If Pacquiao vs. Mayweather Never Gets Made, Manny Deserves Blame Too
Published Jul 26 2010 by: Brandon Taylor | Follow us on Facebook & on Twitter
Pacquiao Never Meeting Mayweather Leaves a Hole in His Resume
It has become apparent that Manny Pacquiao will not fight Floyd Mayweather this year, and perhaps won’t ever. Mayweather could be idle for the rest of the year, while Pacquiao will fight in November. He’s going up to 154 lbs to attempt to win a historic 8th world title in 8 weight classes. As great as that sounds, he’s not fighting Sergio Martinez, who is the Middleweight champion, and also shares the distinction of being perhaps the best Junior Middleweight in the world... nor is he fighting Paul Williams.
Instead, Pacquiao will fight either Miguel Cotto for the WBA title in a rematch of their catchweight welterweight bout, or Antonio Margartio for the WBC Title that Martinez vacated. I don’t think the fans really want to see either of those fights, and it's time that Pacquiao and his camp share the blame for the clash against Mayweather crumbling apart.
Pacquiao busted Cotto up pretty bad in their first fight and I don’t think a few pounds will make that much of a difference. Margarito really doesn’t deserve a title shot, much less a fight against Pacquiao. By now everyone knows what happened in the dressing room before the Mosley fight. Margarito’s reward for being suspended for cheating and then coming back and looking average against an average fighter in his comeback fight is a chance to fight the best in the sport and win a world title? That’s a joke. Even though I believe Mayweather is ducking Pacquiao, Pacquiao is also going to be tarnished a little if the fight never happens.
The whole drug testing bit is bogus, but Pacquiao could have went through with it. I don’t think Pacquiao is using anything, but him not agreeing to the blood testing leaves doubt in some people’s heads. It probably was an issue of principles, Pacquiao didn’t want to give Mayweather the control. I understand that. However, Manny’s career resume will have a hole in it if the fight never gets made. A lot of people don’t want excuses. They just want to see the fight.
Getting back to reality, what happens next if Pacquiao defeats Cotto or Margarito, and negotiations fall through next year for a Mayweather fight once again? Pacquiao could retire, but I hope not. There could be some big time fights that would challenge the Filipino star before he hangs up the gloves. That’s the one thing we all can agree on. We want to see Pacquiao challenged.
By next spring, Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez, Tim Bradley, and Devon Alexander could all be in position for a fight with Pacquiao. Lurking in the background is always Juan Manuel Marquez depending on how his fight with Juan Diaz goes and if he takes a fight at 140. I would really like to see a third Marquez fight, even though the odds are slim. Just so maybe we could have a definite conclusion to the rivalry.
The point is that the best way for Pacquiao to continue his Hall of Fame career is to continue fighting fighters who represent challenges. Morales at 130, Hatton at 140, Oscar at 147, those were all fights were people weren’t sure Pacquiao could do, but he passed each one of those tests. There are bigger challenges for him right now than Cotto or Margarito.
I find that a lot of boxing writers are not really followers of Manny. They write about him because that is their job but they don’t really follow him and even try to understand what he says whenever he is being interviewed. Try to watch all the previous interviews of Manny and you will always hear one answer from him whenever he is asked whom he wants to fight… “I am a fighter and my job is too fight. It’s the job of my promoter (Bob Arum) to decide who should I fight. I will fight anybody that my promoter will ask me to fight.” He never called out anybody to fight he always left it to his promoter. The only fighter he called out was Mayweather and that is after Floyd challenged him to step on the plate if he really want them to fight. Manny oblige and now we all know that Floyd is just joking. He never really have any intention of fighting Manny. How would you blame Manny specially now that Mayweather made it clear to everyone that he prefers to be on vacation and not even thinking of boxing at this point of his life. How could you make a fight with someone who does not want to fight and blame the other guy for the fight not being made. Is that very hard to understand? FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. WANTS TO ENJOY YACHTING AND HIS VACATION AND NOT EVEN THINKING OF BOXING RIGHT NOW. THOSE WORDS CAME DIRECTLY FROM FLOYD’S BIG MOUTH. NOW IS THAT CLEAR ENOUGH????
mr. writer. sorry but you’re wrong. hbo’s greenburg just issued a statement that there were indeed negotiations happened. you could only blame your F@G Floyd for it not happening.
I beg to differ, I think you can’t blame Manny at all, You can’t easily catch the chicken runs away from you. Specially the one who talk to much, and think some other thing to duck.
greenburg has confirmed that floyd is a coward. lmao.
THIS WRITER BRANDON IS ANOTHER IDIOT,, SUPER FANATIC FAN OF FLOYDOIT,, OR MAYBE HE EARNED A LOT FOT WRITING IN FAVOR OF FLOYDOIT,, SHAME ON YOU BRANDON,, RUINING HIS OWN ENTIGRITY AS A W3RITER FOR FLOYD..
c’mon, pacman has already agreed the 14 days cut-off that money wanted, so whats the hold-up? its definitely mayweather’s fault. period.
you sir, are a f!#%king idiot!! have u read the news lately? why would u blame manny when he has already agreed virtually everything that f@g floyd demanded? are u really a reporter? seems like your basis were so outdated. read the chatter first before writing non-sense such as this.
You are one Floyd nuthugger, aren’t you? Have you heard the news from The Ring and ESPN? The HBO President hs alreday made a statement that there were negotiations. And FYI, Manny did agree for a 14-day cut-off. You are one STUPID writer!
@Brandon Taylor – TOINK! TOINK! TOINK! wonder what hits your forehead? Oh. a plastic toy mallet I borrowed from Nevada Clowns. You deserve that. TOINK! again!
There is no way that Manny could be blame on this failed negotiations. He did everything he could to make this fight. Mayweather just ran like scared chicken. Money ran out of excuses co’z after the failed negotiations he didn’t come-out and issue a statement. Pacquiao agreed on everything he asked for but ’till he did’nt sign the contract offer from Pacquiao’s team. That no negotiation thing is a big “BULLSHIT”. All you read on the internet is all about the big fight but nobody came-out and said that there was no negotiation going on. Money’s team made all the Press and fans look like an idiot. Thye should be ashame of themselves. There should be some kind of punishment that should be done on them. That’s why boxing is going down. They don’t have a Commission for the entire sports. It’s only States, but the Commissions should get involve when big fights like this needs to get made……Fuck the GBP and the Mayweathers and Elerbe……… Don’t get me wrong I like Floyd as a Fighter but not as a person……….