By Lem Satterfield, FanHouse
LAS VEGAS -- Standing at the podium before a throng of reporters at the post-fight press conference, Sugar Shane Mosley pinched his right thumb within less than an inch of his forefinger.
"It was a good fight. I was that close. I was that close to getting him. But he's a helluva fighter. He's a helluva fighter. He's a great fighter," said Mosley, his cheeks puffy from the prolonged beating he had taken from Mayweather over a 12-round, welterweight (147 pounds) unanimous decision loss.
"In that second round, Floyd was hurt. He was hurt. He was hurt real bad. I think that that's the most that he's ever been hurt before in his entire career. But it was really early in the fight, and when you have two guys who are in shape, sometimes, you get those big shots," said Mosley, who staggered Mayweather with a right hand.
"But he made adjustments and didn't make that same mistake. I didn't get a chance to catch him with a second overhand right," said Mosley. "He's a champion. He's a warrior. And he went out there and he proved that he's the best fighter tonight."
The 33-year-old Mayweather (41-0, 25 knockouts) recovered from the second-round scare to skillfully overwhelm the 38-year-old Mosley (46-6, 39 KOs) on the way to the win before 15,117 fans at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Mayweather won 119-109 on the cards of Adalaide Byrd and Dave Moretti, and Robert Hoyle had Mayweather 118-110.
FanHouse had it 119-109 for Mayweather, who out-landed Mosley, 208 to 92, in total punches, 85 to 46 in jabs and 123 to 46 in power punches.
"After I landed that big shot, then I wanted to land another big shot," said Mosley. "But there were a lot of different things that were going on in there that got me a little tight, and I just couldn't pull the trigger again like I wanted to."
Before the fight, Mosley's trainer, Naazim Richardson, likened Mayweather to an athlete who would "sprout wings, grow scales and a tale, and become a dragon."
From the third round on, Mayweather had become just that.
"That fireball hit us. When that fireball hit us, our [butts] got kind of hot in there. It was a matter of adjustments. You have to make adjustments and you have to make them exceptionally quick," said Richardson.
"Opportunities can open up on Floyd, and that's what happened when we landed that right hand," said Richardson. "But the window of opportunity closed just as fast as it opened."
So that moment was lost and never did return -- mostly because of the abilities of Mayweather to neutralize Mosley.
For when Mosley threw the right hand after that, he was often countered by perfectly-placed, perfectly-timed left hooks underneath. Similar left hands jarred Mosley from over the top. Later, lead left hands caused mists of sweat to spray into the air.
When Mosley tried to jab, often lazily, he was countered with right hands -- head-swiveling uppercuts, crosses, and later on, lead rights.
With all of those punches coming at him, Mosley often second-guessed himself and seemed hesitant to mount his own attack.
"A lot of times, when you're too aggressive with somebody like Floyd Mayweather, he can come back and get you. I didn't want to be too aggressive," said Mosley.
"That's why I was able to catch him with a shot, because I didn't just run in and just throw a punch into the wind. So I think that that's why the shot opened up for me. But Floyd made adjustments and I just didn't make any adjustments."
And then, there were the piston-like jabs that bounced Mosley's head around like a bobblehead.
"My neck is just tight, you know, from the fight," said Mosley. "Maybe, you know, from some of the jabs that he was throwing at me. But he did a great job."
By the seventh round, Mayweather had completely taken over the fight's momentum, and Mosley, his mouth agape, already had begun to lose steam.
Between the seventh and eighth, Richardson told Mosley to "show me something," adding, "You look like you're fading on me, man."
But in the eighth round, Mayweather scolded Mosley for holding on and not fighting whenever he was in trouble.
After the 10th round, Richardson threatened to end the bout if Mosley didn't start to fight back.
"I'm not going to stand here and watch you take a beating, son," Richardson said. "I know you. I know you're cut from a different cloth. Don't make me do something I don't want to do."
Mosley had fallen behind even further after the 11th round, so much so that Richardson told him that he required a knockout to win.
"This is it, man, he's got to go," said Richardson. "You've done it before. I need it now. This is what warriors do."
Richardson tried to summon the warrior in the Mosley.
That was the warrior Mosley who had beat down Antonio Margarito, hard-hitting world champion, in January of 2009, scoring a ninth-round knockout that not only dethroned Margarito as WBA king, but which came over a man who had never been knocked out.
It was the same warrior Mosley who twice defeated Oscar De La Hoya. Also Mosley the warrior who scored consecutive knockouts over former world champion Fernando Vargas.
That same warrior mentality is what caused Mosley to essentially throw down the gauntlet, so to speak, in September, when he interrupted Mayweather's in-the-ring post-fight interview with HBO's Max Kellerman following Mayweather's unanimous decision over Juan Manuel Marquez.
On Saturday night, however, that same warrior was out-gunned and out-gutted by a superior fighter, leaving Mosley to ponder what might have been.
Asked what's next in his career, Mosley said, "I don't know yet."
"I've got to go back to the drawing board and see," said Mosley. "But for now, I'm going to take me another vacation and relax and enjoy myself."
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
Monday, 3 May 2010
Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he's open to a Manny Pacquiao fight, but won't chase him -- Washington Post
By Gene Wang, The Washington Post
LAS VEGAS -- During the time leading up to his fight against Shane Mosley, undefeated six-time world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. regularly declined to talk about the possibility of a match against Manny Pacquiao.
After his lopsided victory over Mosley at the MGM Grand on Saturday night, Mayweather couldn't escape it.
The first question for Mayweather at his postfight news conference was when that much-anticipated bout would take place.
"If Manny Pacquiao wants to fight, it is not hard to find me," Mayweather said roughly an hour after punishing Mosley for the final 10 rounds of their 12-round main event and winning by unanimous decision.
Mayweather was fighting Mosley because discussions with Pacquiao's camp broke down in January amid drug testing issues. Mayweather's camp had requested Pacquiao take blood and urine tests, but the two sides couldn't agree on how close to the fight to administer them.
Pacquiao instead fought Joshua Clottey, whom he dispatched with ease on March 14 at Cowboys Stadium.
Now with Mayweather and Pacquiao having soundly beaten their most recent opponents, a match between the two best pound-for-pound fighters in the world seems imminent.
"As far as I'm concerned, Mayweather is the one to dictate," said Oscar De La Hoya, whose Golden Boy Promotions took a lead role in promoting Mayweather-Mosley. "Mayweather is the one who says when, where, who. Mayweather is the king of the world now."
Whether Mayweather-Pacquiao happens probably will depend again on if Pacquiao accepts the stringent drug testing procedures in place for Mayweather-Mosley. Both of those fighters agreed to World Anti-Doping Agency-sanctioned blood and urine tests leading up to and following the fight.
Mayweather, in fact, was a late arrival to his celebratory news conference because he said he had to give a urine sample and have blood drawn. Soon after his entrance, Mayweather praised Mosley for agreeing to rigorous drug testing in light of Mosley's admission to using performance enhancing drugs, albeit unknowingly, before his fight against De La Hoya in 2003.
"I've been an elite fighter since the '90s," Mayweather said. "Like I always say, I'm closer to 40 than I am 21, so if the fight happens, it happens. I'm not chasing no fighters."
Source: washingtonpost.com
LAS VEGAS -- During the time leading up to his fight against Shane Mosley, undefeated six-time world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. regularly declined to talk about the possibility of a match against Manny Pacquiao.
After his lopsided victory over Mosley at the MGM Grand on Saturday night, Mayweather couldn't escape it.
The first question for Mayweather at his postfight news conference was when that much-anticipated bout would take place.
"If Manny Pacquiao wants to fight, it is not hard to find me," Mayweather said roughly an hour after punishing Mosley for the final 10 rounds of their 12-round main event and winning by unanimous decision.
Mayweather was fighting Mosley because discussions with Pacquiao's camp broke down in January amid drug testing issues. Mayweather's camp had requested Pacquiao take blood and urine tests, but the two sides couldn't agree on how close to the fight to administer them.
Pacquiao instead fought Joshua Clottey, whom he dispatched with ease on March 14 at Cowboys Stadium.
Now with Mayweather and Pacquiao having soundly beaten their most recent opponents, a match between the two best pound-for-pound fighters in the world seems imminent.
"As far as I'm concerned, Mayweather is the one to dictate," said Oscar De La Hoya, whose Golden Boy Promotions took a lead role in promoting Mayweather-Mosley. "Mayweather is the one who says when, where, who. Mayweather is the king of the world now."
Whether Mayweather-Pacquiao happens probably will depend again on if Pacquiao accepts the stringent drug testing procedures in place for Mayweather-Mosley. Both of those fighters agreed to World Anti-Doping Agency-sanctioned blood and urine tests leading up to and following the fight.
Mayweather, in fact, was a late arrival to his celebratory news conference because he said he had to give a urine sample and have blood drawn. Soon after his entrance, Mayweather praised Mosley for agreeing to rigorous drug testing in light of Mosley's admission to using performance enhancing drugs, albeit unknowingly, before his fight against De La Hoya in 2003.
"I've been an elite fighter since the '90s," Mayweather said. "Like I always say, I'm closer to 40 than I am 21, so if the fight happens, it happens. I'm not chasing no fighters."
Source: washingtonpost.com
Trainer Naazim Richardson not surprised Floyd Mayweather bounced back from early trouble -- Grand Rapids Press
By David Mayo, The Grand Rapids Press
LAS VEGAS -- Naazim Richardson, Shane Mosley's colorful trainer, said there was nothing that surprised him about Floyd Mayweather’s performances in a 12-round unanimous decision welterweight victory Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
"Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. is special. He's trained by special people."
Richardson said he was “cussing Mosley out” in the post-fight dressing room for being too hard on his performance, saying that no one talks bad about his fighter “including my fighter.”
Richardson gained some notoriety in his only previous fight with Mosley for discovering Antonio Margarito’s loaded handwraps just minutes before they entered the ring in January 2009. Margarito was allowed to fight, lost on a knockout, and has remained suspended for the violation ever since.
Saturday night, Richardson attempted to plant a mental seed with referee Kenny Bayless in the pre-fight instructions, in the dressing room, that Mayweather tends to use the left elbow as a defensive weapon. Bayless said he would watch for it, but it never materialized.
Asked why Mosley was unable to capitalize on his big moment in the second round, Richardson -- who said in the days before the fight that Mayweather, at some point would respond like a dragon and Mosley would have to “step on his tail” -- had a similarly descriptive response.
"That fireball hit us,” he said. “When that fireball hit us, our (butt) got kind of hot."
Richardson also said Mosley was affected by the neck stiffness but it couldn't be cited as a factor in the outcome.
"There's only one person who wants to hear excuses -- your mom," he said. "Mom'll say 'What happened baby?' Dad'll say 'Oh, those damn kids are a mess,' but mom is always going to fall down for you. Dad'll say 'That's the third time he was fired from his job mom -- your son is a bum.' But your mom is going to love you to the bottom. That's why they're special."
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
LAS VEGAS -- Naazim Richardson, Shane Mosley's colorful trainer, said there was nothing that surprised him about Floyd Mayweather’s performances in a 12-round unanimous decision welterweight victory Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
That included how Mayweather bounced back and dominated the fight after getting wobbled
by Mosley in the second round.
by Mosley in the second round."People said 'Well, he's never been hit,’” Richardson said. “You don't get to this level if you can't handle it.
"Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. is special. He's trained by special people."Richardson gained some notoriety in his only previous fight with Mosley for discovering Antonio Margarito’s loaded handwraps just minutes before they entered the ring in January 2009. Margarito was allowed to fight, lost on a knockout, and has remained suspended for the violation ever since.
Saturday night, Richardson attempted to plant a mental seed with referee Kenny Bayless in the pre-fight instructions, in the dressing room, that Mayweather tends to use the left elbow as a defensive weapon. Bayless said he would watch for it, but it never materialized.
Asked why Mosley was unable to capitalize on his big moment in the second round, Richardson -- who said in the days before the fight that Mayweather, at some point would respond like a dragon and Mosley would have to “step on his tail” -- had a similarly descriptive response.
"That fireball hit us,” he said. “When that fireball hit us, our (butt) got kind of hot."
Richardson also said Mosley was affected by the neck stiffness but it couldn't be cited as a factor in the outcome.
"There's only one person who wants to hear excuses -- your mom," he said. "Mom'll say 'What happened baby?' Dad'll say 'Oh, those damn kids are a mess,' but mom is always going to fall down for you. Dad'll say 'That's the third time he was fired from his job mom -- your son is a bum.' But your mom is going to love you to the bottom. That's why they're special."
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
Leonard Ellerbe: Floyd Mayweather doesn't get enough credit for being 'best fighter in the world' -- Grand Rapids Press
By David Mayo, The Grand Rapids Press
LAS VEGAS -- Leonard Ellerbe, Floyd Mayweather’s closest adviser, said the general public probably wasn’t surprised by his man’s victory over Shane Mosley, but by the style of it.
“Floyd is a complete fighter. He can win any way he has to in the ring. The game plan Roger and Floyd Sr. put together was the keep the fight in the center of the ring, touch, walk, touch, walk. People probably thought this fight was going to be a track meet. But Floyd used very little movement. He stood in the middle of the ring and fought the guy.”
Ellerbe, the only original camp member who has remained with the team uninterrupted, openly questioned how anyone could doubt that Mayweather isn’t “the best fighter in the world.”
“He’s arguably the biggest guy out there in all of sports, and he doesn’t get enough credit for how he beats fighters,” Ellerbe said.
Ellerbe said Mayweather would take some time off and “not consider any other opponents” for the next several weeks.
“It was a very, very long promotion, really going back to the Pacquiao talks,” he said, referring to the discussions for a Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, which were initiated last November, seemed finalized in early December, then lingered for weeks before finally being terminated in early January.
The Mayweather-Pacquiao proposal fell apart over Mayweather’s insistence upon enhanced drug testing, and Pacquiao’s reluctance to agree to same, and any break in that impasse does not seem any more likely now than at the beginning of the year.
Mosley agreed to the same random blood and urine testing that Pacquiao refused.
“I just think that Floyd set the standard,” Ellerbe said. “He set the tone for anybody stepping up to fight him. What he did is great for sports in general, not just boxing.”
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
LAS VEGAS -- Leonard Ellerbe, Floyd Mayweather’s closest adviser, said the general public probably wasn’t surprised by his man’s victory over Shane Mosley, but by the style of it.
“I thought it was a terrific performance,” Ellerbe said Sunday. “All you’ve got to do is remember our conversation before the fight, when I said beating Shane Mosley, as I just envisioned it in my mind, that people would be surprised -- not that Floyd beat him, but how he beat him.
“Floyd is a complete fighter. He can win any way he has to in the ring. The game plan Roger and Floyd Sr. put together was the keep the fight in the center of the ring, touch, walk, touch, walk. People probably thought this fight was going to be a track meet. But Floyd used very little movement. He stood in the middle of the ring and fought the guy.”Ellerbe, the only original camp member who has remained with the team uninterrupted, openly questioned how anyone could doubt that Mayweather isn’t “the best fighter in the world.”
“He’s arguably the biggest guy out there in all of sports, and he doesn’t get enough credit for how he beats fighters,” Ellerbe said.
Ellerbe said Mayweather would take some time off and “not consider any other opponents” for the next several weeks.
“It was a very, very long promotion, really going back to the Pacquiao talks,” he said, referring to the discussions for a Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight, which were initiated last November, seemed finalized in early December, then lingered for weeks before finally being terminated in early January.
The Mayweather-Pacquiao proposal fell apart over Mayweather’s insistence upon enhanced drug testing, and Pacquiao’s reluctance to agree to same, and any break in that impasse does not seem any more likely now than at the beginning of the year.
Mosley agreed to the same random blood and urine testing that Pacquiao refused.
“I just think that Floyd set the standard,” Ellerbe said. “He set the tone for anybody stepping up to fight him. What he did is great for sports in general, not just boxing.”
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
Mother's Day: Aling Dionesia can prevent Mayweather-Pacquiao blockbuster -- Examiner
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 8:
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—There is one Pacquiao that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will never beat.
Her name is Aling Dionesia Pacquiao, better know nationally as “Pacmom” and as Mother's Day approaches next Sunday, her dutiful son is paying more than lip service to her greatest desire.
“Pacmom”has continually expressed her fervent wish that her healthy and wealthy son, the proud father of four of her beloved grandchildren, pack it in immediately.
If his mother's directive is adhered to, then there will be no Mayweather-Pacquaio bout, no Antonio Margarito-Pacquiao fight or any kind of Pacman match looming ahead.
It is the mother's Number 1 priority, and it has long been, that Megamanny quit boxing before the game takes a physical and mental toll that it has unflinchingly extracted from so many before him.
I'm not saying Pacman will retire and send promoter Bob Arum (landing here in steamy Gensan on Thursday, I am told, for the Congressional campaign final days) and others who feed at the Pacman trough into paroxysms of anguish and grief.
What I am saying is that—as Pacman told me and some Filipino reporters in separate conversations Saturday night just before he took the stage for massive rally attended by 15,000 electoral supporters—is that his Mom's publicly expressed retirement talk weighs quite heavily on his mind.
It's an unresolved issue, a chronic but unresolved issue. This evalution poured from Manny's own lips even in the midst of the political excitement surrounding he and presidential hopeful and ally Manny Villar.
“My mother has never changed on this,” Pacquiao said. “She really wants me to retire now. We will have to talk and have further discussion about this, I know.”
Pacman said he would defer his sitdown session with Pacmom until right after the May 10 national elections are finished.
But, with Aling (a term of respect) clearly playing like a broken record on the my son must quit topic, some family reckoning must be achieved before Uncle Bob can start digging in with plans for another fight, be it against Mayweather or the stronger-chinned Mickey Mouse.
The most dangerous Pacquiao is not Manny.
The most powerful Pacquiao is not Manny.
The durian fruit, as we say here in South Cotobato, does not fall from the tree.
Meaning that the son, Manny, is reverential when it comes to what his maternal unit desires.
This is no baloney, no bluff, and is far removed from blood testing quibbling.
If Pacmom has her way, Pacquiao's boxing career is already over and Joshua Clottey, noted pacfist from Ghana, has the “honor” of being his last ring victim.
Today's Mother Day shopping tip for Uncle Bob: Perhaps, wink, wink, a generous offering should be in order.
I hear they have red roses on sale across the street rom my hotel her, my friend.
Again,I'm not saying that there will be no showdown between Pacquiao and Mayweather.
But right now the biggest fight blocker is Pacmom and her opposition to her son fighting anybody should not be underrated.
I close with the insight of intrepid Pacman watcher, Hammering Hermengildo Rivera, the ubiquitous Pinoy who operates in both the boxing and political orbits.
“Her influence is very palpable and for Manny to go against the mother's wishes is like swimming against a tsunami. The maternal influence is strong in all Filipinos and Manny is no exception to this rule.”
Let's see how this plays out.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 8:
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—There is one Pacquiao that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will never beat.
Her name is Aling Dionesia Pacquiao, better know nationally as “Pacmom” and as Mother's Day approaches next Sunday, her dutiful son is paying more than lip service to her greatest desire.
“Pacmom”has continually expressed her fervent wish that her healthy and wealthy son, the proud father of four of her beloved grandchildren, pack it in immediately.
If his mother's directive is adhered to, then there will be no Mayweather-Pacquaio bout, no Antonio Margarito-Pacquiao fight or any kind of Pacman match looming ahead.
It is the mother's Number 1 priority, and it has long been, that Megamanny quit boxing before the game takes a physical and mental toll that it has unflinchingly extracted from so many before him.
I'm not saying Pacman will retire and send promoter Bob Arum (landing here in steamy Gensan on Thursday, I am told, for the Congressional campaign final days) and others who feed at the Pacman trough into paroxysms of anguish and grief.
What I am saying is that—as Pacman told me and some Filipino reporters in separate conversations Saturday night just before he took the stage for massive rally attended by 15,000 electoral supporters—is that his Mom's publicly expressed retirement talk weighs quite heavily on his mind.
It's an unresolved issue, a chronic but unresolved issue. This evalution poured from Manny's own lips even in the midst of the political excitement surrounding he and presidential hopeful and ally Manny Villar.
“My mother has never changed on this,” Pacquiao said. “She really wants me to retire now. We will have to talk and have further discussion about this, I know.”
Pacman said he would defer his sitdown session with Pacmom until right after the May 10 national elections are finished.
But, with Aling (a term of respect) clearly playing like a broken record on the my son must quit topic, some family reckoning must be achieved before Uncle Bob can start digging in with plans for another fight, be it against Mayweather or the stronger-chinned Mickey Mouse.
The most dangerous Pacquiao is not Manny.
The most powerful Pacquiao is not Manny.
The durian fruit, as we say here in South Cotobato, does not fall from the tree.
Meaning that the son, Manny, is reverential when it comes to what his maternal unit desires.
This is no baloney, no bluff, and is far removed from blood testing quibbling.
If Pacmom has her way, Pacquiao's boxing career is already over and Joshua Clottey, noted pacfist from Ghana, has the “honor” of being his last ring victim.
Today's Mother Day shopping tip for Uncle Bob: Perhaps, wink, wink, a generous offering should be in order.
I hear they have red roses on sale across the street rom my hotel her, my friend.
Again,I'm not saying that there will be no showdown between Pacquiao and Mayweather.
But right now the biggest fight blocker is Pacmom and her opposition to her son fighting anybody should not be underrated.
I close with the insight of intrepid Pacman watcher, Hammering Hermengildo Rivera, the ubiquitous Pinoy who operates in both the boxing and political orbits.
“Her influence is very palpable and for Manny to go against the mother's wishes is like swimming against a tsunami. The maternal influence is strong in all Filipinos and Manny is no exception to this rule.”
Let's see how this plays out.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
Manny Pacquiao snoozes through Shane Mosley-Floyd Mayweather bout -- Examiner
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 6:
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—If I could pick hot stocks the uncanny way I analzye big fights, I would have been in Nebraska this weekend, hanging with billionaire buddy and “Oracle Of Omaha” Warren Buffet instead of watching the Shane Mosley-Floyd Mayweather in Manny Pacquiao's steamy hometown on a Sunday afternoon.
Come on, fans, give it up. I'm better than Madame Auring on her best day. I told you guys repeatedly that Mayweather would play the nearly age 40 Mosley like a pinball machine and that's what happened for 11 out of 12 noncompetitve rounds.
I even forecast the judges' ballots, writing that there would be at least one 118-110 vote. That's exactly how Robert Hoyle tabbed it alongside the identical 119-109 scoring of Adelaide Byrd and Dave Moretti.
Time after time, I scribbled that this was a noncompetitive, highly paid workout for Mayweather, nothing more and nothing less.
Hearing mouthy Mayweather talk to Larry Merchant afterwards, I got the impression that the deluded winner felt he had staged a Gatti-Ward type ring classic rather than put on a midlly entertaining boxing clinic for most of the 36 minutes.
Only a few Sweet Scientists will put this fight tape into their collection.
Mayweather was out to make a statement and he did that.
Here's the statement as evidenced by Mosley's wham-bam right hand smash that wobbled and nearly floored L'il Floyd in round two.
The statement is this, that Mayweather's reluctance to talk turkey to fight Pacman has more to do with the real prospect, some would say the likeliehood, that his “0” would go and he would get KTFO'd by awesome finisher Pacman in a similar situation than it does with a 10 day disagreement on blood testing for steroid use.
The blood test bla, bla, bla is a cover up, always has been, for Mayweather's not wanting to risk his precious undefeated status.
Mayweather knows that Pacman brings the pain that Mosley, too slow and too reptitive, never could.
Mosley was like a lost golf ball in high weeds, unable to finish a damaged Mayweather off.
Megamanny would've torn Mayweather apart like a starving wolf ripping through grilled lamb chops.
I suppose you want to know how avidly Manny watched the big bout from Vegas.
Well, after a night of political campaigning followed by game after game of high stakes billiards at his pool parlor hereabouts, I hear that Pacman returned to his family mansion only a few hours before Money May and Sugar Shane teed off (about 11:45 am, local time).
Pacquiao canceled an appointment to sit in the Solar Sports TV studios in Manila to analyze the Vegas bout alongside Chino Trinidad and Joaquin Henson.
I've just confirmed through a reliable source, code name Halo Halo, that Pacquiao did for 12 rounds what Mosley did for 11, sleep.
And it's his terrible fear of getting put to sleep by a Pacquiao bomb or multipunch barrage that will keep Mayweather away from signing on the dotted line to fight the Pinoy Idol.
Pacquiao might put Mayweather away like the five ball going into the side pocket.
Even Stevie Wonder can see that now.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 6:
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—If I could pick hot stocks the uncanny way I analzye big fights, I would have been in Nebraska this weekend, hanging with billionaire buddy and “Oracle Of Omaha” Warren Buffet instead of watching the Shane Mosley-Floyd Mayweather in Manny Pacquiao's steamy hometown on a Sunday afternoon.
Come on, fans, give it up. I'm better than Madame Auring on her best day. I told you guys repeatedly that Mayweather would play the nearly age 40 Mosley like a pinball machine and that's what happened for 11 out of 12 noncompetitve rounds.
I even forecast the judges' ballots, writing that there would be at least one 118-110 vote. That's exactly how Robert Hoyle tabbed it alongside the identical 119-109 scoring of Adelaide Byrd and Dave Moretti.
Time after time, I scribbled that this was a noncompetitive, highly paid workout for Mayweather, nothing more and nothing less.
Hearing mouthy Mayweather talk to Larry Merchant afterwards, I got the impression that the deluded winner felt he had staged a Gatti-Ward type ring classic rather than put on a midlly entertaining boxing clinic for most of the 36 minutes.
Only a few Sweet Scientists will put this fight tape into their collection.
Mayweather was out to make a statement and he did that.
Here's the statement as evidenced by Mosley's wham-bam right hand smash that wobbled and nearly floored L'il Floyd in round two.
The statement is this, that Mayweather's reluctance to talk turkey to fight Pacman has more to do with the real prospect, some would say the likeliehood, that his “0” would go and he would get KTFO'd by awesome finisher Pacman in a similar situation than it does with a 10 day disagreement on blood testing for steroid use.
The blood test bla, bla, bla is a cover up, always has been, for Mayweather's not wanting to risk his precious undefeated status.
Mayweather knows that Pacman brings the pain that Mosley, too slow and too reptitive, never could.
Mosley was like a lost golf ball in high weeds, unable to finish a damaged Mayweather off.
Megamanny would've torn Mayweather apart like a starving wolf ripping through grilled lamb chops.
I suppose you want to know how avidly Manny watched the big bout from Vegas.
Well, after a night of political campaigning followed by game after game of high stakes billiards at his pool parlor hereabouts, I hear that Pacman returned to his family mansion only a few hours before Money May and Sugar Shane teed off (about 11:45 am, local time).
Pacquiao canceled an appointment to sit in the Solar Sports TV studios in Manila to analyze the Vegas bout alongside Chino Trinidad and Joaquin Henson.
I've just confirmed through a reliable source, code name Halo Halo, that Pacquiao did for 12 rounds what Mosley did for 11, sleep.
And it's his terrible fear of getting put to sleep by a Pacquiao bomb or multipunch barrage that will keep Mayweather away from signing on the dotted line to fight the Pinoy Idol.
Pacquiao might put Mayweather away like the five ball going into the side pocket.
Even Stevie Wonder can see that now.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
Forget peace, the world needs Mayweather-Pacquiao -- Orange County Register
By MARK WHICKER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
LAS VEGAS – Is Jimmy Carter doing anything these next few months?
He is the President who got Menachem Begin to shake hands with Anwar Sadat.
He might be the only man who can broker a treaty between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
This does not affect world peace. It's far more urgent than that.
After Mayweather turned the renowned Shane Mosley into his 41st consecutive battered, befuddled victim on Saturday, he simply must fight Pacquiao.
Nothing else makes sense or very much commerce.
Mayweather and Pacquiao should fight at least twice. They should be Celtics-Lakers, or Federer-Nadal.
There is no longer any point in identifying the third-best boxer in the world, or becoming emotionally involved in any other matchup, even a good one like Paul Williams vs. Kermit Cintron Saturday at The Home Depot Center.
The stage no longer needs setting. Only one fight remains.
The problem is that it gets more remote as it becomes more obvious. Pacquiao and Mayweather were supposed to have fought already. It fell apart because Mayweather insisted Pacquiao take blood tests. He refused, but Mosley did not. The Nevada Athletic Commission is moving toward requiring such tests.
"I paved the way," said Mayweather, who took a urine test directly after the fight and had a pending blood test, before midnight Saturday. "I just want a level playing field."
And who can argue with Boy Scouts, baptisms and drug testing?
The Pacquiao camp has said it will go along with whatever a commission dictates. It just didn't want to be subservient to Mayweather.
But it's disturbing to see how many points of disagreement the two groups can discover.
Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, has become enamored with ballparks since Pacquiao's mismatch with Joshua Clottey was witnessed by 51,000 in Cowboys Stadium. Now Miguel Cotto will fight Yuri Foreman in Yankee Stadium.
Golden Boy, which promotes Mayweather at the moment, adamantly sticks with Vegas.
The underlying problem, of course, is that each side thinks it should dictate the terms. With all due respect to Pacquiao, that goes completely out the window if Mayweather-Mosley breaks the pay-per-view record set by Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya.
"He's the best fighter on the planet," De La Hoya said, a bit somberly, because Mosley is a Golden Boy employee.
But not too somberly because now Golden Boy's interests are entwined with Mayweather's.
"He's the king of the world after this one. He can dictate who, when, where and how much when it comes to the next fight," De La Hoya said.
Pacquiao always has maintained that he doesn't need Mayweather to feel fulfilled. Mayweather says ditto.
It's almost as if Pacquiao and Mayweather have so little respect for each other that the mechanics of a big fight today — the nationwide media tour, the heavy pre-fight HBO presence — get in the way.
Mayweather says he only does this to feed his family. Pacquiao has said he's maybe two bouts away from retirement.
Some boxing insiders said all along that Mayweather would defuse Pacquiao's headlong rushes and win convincingly but not lyrically. But that was before Mayweather stood on level ground with Mosley and carried the fight.
"It was time to follow the game plan," he said. "Every time he put up a jab I gave him a full counter. Sometimes he was getting hit before he pulled his jab back. And I was going to break him down with the left hook."
That happened after Mosley stunned Mayweather with a second-round right hand.
"It's not the worst I've been hurt," Mayweather said. "Chop Chop Corley hit me harder. I'm a fighter. This is part of my job. As soon as I got hit I started thinking about my family. I told myself to hold up, relax. I did, and then I came out and won the third round.
"I told myself the fight was only 1-1. After a while Mosley was just in there to survive.
"Ain't cool at all to get hit like that. I'm going to go back and watch the tape and see how I made a mistake. I'm not in this game to take punishment. Other fighters get all excited about power and speed. What makes a fighter is timing and being smart."
Mosley was hit with 202 of Mayweather's punches. Mayweather dodged all but 92 of Mosley's. In power punches, Mayweather shot 46 percent.
Mosley said his neck became stiff, primarily from catching Mayweather's jabs.
"I'm not listening to anybody talk bad about my fighter," trainer Naazim Richardson told him. "Including you."
The one word Mosley didn't utter was "rematch."
He and the rest of boxing are inclined to clear the floor, find the reluctant partners, and demand a spotlight dance.
Source: ocregister.com
LAS VEGAS – Is Jimmy Carter doing anything these next few months?
He is the President who got Menachem Begin to shake hands with Anwar Sadat.
He might be the only man who can broker a treaty between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
This does not affect world peace. It's far more urgent than that.
After Mayweather turned the renowned Shane Mosley into his 41st consecutive battered, befuddled victim on Saturday, he simply must fight Pacquiao.
Nothing else makes sense or very much commerce.
Mayweather and Pacquiao should fight at least twice. They should be Celtics-Lakers, or Federer-Nadal.
There is no longer any point in identifying the third-best boxer in the world, or becoming emotionally involved in any other matchup, even a good one like Paul Williams vs. Kermit Cintron Saturday at The Home Depot Center.
The stage no longer needs setting. Only one fight remains.
The problem is that it gets more remote as it becomes more obvious. Pacquiao and Mayweather were supposed to have fought already. It fell apart because Mayweather insisted Pacquiao take blood tests. He refused, but Mosley did not. The Nevada Athletic Commission is moving toward requiring such tests.
"I paved the way," said Mayweather, who took a urine test directly after the fight and had a pending blood test, before midnight Saturday. "I just want a level playing field."
And who can argue with Boy Scouts, baptisms and drug testing?
The Pacquiao camp has said it will go along with whatever a commission dictates. It just didn't want to be subservient to Mayweather.
But it's disturbing to see how many points of disagreement the two groups can discover.
Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, has become enamored with ballparks since Pacquiao's mismatch with Joshua Clottey was witnessed by 51,000 in Cowboys Stadium. Now Miguel Cotto will fight Yuri Foreman in Yankee Stadium.
Golden Boy, which promotes Mayweather at the moment, adamantly sticks with Vegas.
The underlying problem, of course, is that each side thinks it should dictate the terms. With all due respect to Pacquiao, that goes completely out the window if Mayweather-Mosley breaks the pay-per-view record set by Mayweather-Oscar De La Hoya.
"He's the best fighter on the planet," De La Hoya said, a bit somberly, because Mosley is a Golden Boy employee.
But not too somberly because now Golden Boy's interests are entwined with Mayweather's.
"He's the king of the world after this one. He can dictate who, when, where and how much when it comes to the next fight," De La Hoya said.
Pacquiao always has maintained that he doesn't need Mayweather to feel fulfilled. Mayweather says ditto.
It's almost as if Pacquiao and Mayweather have so little respect for each other that the mechanics of a big fight today — the nationwide media tour, the heavy pre-fight HBO presence — get in the way.
Mayweather says he only does this to feed his family. Pacquiao has said he's maybe two bouts away from retirement.
Some boxing insiders said all along that Mayweather would defuse Pacquiao's headlong rushes and win convincingly but not lyrically. But that was before Mayweather stood on level ground with Mosley and carried the fight.
"It was time to follow the game plan," he said. "Every time he put up a jab I gave him a full counter. Sometimes he was getting hit before he pulled his jab back. And I was going to break him down with the left hook."
That happened after Mosley stunned Mayweather with a second-round right hand.
"It's not the worst I've been hurt," Mayweather said. "Chop Chop Corley hit me harder. I'm a fighter. This is part of my job. As soon as I got hit I started thinking about my family. I told myself to hold up, relax. I did, and then I came out and won the third round.
"I told myself the fight was only 1-1. After a while Mosley was just in there to survive.
"Ain't cool at all to get hit like that. I'm going to go back and watch the tape and see how I made a mistake. I'm not in this game to take punishment. Other fighters get all excited about power and speed. What makes a fighter is timing and being smart."
Mosley was hit with 202 of Mayweather's punches. Mayweather dodged all but 92 of Mosley's. In power punches, Mayweather shot 46 percent.
Mosley said his neck became stiff, primarily from catching Mayweather's jabs.
"I'm not listening to anybody talk bad about my fighter," trainer Naazim Richardson told him. "Including you."
The one word Mosley didn't utter was "rematch."
He and the rest of boxing are inclined to clear the floor, find the reluctant partners, and demand a spotlight dance.
Source: ocregister.com
Mayweather-Pacquiao not automatic as impasse continues over random blood, urine testing -- Grand Rapids Press
By David Mayo, The Grand Rapids Press
LAS VEGAS -- Anyone who believes the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight is automatic hasn’t been paying attention -- and it doesn’t appear their freeze is thawing anytime soon.
Late Saturday night, Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, said in a telephone interview with The Press that as long as Mayweather’s stance on random drug testing remains in place, there is “nothing to talk about” pertaining a possible Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.
And Mayweather insisted that if Pacquiao doesn’t submit to the same random blood and urine testing that Shane Mosley did before losing to Mayweather Saturday night, then the fight won’t happen.
That was the same impasse that stalled Mayweather-Pacquiao talks last winter, and which seems just as daunting in any resumption of negotiations.
“I want to give fans a pleasing fight,” Mayweather said. “If they want to see me and Pacquiao, I want to give them that. But we must be on an even playing field in the sport of boxing. Too many fighters are dying, too many families are getting hurt, in the sport of boxing.”
Arum said there has been no discussion about Pacquiao’s next opponent while the Filipino focuses on a run for a congressional seat in his native country.
“The election is a week from Monday, then we'll figure out who he's going to fight,” Arum said.
Asked if that might be Mayweather if the drug-testing demand remains in place, Arum responded curtly.
“No,” he said.
Mayweather said if the fight ever does materialize, he expects the same courage that got him through a second-round trouble spot against Mosley to be on display against Pacquiao.
"I'm not saying that Manny Pacquiao's not a good fighter,” he said. “He's a good fighter. But I've got the will to win under the lights."
He also said he’s “not chasing any fighter” and that it’s just as likely he could move up to middleweight -- the 160-pound division -- and challenge new champion Sergio Martinez, who dominated Kelly Pavlik to take the title last month.
"I saw him fight,” Mayweather said. “I thought about that. It's possible, it's possible. We don't know. I saw him fight Kelly Pavlik and I looked at him, I caught a little glimpse of it.”
Pressed on the possibility of fighting Martinez, Mayweather said he’s really more interested in some time off and watching the NBA playoffs.
"I just mean it'd be good to go up and win the middleweight title,” he said.
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
LAS VEGAS -- Anyone who believes the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight is automatic hasn’t been paying attention -- and it doesn’t appear their freeze is thawing anytime soon.
Late Saturday night, Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, said in a telephone interview with The Press that as long as Mayweather’s stance on random drug testing remains in place, there is “nothing to talk about” pertaining a possible Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.
And Mayweather insisted that if Pacquiao doesn’t submit to the same random blood and urine testing that Shane Mosley did before losing to Mayweather Saturday night, then the fight won’t happen.
That was the same impasse that stalled Mayweather-Pacquiao talks last winter, and which seems just as daunting in any resumption of negotiations.
“I want to give fans a pleasing fight,” Mayweather said. “If they want to see me and Pacquiao, I want to give them that. But we must be on an even playing field in the sport of boxing. Too many fighters are dying, too many families are getting hurt, in the sport of boxing.”
Arum said there has been no discussion about Pacquiao’s next opponent while the Filipino focuses on a run for a congressional seat in his native country.
“The election is a week from Monday, then we'll figure out who he's going to fight,” Arum said.
Asked if that might be Mayweather if the drug-testing demand remains in place, Arum responded curtly.
“No,” he said.
Mayweather said if the fight ever does materialize, he expects the same courage that got him through a second-round trouble spot against Mosley to be on display against Pacquiao.
"I'm not saying that Manny Pacquiao's not a good fighter,” he said. “He's a good fighter. But I've got the will to win under the lights."
He also said he’s “not chasing any fighter” and that it’s just as likely he could move up to middleweight -- the 160-pound division -- and challenge new champion Sergio Martinez, who dominated Kelly Pavlik to take the title last month.
"I saw him fight,” Mayweather said. “I thought about that. It's possible, it's possible. We don't know. I saw him fight Kelly Pavlik and I looked at him, I caught a little glimpse of it.”
Pressed on the possibility of fighting Martinez, Mayweather said he’s really more interested in some time off and watching the NBA playoffs.
"I just mean it'd be good to go up and win the middleweight title,” he said.
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
Shane Mosley: Adjustments the difference after coming 'that close' to getting Floyd Mayweather -- Grand Rapids Press
By David Mayo, The Grand Rapids Press
LAS VEGAS -- Shane Mosley huffed to the finish, face puffy from Floyd Mayweather’s punches. He left with a $7 million paycheck, a 12-round decision loss, and one moment that will go down in welterweight lore.
“That close -- that close -- to getting him,” Mosley said.
That moment in the second round, when Mosley caught Mayweather pulling straight back as he came forward with a right hand, is the one he might rue the rest of his life after he proved unable to capitalize and got dominated for the remainder of a bout scored 119-109 twice, and 118-110 -- that is, 11-1 and 10-2 in rounds, respectively.
"When you have two guys that are in shape, sometimes you get those big shots, and they come from a big puncher like myself, and he makes adjustments,” Mosley said. “And he didn't make that same mistake, and I didn't get a chance to catch him with that second overhand right.
"He was hurt. He was hurt. He was hurt real bad. I think that's the most he's ever been hurt before, in his entire career. But he's a champion, he's a warrior, and he went out and there and proved that he was the best fighter tonight."
Mosley acknowledged that the fight came down to who changed strategy in mid-fight better.
Mayweather responded to the trouble spot by pressing up his offense immediately in the third round -- even his rarely humbled father admitted he wouldn’t have done it, yet it proved the right decision -- and Mosley never figured out how to get inside a jab that set up copious right hands and enhanced the Grand Rapids native’s legendary defensive skill.
"He made adjustments and I just didn't make the adjustments."
Mosley said he might have gotten too anxious after seeing Mayweather in trouble and fell into a puncher’s mode.
"When I landed that big shot, maybe I got gung-ho and wanted to land another big shot,” he said. “There were a lot of things that were going on in the fight that got me a little tight and I just couldn't pull the trigger."
At 38, Mosley declined to address his future in the sport, saying he just wanted to go home to California and reassess.
He also said he had some tightness in his neck that needs to heal.
"Maybe from some of the jabs he was throwing at me,” he said.
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
LAS VEGAS -- Shane Mosley huffed to the finish, face puffy from Floyd Mayweather’s punches. He left with a $7 million paycheck, a 12-round decision loss, and one moment that will go down in welterweight lore.
“That close -- that close -- to getting him,” Mosley said.
That moment in the second round, when Mosley caught Mayweather pulling straight back as he came forward with a right hand, is the one he might rue the rest of his life after he proved unable to capitalize and got dominated for the remainder of a bout scored 119-109 twice, and 118-110 -- that is, 11-1 and 10-2 in rounds, respectively.
"When you have two guys that are in shape, sometimes you get those big shots, and they come from a big puncher like myself, and he makes adjustments,” Mosley said. “And he didn't make that same mistake, and I didn't get a chance to catch him with that second overhand right.
"He was hurt. He was hurt. He was hurt real bad. I think that's the most he's ever been hurt before, in his entire career. But he's a champion, he's a warrior, and he went out and there and proved that he was the best fighter tonight."
Mosley acknowledged that the fight came down to who changed strategy in mid-fight better.
Mayweather responded to the trouble spot by pressing up his offense immediately in the third round -- even his rarely humbled father admitted he wouldn’t have done it, yet it proved the right decision -- and Mosley never figured out how to get inside a jab that set up copious right hands and enhanced the Grand Rapids native’s legendary defensive skill.
"He made adjustments and I just didn't make the adjustments."
Mosley said he might have gotten too anxious after seeing Mayweather in trouble and fell into a puncher’s mode.
"When I landed that big shot, maybe I got gung-ho and wanted to land another big shot,” he said. “There were a lot of things that were going on in the fight that got me a little tight and I just couldn't pull the trigger."
At 38, Mosley declined to address his future in the sport, saying he just wanted to go home to California and reassess.
He also said he had some tightness in his neck that needs to heal.
"Maybe from some of the jabs he was throwing at me,” he said.
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
Floyd Mayweather: I don't need Manny Pacquiao to make $20 or $30 million per fight -- Grand Rapids Press
By David Mayo, The Grand Rapids Press
LAS VEGAS -- The question of what Floyd Mayweather does next if he had lost Saturday’s weleterweight fight to Shane Mosley seemed pretty clear, a product of the first rematch clause in any fight contract during his brilliant career.
What happens next after he improved to 41-0 with a unanimous decision victory over Mosley seems much murkier.
Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao is the fight the public wants. But those two, after agreeing to all the usual sticking points -- including financial terms -- reached an impasse on drug testing.
The assumption that the Mayweather-Mosley winner would fight Pacquiao next is based on a thaw in those frozen talks, which is far from certain.
“This is not bragging or boasting,” Mayweather said, “but with or without Pacquiao, Floyd is going to be able to go out and make $20 million or $30 million a night. With or without him, I’m still able to do that.”
Mayweather’s gross purse was $22.5 million for fighting Mosley, and he was to receive a percentage of all pay-per-view revenues after 1.2 million domestic buys.
If the fight goes much over that threshold, it could present an even bigger hurdle to a resumption in Mayweather-Pacquiao talks than the Olympic-style random drug testing the Grand Rapids native sought in failed negotiations last winter.
When the Mayweather proposal fell through, Pacquiao fought Joshua Clottey instead, in a fight that produced about 700,000 domestic buys.
If Mayweather-Mosley far exceeds that, which is a virtual certainty, Mayweather already has said the bulk of the financial split would have to go his way before he would agree to fight Pacquiao.
“I don’t think about no Pacquiao,” Mayweather said. “I’m a boss, I only talk to bosses. He’s got to do numbers like I’m doing. What did him and (Juan Manuel) Marquez do, 300,000, 400,000? Congratulations. Got to step his game up. Got to step his game up. Got to step his pay-per-view numbers up. I average 1.3 million, with ease.”
Mayweather-Marquez did 1.086 million domestic pay-per-view buys, more than 2 1/2 times what Pacquiao-Marquez II did in 2008.
Mayweather suggested his next move might be a worldwide tour against lesser opponents.
“I’m Floyd Mayweather, they come to see me, regardless,” he said. “I could fight three months, fight a fight a month, and make $30 million, just like that. I could make $10 million a fight. This world is huge.”
Another shot at Pacquiao
Mayweather probably would have earned recognition as Fighter of the Decade if not for one fight in the final two years of the decade.
E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
LAS VEGAS -- The question of what Floyd Mayweather does next if he had lost Saturday’s weleterweight fight to Shane Mosley seemed pretty clear, a product of the first rematch clause in any fight contract during his brilliant career.
What happens next after he improved to 41-0 with a unanimous decision victory over Mosley seems much murkier.
Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao is the fight the public wants. But those two, after agreeing to all the usual sticking points -- including financial terms -- reached an impasse on drug testing.
The assumption that the Mayweather-Mosley winner would fight Pacquiao next is based on a thaw in those frozen talks, which is far from certain.
“This is not bragging or boasting,” Mayweather said, “but with or without Pacquiao, Floyd is going to be able to go out and make $20 million or $30 million a night. With or without him, I’m still able to do that.”
Mayweather’s gross purse was $22.5 million for fighting Mosley, and he was to receive a percentage of all pay-per-view revenues after 1.2 million domestic buys.
If the fight goes much over that threshold, it could present an even bigger hurdle to a resumption in Mayweather-Pacquiao talks than the Olympic-style random drug testing the Grand Rapids native sought in failed negotiations last winter.
When the Mayweather proposal fell through, Pacquiao fought Joshua Clottey instead, in a fight that produced about 700,000 domestic buys.
If Mayweather-Mosley far exceeds that, which is a virtual certainty, Mayweather already has said the bulk of the financial split would have to go his way before he would agree to fight Pacquiao.
“I don’t think about no Pacquiao,” Mayweather said. “I’m a boss, I only talk to bosses. He’s got to do numbers like I’m doing. What did him and (Juan Manuel) Marquez do, 300,000, 400,000? Congratulations. Got to step his game up. Got to step his game up. Got to step his pay-per-view numbers up. I average 1.3 million, with ease.”
Mayweather-Marquez did 1.086 million domestic pay-per-view buys, more than 2 1/2 times what Pacquiao-Marquez II did in 2008.
Mayweather suggested his next move might be a worldwide tour against lesser opponents.
“I’m Floyd Mayweather, they come to see me, regardless,” he said. “I could fight three months, fight a fight a month, and make $30 million, just like that. I could make $10 million a fight. This world is huge.”
Another shot at Pacquiao
Mayweather probably would have earned recognition as Fighter of the Decade if not for one fight in the final two years of the decade.That Pacquiao earned that honor instead clearly rankled him.
“They say Pooch
-e-yow got Fighter of the Decade, right?” he said, intentionally mispronouncing his rival’s name. “Well, how did Pooch-e-yow get Fighter of the Decade when he got outboxed by Erik Morales and had a knockdown, drag-out with Marquez? I just don’t understand this. And all these fighters have been cakewalks for me. They’ve all been cakewalks for me. I just don’t understand this. Do you?”
-e-yow got Fighter of the Decade, right?” he said, intentionally mispronouncing his rival’s name. “Well, how did Pooch-e-yow get Fighter of the Decade when he got outboxed by Erik Morales and had a knockdown, drag-out with Marquez? I just don’t understand this. And all these fighters have been cakewalks for me. They’ve all been cakewalks for me. I just don’t understand this. Do you?”E-mail David Mayo: dmayo@grpress.com and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/David_Mayo
Source: mlive.com
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