It would be appropriate if the vacationing Floyd Mayweather was splashing in the aquamarine waters off Puerto Rico right now because the bombshell revelation from HBO Tuesday made me think of a beachy quote.
I think it was business genius/billionaire Warren Buffet who said it best when he said:
“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”
The email HBO chieftain Ross Greenburg sent to The Los Angeles Times has brought us to the low tide situation which reveals, beyond all doubt, that Mayweather and his acolytes have been swimming without their trunks.I've taken my foot off the pedal in slamming Mayweather in recent weeks but now my hand is forced. And my feet also.
Time to put the pedal to the metal.
Mayweather, who portrays himself as boxing's Emperor, has no clothes.
There can be no excuses now that veteran broadcasting exeuctive Greenburg has backed up Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum's persistent stance that those representing the Pinoy Idol made every effort to make the Super Bout for Nov. 13.
In his terse but telling statement, Greenburg concedes there will be no Manny-Floyd fight at least in this calendar year.
So now it is, to switch to tennis parlance, game, set and match in Pacman's favor.
We still don't know, although Greenburg implies that he began trying to bring the two parties together on May 2, the day after L'il Floyd scored his little victory over old man Sugar Shane Mosley, whether there was any sort of meaningful response to the Pacquiao demands.
But, know this and know it well, Greenburg would have loved to have delivered the blockbuster for his employer.
The flimsy excuses, such as the one about Mayweather fearing that his uncle-trainer Roger might be serving prison time at fight time, don't wash, either.
A fighter who calls himself “Money” wouldn't let his crazy uncle's absence stand between him and a $40 million cash bonanza.
So what are we left with?
Pacquiao now cannot be blamed for moving on to Antonio Margarito and neither can Arum.
HBO is off the hook on the basis on having made more than a good faith effort to bring the parties to contract.
Golden Boy still can't explain why Oscar de la Hoya said on national TV the fight was “very close” to being made into a reality or why Richard Schaefer was like a broken record refusing all public comment and making reference to a gag order.
Maybe Oscar should be bound and Richard should be gagged. But I don't want to get either hinky or kinky here.
There will be no comment from Mayweather puppet master Al Haymon and, by now, you can bet that Floyd's sidekick Leonard Ellerbe has had duct tape placed over his mouth.
It was Ellerbe who prodded Greenburg into public comment by questioning the prime cable network sports president's veracity in the first place.
Bad move, Laughing Lenny, bad move.
Where will Mayweather go next?
I might suggest a nudist colony where trunks are verboten and not optional.
Mayweather could not be any more exposed now if he strolled nude through Times Square at high noon.
He's the self-styled Emperor of Boxing, all right. And he's got no clothes.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
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