Early target date for Pacquiao-Mayweather is May 1
by Scott Christ on Nov 21, 2009 4:47 PM EST
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Ronnie Nathanielsz reports that Bob Arum is hearing May 1 as the date everyone wants to target for a potential super fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
Pacquiao was originally tentatively scheduled for a March 13 return. Had Pacquiao-Cotto been a great, hotly-contested fight, I'd almost guarantee we'd be seeing a rematch on that date. Arum had talked about doing just that as a next step. But since Pacquiao clearly won, the only fight to be made now is Pacquiao against Mayweather.
Richard Schaefer recently disclosed that should both Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. win on December 2, those two living legends will meet in a rematch 17 years in the making on March 13, on HBO pay-per-view.
The first weekend of May is a traditional superfight weekend, with Cinco de Mayo playing some part in that. In 2007, Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr. broke all the records with their fight, and this year Pacquiao met Ricky Hatton on that same weekend. May 1 is just logical. It gives them time for a massive promotional effort and plenty of time for what surely will be some drawn-out negotiations, too.
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Montreal is a great fight city by the way… I would expect that to be an epic event for them over there.
"Boxing is dirty," said Casamayor. " The day I’m not ready to be a dirty fighter is the day I don’t fight anymore because it will mean that I have no heart for it anymore."
yeah
My favorite fight city in North America.
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 21, 2009 4:54 PM EST up reply actions
I’m sure Dana knows to go ahead and pull back if this fight is worked out.
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 21, 2009 4:54 PM EST up reply actions
I agree
Machida and Shogun had a pretty good fight but few will pay $50 if that is the headliner again and if it goes up against this fight it’ll be dead in the water.
On topic I wonder if Pac will accept 60-40 or 65-35 or whatever it was that Mayweather was apparently proposing.
by MannyPacquiao on Nov 21, 2009 7:38 PM EST up reply actions
He won’t, and Floyd (and Richard Schaefer) know it. What they’ll do is get close to 50-50, maybe 52-48 for Mayweather.
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 21, 2009 7:46 PM EST up reply actions
+1 Zocalo.
But we both know Mayweather isn’t leaving any money on the table. Not that I’m saying Manny Pacquiao is above such “petting things” like money, but…
"Gowin on fourth and 14 will punt it away. He hangs it very high, angling it for the near sideline...HAKIM DROPS THE BALL!!! HAKIM DROPS THE BALL!! Brian Milne might've fallen on it at the ten yard line! It's the New Orleans Saints' football! Brian Milne, the most unlikely hero of them all, falls on the fumble, the muff by Hakim! There is a God after all!" -- Jim Henderson
by hakimdropstheball on Nov 21, 2009 9:48 PM EST reply actions
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