Mayweather To Pacquiao: You Agreed? You Have No Say!
Posted by: Edward Chaykovsky on 1/20/2015
By Edward Chaykovsky
WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. spoke out publicly for the first time on the ongoing negotiations to make a mega-fight with WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Pacquiao recently stated, in several interviews, that he agreed to all of the terms - on his side of the negotiations. Bob Arum of Top Rank, who promotes Pacquiao, says his company is also satisfied with the terms.
Based on Mayweather's comments, the fight is not as close as everyone seems to be writing.
"Hopefully its Mayweather-Pacquiao [on May 2nd]. Of course we are trying to make the fight happen between me and Pacquiao. Are we negotiating? Absolutely we are negotiating. But Pacquiao said that he agreed to everything. What did you agree to? You have no say so. You have a boss. You don't have no say so. You have a boss.....that's called Top Rank Promotions. It's not called Pacquiao Promotions. With my company, it's called Mayweather Promotions," Mayweather stated during an interview with Shade 45 Radio.
"We have been going back and forth, communicating with their team. Hopefully we can make this fight happen. Once again, we have to look at his pay-per-view numbers. His last fight didn't even do 300,000 homes. Figures make sense. He did get knocked out not too long ago. No matter what you say, Floyd Mayweather still winning. When they take shots at Floyd Mayweather, he still winning and making hundreds of millions.
"We're going to make it happen though. We're trying, but it's been extremely difficult dealing with Top Rank. And I don't want to sit here and point the finger at Pacquiao and say 'it's him.' It's not Pacquiao, it's his promoter. A lot of times when Pacquiao says 'I agreed' - you don't have nothing to do with this, you're not a boss. On a chess board you're a pawn."
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This nikka Mayweather just be going in on Pacquiao everytime
But, on another note...what I took from that is this: Floyd said "we have to look at his pay-per-view number. His last didnt even do 300,000 homes. Figures make sense." meaning to ME that thay ARE being held up in negotiations over the split that @LeVraiPapi was talking about in his post on page 47 from his insider (Arum wants a bigger ppv split and using HBO to basically "do his dirty work").
Floyd ALSO said "I dont want to sit here and point the finger at Pacquiao and say 'it's him,' It's not Pacquiao, it's his promoter." meaning to ME that the info that, again, @LeVraiPapi posted on page 47 is correct, because that's what his insider told him and sounds like what Floyd is going off about.......Arum is holding up the fight.
@LeVraiPapi got a legit source
we was talking about the hbo and showtime meetings last night
... and look at fukking Arum
what a consistent piece of shyt.
......a figher of pacquiao's caliber is Not getting arturo gatti'd....by ANYBODY. floyd in his absolute prime couldn't do pacquiao like he did gatti. lets be serious here.
