"Manny Pacquiao is the fighter and every time someone asks him if he wants to fight me, he says it is up to his promoter, he's going to take a vacation, whatever the answer is. I have yet to hear him actually say, 'yes I want to fight Mayweather.' We are the fighters and if one fighter is talking about fighting another fighter, then they should just come out and say it. Manny Pacquiao doesn't say anything directly about fighting me because he might just know it's not a fight he can win."
"He said during an interview he did leading up to his fight that he didn't think I wanted to fight him and that boxing for me was just a business and I wasn't interested in a good fight. But again, he never said during that interview that he would fight me. Why is he talking about what I won't do instead of what he wants to do? Plain and simple, it's because he knows he can't beat me under any circumstances."
"Less than an hour after his fight Saturday night the talk turns back to me. Their whole promotion was just a Mayweather sweepstakes. They know it and anyone could figure that out. Why, because my name kept coming up and I didn't even say anything. Even when he was interviewed on ESPN by Brian Kenny, he was asked about fighting me and what did he say? Not 'yes I want to fight Mayweather or bring it on.' But no! He said 'hum, ahh, well talk to my promoter."
"The world is much more intrigued by the thought of someone fighting me who can beat me. That is what everyone wants to see and the boxing world is trying to find that guy. Manny Pacquaio's people have done a good job of creating an image of him to be this unbelievable fighter and now the so-called guy to beat me. But like all the rest, he's not the one."
"There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.???
"Tell Manny Pacquiao to be his own man and stop letting everyone, including his loudmouth trainer, talk for him. I am my own boss, speak for myself and tell it like it is. If Manny Pacquiao wants to fight me, all he has to do is step up to the plate and say it himself."
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statement here is basically “I don’t want to ask him out, I want him to ask me out”. Is this high school? Is the prom next month? C’mon Floyd, you don’t need Manny to say ‘I want to fight Floyd’. You can be a real big boy and ask him to fight.
"I swear to God, I'll take this ******* ball and shove it down your ******* throat" - Serena Williams
But guess what? But guess what? Boxing don’t work like that. Guess what? Ask Al Haymon. I don’t have a boss. Guess what? But guess what? Boxing don’t work like that.
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
Floyd’s ego is so incredibly fragile that he needs Manny Pacquiao to knock on his door, kiss his mythical ring, and say, “Please, Mr. Mayweather, could we have a fight together?”
In all of this rambling nonsense, never once does he indicate that he wants to fight Manny Pacquiao. He only jabs at Pacquiao having a promoter — the coward! People want Floyd to lose. People are haters. HBO is biased now again, even though they apparently weren’t when he was doing one of his fake tearing-up spiels after he beat Marquez. Maybe he can bawl and “retire” for the fourth time instead. Boxing is hard when people keep wanting you to fight.
“But Floyd’s always calling out people!” Ah yes, whoever it is wanting some being able to come and get some. Mosley called Floyd out in January. Mosley, legitimate welterweight, as hot as he’d been in years by smashing Margarito. Mayweather remains retired. “I’m retired! That sounds nice and all, but I’m retired!”
A month later Marquez, heavy at lightweight (noticeably heavy at lightweight — let’s not pretend he isn’t), does an incredibly scripted “I want to fight Floyd Mayweather?” bit after he beats Juan Diaz. WELL IT’S ON NOW! It’s like, fuck retirement, the passion is BACK!
Why did he fight Marquez instead? Money, supposedly! Money that Marquez brings in, which Shane does not. Hey, I’m not going to argue with him. Marquez being the ace of the Mexican fighters today probably makes him a bigger star than Mosley, really, at least in terms of PPV draw. I love Shane, but he’s never been a draw. Floyd isn’t wrong about that.
But oh wait! Now that it appears Cotto-Pacquiao may well out-draw Mayweather-Marquez, it’s “of course it should have,” says Floyd, “I had no dance partner. I went to a million homes by myself.”
OH I SEE! Marquez isn’t a star. That fight was a hand-picked load of shit. You are the man. You do take tough fights. Except wait, how does that add up???
Oops, had aneurysm trying to find consistency in Floyd Mayweather logic, brb
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Nov 18, 2009 7:45 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
AND ANOTHER THING
While I’m on the topic: Floyd is complaining now that Mosley came in the ring and challenged him after the Marquez fight, but that Pacquiao didn’t get anything like that. BIASED AGAINST HIM! Can you believe such bias?!
He fails to grasp why there’s a difference: Pacquiao takes challenges and doesn’t have a mountain of questions surrounding him that he steadfastly refuses to directly address. No one is going, “Yeah well, great performance, Manny, but when are you going to fight someone your own size?”
Bad Left Hook
"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by Scott Christ on Nov 18, 2009 7:54 AM EST up reply actions
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