DALLAS - I'm just wondering if Floyd Mayweather, Jr. actually paid the rumored $1 million USD fee to Golden Boy for negotiating the contract for the failed Mayweather, Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight?
The failed talks sort of spawned two other fights being: Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey and Shane Mosley vs. Mayweather, Jr.
While Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy seemed a little distressed publicly with the delay in Mayweather, Jr. signing the Mosley contract, I wouldn't say there is a rift between the two.
But if it's a continuation of the last minute "I'm not flying to Texas, scrap the meeting with Jerry Jones," it's something to keep your eye on if you're into such things.
But if there is a rift, who else in boxing except Don King, at age 78, to get Mayweather back on the straight and narrow path to a meaningful end to a Hall of Fame boxing career.
King doesn't need the Las Vegas backdrop for scalping tickets and making the scene. He doesn't need Mayweather's money, he can certainly deliver Mayweather, Jr. to a few press conferences and the night of the fight.
King doesn't have the baggage of these younger promoters wanting both the money and the celebrity.
I'm just saying when the situation demands a Don King, who you gonna call?
Currently, Mayweather, Jr. and Mosley, along with Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones, Jr., are making the rounds to the media masses in Miami Beach during Super Bowl week.
After I saw Pacquiao and Clottey share a golf cart across a wide street to get by a funeral procession blocking them from their Cowboys Stadium press conference last month, I believe anything is possible including Mayweather, Jr. vs. Pacquiao as early as next fall or early 2011.
I still have the picture to prove it.
http://www.examiner.com/x-11372-Dallas-Boxing-Examiner~y2010m1d23-A-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-Dallas-press-conference-with-photos
I'll take the New Orleans Saints on Sunday over Indianapolis in the Super Bowl. I'll take a team having a great year over a simply consistantly very good team. Just a hunch.
I'll be writing from Palm Springs, CA next week, as I will be spending time at the King Arthur Abraham camp as he prepares for Andre Dirrell March 6 on Showtime Network in the second leg of the Super Six Super Middleweight Tournament.
Source: examiner.com
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