goodbye beautiful OP (though I think they'll end up fighting still)

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How does Floyd not take up this fight. For $40m he can afford to risk his undefeated record, which doesn't seem to mean much to boxing enthusiast anyway. Not a boxing fan, but I watched Cotto-Paquiao and man I was hyped to watch Mayweather-Paquiao. Floyd has to be an idiot to pass up that money. Like others have said in the thread, the best defensive fighter of the decade vs the best offensive fighter. The obvious and only move for boxing.

He probably is at the point where adding $40M to his networth won't change his lifestyle at all.

Pacquiao should have just offered to let Floyd take PEDs and brag that he'd beat Floyd anyway.

lame

Is anyone going to pay $50 dollars to watch Floyd destroy Paulie? I won't.

How many years has Floyd been fighting at 147? And how many real welterweights has he fought? Zero.

Yeah cause it'd all be going to the IRS rather than himself.

These are all just antics. This was done before mediation and then they made some headway. The same thing will happen here. Fight probably doesn't happen on March 13th though.

Dan Rafael on ESPN said there is about a 2 day window to get this fight done if they want to fight on March 13th. I am keeping my fingers crossed, but not expecting anything.

Boxing promoters are so ****ing dumb...They have no idea how much Mayweather's brand and marketability have been tarnished (as with pacquiao).

The fact that Mayweather-Malignaggi is an option to them is insane. If Mayweather doesn't fight Pacquiao, Berto-Mosley winner, or Paul Williams in his next fight, he'll have 0 respect amongst boxing fans. His "brand" will be indefinitely tarnished. "If it makes dollars, it makes sense." I always understand/respect this from Floyd despite the hate he gets from a lot of boxing fans. However, cashing on an easy payday at this point does much more damage to his brand and marketability for future fights than good of a 6 or 7 million payday (ya...that's about how much he'll be getting vs Malignaggi imo).

Another factor they don't understand is HBO. Not only will boxing fans protest a Maligaggi-Mayweather type matchup, HBO will as well. Mayweather and Pacquiao will both get extremely lowball offers from them (imo) specifically to prove a point that if they want to make a fight, they have to make a fight the boxing public respects and won't damage the HBO boxing brand.

I'm not out of principle and I'm a huge boxing fan. I think most other big boxing fans feel the same way.

Standard procedure in England, house party >>>> Boxing. Split the cost of fight BOOM.

Profit ???

I don't know a ton about boxing but I agree with all of this. Plus can you even imagine how insufferable Dana White's rambling will be about how boxing never gives you the fight you want? Not that he would be far off from that but I really don't care to hear him go on about this forever...

as a less than casual boxing fan can someone tell me (or guess) what the odds are of this fight taking place? are we supposed to actually believe Arum?

I'd be shocked if the fight doesn't happen by the end of the year despite all of this.



Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Mayweather or Pacquiao (most likely mayweather) all of a sudden decide to make this fight happen. Then, even though the "give in", they have the opportunity to come of well saying "I had to do this for the good of the sport" etc etc bull****

I still think this fight will happen someday, probably not in March. Maybe sometime at the end of the year (hopefully).

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=4803490

Mayweather is a pussy imo. this is why mma is taking over, biggest boxing match since lennox-tyson and they cant get it done what a joke.

I wish there was a massive thread about this fight...

I know almost a mega fight thread

I'm really heartbroken atm. Shivering and shuddering like a homeless man caught in the cold clutches of a New York City winter. I need a drink.

Pussyboy Mayweather.

More than you realize.

"In 2004, Mayweather was convicted on two counts of battery for punching two women at a Las Vegas nightclub the previous year. He was given suspended prison sentences, $1,000 in fines and ordered to complete impulse control counseling.

Mayweather in 2002 pleaded guilty to two counts of domestic violence in one case and battery in another. In 2005, a jury acquitted him of a third domestic violence charge, a felony, after his accuser changed her story. He reportedly was convicted of battery in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich., and he has also been the subject of civil lawsuits accusing him of battery."

source: http://www.lvrj.com/news/10761301.html

Mayweather better ask for random Olympic style drug testing for every one of his fights from now on. If not, people will ask why he only demanded it for Pac.

Floyd should change his nickname from "Money" to "The Most Overrated Chicken **** in Boxing".

Ok, so I can't stand Mayweather as a person, and I think Pac is great, but I'm struggling to see who is more at fault here.

Mayweather made a request for drugs testing (which I assume he would be required for also) and Pac has refused. Surely any athelete competing in a contest of this magnitude would happily submit to testing? There's the excuse that taking blood made him weak before a previous fight, but they're not exactly taking a pint out of him. Can the amount of blood they take out of you for a test really make you that much weaker? I can't really see why Pac didn't just say "whatever, get on with it and get the fight sorted".