"I'm an optimist, and I always felt that they'd eventually fight. At this point, I really feel that they'd never fight. Recently, as recent as this week, legitimate people from Singapore offered Mayweather 65 million dollars to fight Manny Pacquiao and turned he it down. 65 million is obviously is a sum Manny Pacquiao would accepted. Now what does that tell you?" -- Bob Arum
Nobody gets people in boxing talking like boxing reporter Elie Seckbach. Recently, Elie asked Top Rank CEO Bob Arum if he thinks that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will ever face Manny Pacquiao. Arum's answer was quite revealing.
Arum admitted that as much as he wants to be optimistic that the fight the world wants to see between Pacquiao and Mayweather will eventually be made, the series of roadblocks coming from the Mayweather camp since the initial negotiations for the fight back in late 2009 all the way to as recent as this week when he was offered $65 million to fight Pacquiao, he is convinced that Mayweather wants no part of the superfight.
"One thing about Floyd: Floyd knows boxing, and Floyd knows style. That's why Floyd was always reticent about fighting a southpaw. And a southpaw like Manny Pacquiao, he doesn't want no part of, because even if he protects himself from his left, he's going to bang him with his right hand," Arum told Seckbach.
Whether you take Arum's word or not, Mayweather's actions since this whole Pacquiao fight was thrown at him is definitely alarming. Mayweather flip-flops from bashing Pacquiao to mumbling and not even being able to say his name altogether. The money is there. The drug testing has been agreed upon. Why is Mayweather making things so difficult for this fight to be made?
With one contradicting statement after another, Mayweather is only making fools out of people that believe him, and a mockery of the sport that made him- unless of course if you ask his pom-pom girl and boxing blogger Ben Thompson of FightHype.com, who's site's slogan is "A Fight is a Fight" (Thompson's is to kiss a fighter's butt so the Twitter TMZ-style reporter can brag that they are BFFs). Unfortunately, Mayweather won't even fight.
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