
Disallow Pacquiao his toradol shots for his shoulder.

[PivotandRoll]

NSAC's idea of a Fair Playing Field:

Allow Mayweather his xylocaine shots for his hands and arms.
Disallow Pacquiao his toradol shots for his shoulder.

except if you knew anything you'd know Floyd can only use it in training not during a fight....same with manny

but as Freddie Roach once said "let the commission do their job"