It’s official. 2010 just took its first major L. Guaranteed to be the biggest fight (and PPV draw) in over a quarter century, it now looks like the only jabs Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao will be delivering are verbal.
“The fight’s off,” [Bob] Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, said from Las Vegas.
See, I told you. Apparently the whole mediation idea was about as successful as Bow Wow trying to get people to believe his new mixtape really did a million downloads in a day. That’s another post, for another day. The fight was cancelled (and my hopes slaughtered) mainly because the two sides could not come to an agreement over drug testing leading to the fight. PacMan was even documented as agreeing to certain stipulations, but Floyd would not budge on the issue of random testing.
The fight died after a last-ditch attempt at mediation between Top Rank and Golden Boy, which represents Mayweather, failed in an effort to determine the drug-testing protocol.
Pacquiao had agreed to move off his hard-line stance of refusing a blood test inside 30 days before the fight, but Mayweather wouldn’t budge off his desire for random testing all the way until the fight, Arum said. Nor would Mayweather agree to a public apology for remarks he made accusing Pacquiao of using performance-enhancing drugs, Arum said.
It sucks that it came to this, but life moves on and Pacquiao is already planning to fight Yuri Foreman on March 13 or 20. At least by then I’ll have March Madness to ease the pain. While I’m wallowing in my own self-pity, Bob Arum is throwing shots left and right and all are directed towards the man who has never taken a professional loss.
“Manny accepted what was on the table and Mayweather rejected it,” Arum said. “Haymon and Schaefer tried to convince Floyd all [Tuesday night] and [Wednesday] and he wouldn’t agree to it. He didn’t want the fight. He never wanted the fight. I always knew the fight wouldn’t happen.”
Yeah, in a round about way, he just called Floyd Mayweather a pussy. Those are fighting words regardless of how they were intended. So much for those TSS press passes though. The whole crew in Vegas would have really been on some “Hangover“-type madness.
Arum: ‘The Fight’s Off’ [ESPN]
**UPDATE**
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Pacquiao backed out cause Floyd wouldn’t say sorry?
And Floyd’s the pussy?
Sho ya right.
see y’all in Austin
this shows that mayweather just doesn’t want to fight and is scared of losing his perfect record.
basura
I’m with MZ. See you in Austin. It’s a shame ego got in the way of this fight.
I doubt very seriously Floyd is “scared.”
Austin’s less expensive than Vegas, lol.
Both places are still on my list of where to partake in dumb shit
it’s always something with mayweather. at least the “pacquiao is on peds. we need this drug testing” nonsense is better than the “he’s not a big enough draw to fight me” excuse that he’s used plenty of times before. he’s a creative ducker. you have to give him that.
Iono…
Now I do not have to worry about hearing my Filipino folk make it all about race (they have with all of the Latino fighters he smashed – real talk).
And it is cool to have pride but man… come on… at least LIKE boxing or know the name of one other boxer. Educate yourself just a little about the sport please.
My Filipino’s are cool people, and I am glad Pac-Man has the support… but if that ain’t jumping on a trend for all the wrong reasons… I do not know what is.
Matthew Hatton will tell you that Mayweather contacted him no less than 3 times to set up a fight with him. Now what’s that tell you? What’s really good with that?
That shows me a lack of commitment on Mayweather’s part to make the fight that everyone has wanted all along.
I think its safe to say both camps could have made this fight happen, but for whatever reason on either side they didn’t want to. Near the end of negotiations it seems like either of them could have conceded some minor shit to make it happen. Right now they are both pussies imo.
Manny is breathing easy right now. I can his heartbeat like Sasquatch feet.
Mayweather is a HUGE douche bag!!!!! Keep talking and making up excuses, he will never be “GREAT” because he won’t fight the best. Mayweather is just mad his mama didn’t love him enough.
Just like the guy said at the end. Golden boy will have to budge. You dont have negotiations just to have one side not try to come to terms at all and thats what Goldenboy and Floyd did.
“You dont have negotiations just to have one side not try to come to terms at all and thats what Goldenboy and Floyd did.”
Word.
I will agree with that.
That is not a negotiation by any means.
bullcrrrap
next time. but
this fight will be an obligation
this winter probably
beginning of 2011
damn pac’s camp do an offer,
floyd’s camp need to do it also,
then create a damn 50/50 with, and go head fo MARCH bitches !!!
Damn shame.
I was gonna get one of them villa suites, like in The Hangover. Would’ve had a grand old time…and I just know y’all woulda put me down with a press pass cuzz.
I woulda insisted that LC be present for the fun. Trick mad dollars on her and stuff. Git ‘er drunk and e’rthang.
lol
Ya fools if y’all think the fight’s off.
i think the fight will happen eventually. money mayweather aint scared either, if u ask me manny is at fault here. i give mayweather credit for probably being one of the few athletes who are at the top of their sport and when he says hes all natural can be believed.
@ RU
‘Tis true. Seems like more of an ultimatum from Mayweathers camp and a somewhat attempted negotiation from pacs. I think the fight will still happen. As an objective observer I at first was led to believe Mayweather was scared, but considering the terms stated above it is hard to see it any way other than manny being on the juice.
Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey.
3/13/Twenty-Ten.
Clottey is a beast.
and….
your boy Mayweather bet on Pacquiao against Cotto.
ha
VERY smart move for Manny. Clottey’s a respectable but relatively safe fight. He comes with some brutal body work but that shell defense will be terrible against an aggressive, wild/wide-punching guy like Manny. Takes him way too long to go from defense to offense too… Pacman will win decisively, boosting his leverage even more when it’s time to renegotiate this fight with Floyd.
here’s the LEGIT opinion: mayweather ducked pac, but tried to make pac look like a p*ss anyways. just like in the hood, some dude ducked another cuz the first would whip the second, but the second wanna make stupid rules that the first knows the first is gonna lie about anyways. if mayweather really wanna “WHIP HIS ASS”, wouldn’t it be a bigger statement to beat his punk filipino, half gook-half spic ass and then talk shit afterwards like “even y’all fuckers on roids, you can’t beat me”????? mayweather = mad pussy. cuz ali wasn’t scared to fight foreman and foreman was waaaaaaaaaaaay heavier than him.
100% fuck mayweather for being pussy.
@DC Your point’s completely irrelevant but Foreman was only 3 pounds heavier than Ali. I wasn’t going to say anything but I’d feel bad thinking you were going through life typing ridiculous things like that and I didn’t try to help you out.
here’s the thing… EVERYBODY + THEY MOMMA (AND YOURS) was scared for Ali. we’ve all seen the documentary (it’s called “when we were kings”) and they were scared for ali. And the only person who believed in Ali was Ali (“I’m gonna dance” and we said “yes, you’re gonna dance”; that would include his trainer).
So, here’s the point and I have no clue what your race is, but if you have any African ancestry, (and this is not a disparaging remark at all), there is a part of you that is afraid of losing some respect (or status) to someone who you feel is not as “tough” as you are which is why you disregard Pacquiao as an opponent. In the grand scheme of the hierarchy…you don’t believe bruce lee could actually give you the energy sector (the business, if you will) even though he would.
Sure, he was 3.5 lbs heavier, but Ali was in his head. The same way Mayweather is trying to get inside of Pac’s head. And as an Asian, I pray to God, Allah, Vishnu and every other god that Mayweather doesn’t get there, so that Pac is triumphant. (Even though, as an unopiniated by-stander, it looks like Pac-mac is already inside of Mayweather’s head. If not, why wouldn’t your Golden Child just let Pac do him, roid’s and all?)
So, here’s the real thing, so you don’t think I’m going through life typing stupid shit…why doesn’t mayweather just whip his ass anyways and then “expose” him as the fraud he is afterwards? Wouldn’t that wreck Pac-man even more?
(Plus, at 200+ lbs. 3.5 lbs. is like 1.75 lbs, and if you wanted to go against anybody that was equal in every other way, but you had a 1.75% advantage, you’d probably want that advantage anyways, wouldn’t you?) Don’t be an internet gangsta…and absolutely not if the other dude could argue you out of a wet paper bag. Or a dry one.
Wanksta. © Fiddy. Spell it with me. Dee Yuu En. DUN. DONE. Come back when you don’t steal a nickname from your childhood rap idol. Or come back when you steal Kanye’s, it doesn’t really matter to me, cuz I will put you under the table like that bitch in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The underscore doesn’t help your cause.
PS: Just so you know, MJ was just ahead of Clyde by .25 of a percentage FG wise over his career. And MJ was just ahead of .26 of a percentage point over Reggie Miller. If you really wanna argue whether or not percentage points matter. Cuz if Glyde is on the same level as MJ, you’ve been drinking a lot, and if Reggie is on the same level as MJ, I got a pair of 11′s I wanna sell you. Seriously, I’m not kidding with you, don’t come after me if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
How. My. Ass. Taste. ’10 Comment Beef = DC vs. young_ (with an underscore). I wish I felt bad.
The reason the fight aint happening is cuz Mayweather wants random blood testing and Pacquiao wants it scheduled so he can work around the dates with his steroid use…in this day-and-age of sports cheaters, random testing is more effective than a set time…btw Bob Arum has been negative throughout all of this anyway…he admitted he’d rather Pacquiao fight some1 else b4 the negotiations even began becuz of his dislike of Mayweather…he’s been the one very quick to call this fight off and has always been pessimistic throughout this whole thing,,,1st Pac Man claims he’s afraid of needles (blood tests) but then u see he’s got tats all over his body and come find out he took blood test b4 he fought Hatton…he’s been contradicting himself this whole time, especially his promoter Arum who rather have Pacquiao fight another boxer he promotes so he can get the most $ out of all this
If not, why wouldn’t your Golden Child just let Pac do him, roid’s and all?
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Huh?!?
Let’s just have a 100 yard foot race and you give me a 75 yard head start.
Floyd aint scared of this little motherfucker,and if any of you seriously believe that,I seriously believe youve never watched Money May Box ever before…..this sucks that they couldnt work it out.
I’ve been left dazed and confused by DC’s reply comments Either I just got severely ethered or (s)he’s an utter moron.
In any case, I’m bummed that this fight didn’t get made either. I’m not sure if it’s just a matter of pride (by Pacquiao or, more likely, Arum) or if Pacquiao really does have something to hide. Either way, Floyd’s position was extremely reasonable. Freddie Roach was pushing Pac to accept it and one of the most respected experts in the game, Teddy Atlas, cosigned as well. Too bad.
okay I have a question….i know nothing about drug testing but I assume that if they take a test right after the fight, would that not show if he’s on ped’s? is there some way to hide it? he even agreed to test within a month before the fight…so you mean to tell me you can hide that shit from within a month before and right after?? the tests would pick up nothing?
ain’t nobody have a problem for any other fight about this issue…just this one…
mayweather needs to stop with the tomfoolery and get in the ring. or just go chill with 50 cent and take care of rick ross’ kids…dudes more fit for the wwe
@tronic: No… certain peds like some of the more modern HGH products only show up within 48 hours of use. The World Anti-Doping Agency has discussed this for a while now.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-05-27-hgh-cover_N.htm
he whose point contradicts his own argument = utter moron. 3lbs ain’t shit.
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floyd acts like an idiot, and might be one, but he’s a great fighter who finally truly does have the upper hand in this debate. now it’s manny’s turn to come up with excuses…
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bottom line, though, is until they actually cut out the pissing contest and agree to a date, this whole thing is just super gay, and hardly deserves any real attention.
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i know, how ’bout the media just ‘ignore’ the two of them until they reach an agreement? that’ll speed the process along…
The bottom line to me is this:
Floyd is demanding things that arent required by the commission, and that hes never demanded of anyone else.
Manny is saying fuck all that, who are you to demand anything?
Until one of em backs off their respective stance, it aint goin down. But i do think the fight will still happen. Maybe not necessarily on March 13th, but its gonna have to happen.
young_ that information is new to me…wouldn’t 3 random tests regardless of the time to the fight date be a successful test? If anything Pac fights like he’s on 2 cans of Spike and has great physical genetics. Those who know, will understand how powerful religion is, that’s where his power comes from, Fedor is similar in that way…I was so excited to see this happen, is it really over? Or is there a slight chance that money ;) can make my whish come true? __Thanks to everyone…I luv TSS
i think manny is using the newest form of steroids that can’t be detected in a urine test which is why he won’t do a blood test so close to the fight. but regardless mayweather would probably still beat him even if he was juiced so he should just fight him anyway
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