Is Floyd Mayweather Afraid of Manny Pacquiao?
Floyd Mayweather is probably the best showman in sports today. He talks a good game and, more importantly, he backs it up. He is undefeated in his decorated career with a 41-0 record with 25 coming by way of knockout. He has beaten the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, Zab Judah and Shane Mosley. However, the one thing that would elevate him into immortality would be a win against a certain someone. Like who? How about Manny Pacquiao.
Pacquiao desperately wants to fight Floyd. But from as far as I can tell, Floyd doesn't want any part of Manny. Floyd is clearly afraid of Pacquiao. Clearly. For that reason, I have lost a little bit of respect for Floyd. These two are clearly the two best fighters (regardless of weight class) in the world today, so naturally it's tough to get all the stars aligned so that we can get them into the ring together. But at least Pacquiao's camp is trying. Manny's camp tried to get Floyd in the ring this past March, but it never happened. It didn't happen because they couldn't see eye-to-eye on drug testing. However, Manny seemed to be more flexible than Floyd. That made me scratch my head.
This past week, Pacquiao's camp gave Mayweather's camp a deadline to commit to a fight this November, where Pacquiao has already agreed to extensive drug testing. Everything seemed lined for Mayweather to accept. But, there was no answer from him or his side. To me, that means he's scared. And I don't get it because they each stand to make $40M from this fight. For a guy who loves money more than he loves life, there's no apparent reason why Floyd wouldn't accept this bout. Pacquiao realizes that Floyd is afraid because he's already looking for another competitor for this November. Floyd better come up with a good excuse.
Quite frankly, he is scared. For all the talking that he does, he and his camp have yet to make a statement legitimizing their rationale for not signing on the dotted line.
First, it was the drug testing...now Manny's camp has complied totally, and nothing.
Second, as Kev stated, I've actually met Floyd and played black jack with him in Vegas, and how I know how much he enjoys having money, spending money, and letting everyone know how much bread he has to toss around...so 40 mill would be enough incentive for ME to step in the ring for that amount of bread, with no boxing experience outside of sparring with my father and grandfather in my youth (who were both promising prospects in their day).
I'm a huge boxing fan and respect Floyd's skills, but he's losing alot of respect from fans and the boxing community as a whole. Not that he should care (but we know he does), because a man is entitled to choose his battles (and it appears he is choosing them wisely by)- it's just you can't rant and rave about being the best ever when you are apparently ducking and dodging a willing opponent, who happens to be the one man who people think could take you out. Losing points man, losing points...
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