By Brad Cooney, Bad Left Hook
Memo to Floyd Mayweather Jr: Be quiet, be very quiet. The second piece of advice (and this is free of charge) is to fire your entire team and replace them with people that will advise you properly. The decisions that the Mayweather camp have made thus far leading up to this train wreck have been unconscionable. With every blowhard move that team Mayweather has served, team Pacquiao has countered, and has done so brilliantly.
The very first thing that Floyd should have done early on is to get his uncle and his daddy to shut up. Both of those two individuals have done a stand up job securing the upcoming lawsuit about to get dropped on their heads. With the recent decision making on the Mayweather side of things, you could probably write a book about it, and title the book, "How to NOT make 30 million dollars and get sued in the process."
There is nothing worse than getting boxed into a corner. In this case, Mayweather's people boxed him into one. It was self inflicted by ridiculous decisions and point blank stupid comments made by the team. Who in their right mind goes on the record and accuses someone of taking steroids without any proof or basis for such allegations? Who does this to a guy like Manny Pacquiao? A man who has climbed the mountain through hard work, dedication, and faith. Pacquiao time and time again proved himself in the ring, he doesn't talk bad about people. He talks with his fists in the ring, and he maintains a humble and caring personality outside of the ring. To attack this man's character is plain ignorant.
When you are the king of the hill there are always those who want to knock you off. In this case it appears as if they are trying to knock the man off of the hill without even throwing a punch. So to add another stupid move, the Mayweather team demands that Manny undergo Olympic style blood testing leading up to the fight. This is just another way of accusing the man of taking steroids. Pacquiao countered this move and agreed to give blood before the press conference, and the day after the fight. If Pacquiao has taken steroids, it would show in his blood on the day after the fight. It's your move now Floyd, but it appears as if it's check mate time.
Mayweather has an undefeated record. Pacquiao fans are not impressed, they say that he has cherry picked his opponents and has fought guys much smaller. Their argument certainly holds water, the proof is in the pudding. Mayweather for the most part has indeed fought smaller opponents, there is no argument there. Now Floyd has a man in Manny Pacquiao that is smaller, but has straight up destroyed every big man put in front of him. Does Floyd realize that he would be dealt the first loss of his career if he fights Pacquiao? Is he afraid that if he loses to Pacquiao he would be exposed as a guy that has indeed cherry picked his opponents to an undefeated record? Perhaps so.
There is a really easy way to fix all of this. Here is my second piece of free advice to Floyd Mayweather Jr. After you fire your team and hire new people, scrap the blood test demands, and let the commission do their thing. Sign the contract that will make you up to 30 million dollars, and fight your ass off like you never fought before. If you win, you will get a lot more respect than you have now. If you lose, but lose trying, and lose in a game effort, you will still gain more respect than you have now. As of right now you are taking the PR beating of your life.
Source: 8countnews.com
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