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Let’s not rush Mayweather-Pacquiao, five years from now would be just perfect
Published on: 29th January, 2012
Michael Marley
What’s good for boxing may not be best for either Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather Jr.
And when you come down to it, isn’t why neither camp is embracing the other and not rushing into any kind of serious negotiations to make the so called Super Fight?
I have a small belief now, based on tea leaves as usual, that Floyd and Manny will fight each other in November.
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But my larger belief is that the parties will do what’s best for themselves. In other words, crabs and lobsters are shellfish while Team Pacquiao and Team Mayweather are selfish.
Floyd, whose Nevada boxing license hearing next week is a stilted formality, can keep going on almost endlessly picking on the Victor Ortiz types and pulling in $25 to $30 million per bout. Be sure that Mayweather’s next patsy–my guess remains Carrot Top Canelo Alvarez–will be announced about 15 seconds after the Great State of Nevada hands him his new occupational license.
And, the skeptics and naysayers remain correct, that on the side, Uncle Bob Arum’s continually restocked bullpen of “acceptable” Pacman foes is likely to be empty by the time Top Rank really wants its cash cow to face “Money.” And, of course, Pacman will ring up similar paynights, as good or better than Mayweather’s by fighting opponents from Central Casting.
Why else would Uncle Bobster be working so feverishly to set up his “Win A Date With Pacquiao” tournament?
Miguel Cotto may be the lone “wild card” in this deck because he can cash in big against Mayweather or in a rematch with Da Pacman but let’s move on to the other likelies.
Arum can toss Tim Bradley in to be Manny’s June 9 opponent and the money take will not go down in any appreciable manner.
Then he can pit the Lamont Peterson-Juan Manuel Marquez winner against Manny come November, another viable alternative to Floyd-Manny.
So who’s left then, assuming Pacman keeps winning?
(Hell, if Manny loses to Juan Ma don;t you know they would move on their fifth fight. They might match the Sugar Ray Robinson-Jake LaMotta six bout series…)
Here’s where you may understimate TR’s bullpen strength. That’s where, for 2013, a Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios figures to cash his Pinoy Idol Lottery ticket.
Mayweather-Pacquiao, will it be November or Neveruary?
Maybe should just wait another five years as Mayweather, age 35 next month, will then turn 40.
Let’s see how nifty his footwork and shoulder rolls are then, eh?
Besides, Pacquiao will only be 38, lol.
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I said it b4, I say it again. Floyd is reallly scared of Manny. D way 2 figure out that he is a coward is 2 put what he himself said, he said, “Manny is an easy fight.”. Now, u put that together with d MOST MONEY that Floyd will ever earn in his lifetime, and u come up always with d same conclusion that Floyd is a coward. Why would Floyd take on fights more hard and less money? He really, really scared of Manny.