I find it hard to believe anything Arum says tbh.
I wonder if Floyd will be pushing the blood testing again.
I wonder if Floyd will be pushing the blood testing again.
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Frampton's next fight is on ITV!!
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Who will they have doing the show? Rosenthal used to do ITV boxing years back. I can't recall the last fight ITV had. Who'll do the commentary?Comment
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They've got to put Andy Townsend and Chiles somewhereThe times they are a changin'.Comment
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"If anything he hit him too well"
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Boxing stars Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao chat briefly at NBA game
By Kevin Iole
5 hours ago
Boxing
Manny Pacquiao happened to have a free day in Miami on Tuesday and decided to go to the Heat-Bucks game at American Airlines Arena. Pacquiao, who is a player/coach in the Philippine Basketball League, is friends with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.
But Pacquiao wasn't the only prominent boxer to attend Tuesday's NBA game. Pound-for-pound champion Floyd Mayweather Jr., who has a home in Miami, also attended the game.
The Miami Heat put a picture of the two on the scoreboard during the first quarter of the game with the caption, "Coming in 2015?" on top of it.
It gets better.
From the AP's Tim Reynolds:
Pacquiao adviser Michael Koncz, who attended the game with Pacquiao, told Yahoo Sports that Pacquiao had planned to fly to the Philippines on Tuesday via New York, but had trouble getting a flight out due to the weather, so they opted to go to the game. Koncz said they are now planning to fly to Los Angeles on Wednesday.Pacquiao says Mayweather gave him his cell number and told him it’s time for them to work this fight out themselves. Pac says he got told 1 minute before halftime that Floyd was coming over for a chat. Pacquiao said he never spoke to Floyd in person before tonight. Thank Winter Storm Juno if this fight ever happens. Pac wasn’t supposed to be here tonight — but his flight was canceled.
The boxers, whose teams have been engaged in lengthy talks for a mega-fight that would occur May 2 in Las Vegas if a deal can be reached, had a brief conversation with each other.
Koncz told Yahoo Sports he was pleased with their conversation.
"Floyd walked over and he and Manny had a nice little talk," Koncz told Yahoo Sports by telephone from the game.
Pacquiao has said he's agreed to all of Mayweather's terms and conditions, including a 60-40 purse split favoring Mayweather and agreement on drug testing. But no contract has been drawn up and Pacquiao's team has begun talks with Amir Khan in case a fight with Mayweather is unable to be made.
Pacquiao has put a Saturday deadline on Mayweather to come to an agreement or he'll turn attention to Khan.
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These two bitches need to stop pussy footing around!Otherwise by the time they do fight they'll be well and truly past their best!Comment
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Pac/Khan if FM doesn't make the fight by Saturday then.Comment
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It's all about the promoters and money men sadly so many fights over the years aren't made or made too late due to the promoters protecting their meal tickets.Comment
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Originally posted by RichC View Post
Yep the idea of wanting to be the very best and to beat the best is completely lost on many promoters, and money men. Would say that that it is lost on a good number of boxers nowadays as well.
Much easier to make money whilst talking a lot of **** and avoiding the tough fights, than to go old school by going after the best in the division.
Is why it is a breath of fresh air when you see match ups like the recent one between Eubank jr and Saunders, two guys who were willing to gamble on themselves in a 50/50 fight.I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.
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I get the whole trying to make as much money you can in a sport where it can turn on you pretty quickly but it's got ridiculous and has been like this for a long, long time.
I'd have loved to have seen a Roy Jones Jnr in his pomp vs Calzaghe plenty of others I'm sure if I have a real think about it.Comment
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Originally posted by RichC View Post I get the whole trying to make as much money you can in a sport where it can turn on you pretty quickly but it's got ridiculous and has been like this for a long, long time.
I'd have loved to have seen a Roy Jones Jnr in his pomp vs Calzaghe plenty of others I'm sure if I have a real think about it.
These fights need to happen when the fighters are at their best. It is a shame we will never know who would have won if these 2 had been able to fight each other 5 years ago."Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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Mayweather, Manny meet in private
Dan Rafael [ARCHIVE]
ESPN.com
January 28, 2015
Hours after a public face-to-face meeting and brief discussion during halftime of Tuesday night's Miami Heat-Milwaukee Bucks game in Miami, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. met privately for more than an hour to continue discussing terms for their proposed May 2 mega fight.
They met inside Pacquiao's hotel suite and "it was very pleasant and very encouraging, and we give Floyd credit for coming over," Pacquiao adviser Michael Koncz, who was present at the meeting, told ESPN.com on Wednesday. "That's the first time they ever sat eye to eye. I've met Floyd many times but he and Manny had never had a chance to meet. They talked at halftime, but this was a longer, more serious meeting. You could tell by their body language that this was very positive. It was for a good hour or more.
"It was a business meeting but it wasn't a tense business meeting. I think that's because they both have mutual respect for each other. We'll determine what will happen over the next couple of days."
The halftime meeting, which Pacquiao said was the first time he and fellow welterweight champion Mayweather Jr. met, resulted in an exchange of phone numbers and lit up social media as sports fans continued to hope this latest twist would get them closer to fighting each other.
The sides have been negotiating what will certainly be the richest fight in boxing history, but no deal has been struck yet. One of the issues is that Time Warner/HBO, which has a contract with Pacquiao, and CBS/Showtime, which has Mayweather under contract, need to hammer out terms for a joint pay-per-view telecast, which they did once before for the 2002 fight between then-heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis and former champ Mike Tyson. They have been negotiating the terms.
Koncz said that Mayweather voiced two specific broadcasting issues to Pacquiao during the hotel meeting.
"I told Floyd I would call (Pacquiao promoter) Bob (Arum of Top Rank) in the morning and I did that and discussed them with Bob and he assured us they have been worked out. I took care of it," Koncz said. "I said to Floyd, and Manny agreed, that if those are the only two broadcasting issues, we would take care of them."
Koncz declined to go into detail about the specifics of the issues because "I don't want to step on HBO's or Showtime's toes."
Koncz said Pacquiao and Mayweather also discussed other issues but that the broadcasting items were "the majority of the discussion. Floyd said, 'I want the fight to happen,' and Manny said he does too. If the fighters both want the fight to happen, who can stop it? They both said they want it to happen and we're still looking to make it happen on May 2.
"I think people are just tired of all of this. Me and Manny, and maybe Floyd, we're tired of the fans and everybody, everywhere we go continually asking us when the fight will happen. Boxing needs this fight to happen and it needs to happen in May."
Typically, a fight of this magnitude would kick off with a cross-country media tour to hype the event and get the word out. Koncz said Mayweather-Pacquiao is so big they don't need to do that.
"I don't want to go on a worldwide tour. We don't think it's necessary," he said. "Look, we could have stopped in seven cities and not gotten the kind of publicity we got from Manny and Floyd talking at halftime of the basketball game. "I think we could do one city, perhaps two, New York and Los Angeles, and this thing will go viral. It will sell itself. We don't need to go spending money on private jets to go to a lot of cities. Those tours are expensive. The money could go to the fighters instead. People want this fight and have wanted it for so long. I would have liked to see it happen three or four or five years ago, but hopefully we can get it done now. It will be the biggest fight in history."
Koncz said it was a coincidence that Pacquiao and Mayweather were both at the Heat game, Mayweather next to the Heat bench and Pacquiao directly across from him on the opposite sideline. During their brief halftime meeting Koncz said they exchanged cell phone numbers. Mayweather is a regular at Heat games. Pacquiao was in Miami to serve as a judge at the Miss Universe pageant on Sunday night.
Koncz said they had planned to travel to New York after the pageant but with a blizzard hitting the Northeast, they decided to stay in Miami for a few extra days. The unexpected meeting at the game, and later in the hotel, came during a critical time in the negotiations for the fight. Pacquiao wants any deal with Mayweather wrapped up by the end of January, the usual timeframe to promote a major May pay-per-view event.
Pacquiao (57-5-2, 38 KOs), the 36-year-old Filipino legend, and Arum have repeatedly said they have agreed to all of the terms outlined by Mayweather (47-0, 26 KOs), who turns 38 in February, during talks with CBS CEO Leslie Moonves, who has served as the go-between on behalf of Mayweather and his adviser, Al Haymon. Mayweather has said he intends to fight on May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, be it against Pacquiao or somebody else.
If the fight is not finalized, Arum told ESPN.com last week that Pacquiao's backup plan is to fight on May 30 and he identified England's Amir Khan, a former unified junior welterweight titleholder and top welterweight contender, as the leading candidate for the bout.
There has been intense interest in a Pacquiao-Mayweather showdown since 2009, but various negotiations have fallen apart over the years. However, this round of talks, according to those involved, is the closest it has been since the initial negotiations in late 2009 and early 2010 broke down because of a disagreement over how to carry out the drug testing for the bout.
According to sources involved in this round of talks, they have agreed to the drug testing protocol, among many others aspects of the fight. Should they meet, the fight, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, is expected to shatter every revenue record in boxing history.
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