Mediator weighs in with corrections on Mayweather-Pacquiao ordeal
by Scott Christ on Jan 7, 2010 5:39 PM EST
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PrintGolden Boy Promotions sent out a press release with "corrections" from Mayweather-Pacquiao mediator Daniel Weinstein. The full release is as follows:
Judge Daniel Weinstein today issued an order to correct the false record that has been created by the recent statements from Top Rank and Manny Pacquiao's representatives concerning what occurred at the mediation. The full text of the Judge's statement is as follows:
Mediator's Corrective Order Re: Mayweather-Pacquiao MediationThe Mediator finds:
1. Various articles have appeared in the press purporting to characterize the substance and outcome of the Mayweather-Pacquiao mediation and the negotiations between the parties. Many of the reports are incorrect.
2. The mediation was a confidential proceeding. Any comments to the press or public by participants in the mediation purporting to report the substance or details of the mediation are violations of the strict confidentiality to which the parties and their representatives agreed and which they authorized the Mediator to enforce.
3. The parties and their representatives authorized that, if misinformation was disclosed to the press by either side, the Mediator would correct any erroneous information.
The Mediator corrects the erroneous reports to the press as follows:
a. Both parties participated in the mediation in good faith. Both parties participated in many hours of negotiation, with a number of proposals issued by each side and carefully considered by the parties and their representatives.
b. The Mediator himself did not formulate, recommend or issue a Mediator's Proposal. The Mediator did not make an evaluation or finding that any one of the many proposals considered by the parties was the correct protocol.
c. Any attempt to characterize the mediation process as an acceptance or rejection by any of the parties of a mediator's or an arbiter's proposal or of any specific proposal is false.
d. In the end, the parties could not agree on a testing protocol acceptable to all.
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Arum is an ass
Seems like the truth just doesn’t come out of Bob Arum’s mouth….maybe because he wasn’t supposed to be talking about it in the first place.
All Arum has said is "the fight's off"
Everything else has come from gleaning things off of sources, etc. Do those sources probably originate with Top Rank? Sure, but some of them also originate with Koncz and Ellerbe.
This is just a CYA memo from the mediator. As a corporate attorney, let me break this down:
1) Of course many of the reports are incorrect. There are a hundred different rumors being floated around.
2) A reminder to the people who have been talking that they shouldn’t be talking.
3) OK, so the mediator needs to correct ANY erroneous information.
So, what erroneous information are they correcting???
a) Both parties negotiated in good faith. There was one report out there that Mayweather’s camp didn’t even try. Fine. It’s a VERY high standard to be found to have acted not in good faith. Basically, don’t act like a total jackass and you’re fine.
b) The mediator didn’t make a proposal. Fine. I haven’t seen a report that they did, but if there is one saying they did, of course the mediator is going to cover its own ass and tell the world it didn’t actually do something others are claiming it did.
c) Nobody rejected the mediator’s proposal. Because there was no mediator proposal. Once again, I haven’t seen much, if anything, saying people rejected the mediator’s proposal. That’s not how mediation works anyway. A mediator facilitates. A mediator generally doesn’t propose his or her own solution and then try to force the parties to accept it. Both sides made their pitches, and nobody accepted either one.
d) We know this.
So basically, this “correction” doesn’t really correct anything that isn’t the widely reported consensus. Other than a few articles that imply that Mayweather negotiated in bad faith, it really doesn’t change much. If the widely reported proposals were wrong, then the mediator would be forced to correct those as well. The fact that the mediator didn’t correct them implicitly tells me that the consensus is true:
- Mayweather pretty much stuck to his guns – random drug testing through the fight
- Pacquaio pretty much stuck to his guns – blood test at the press conference and after the fight, one blood test, but not close to the fight
All of this is about the same as they walked to the table with, and is what they left the table with as well.
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by Brickhaus on Jan 7, 2010 6:29 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Nice breakdown...
Unfortunately, this release will just become more fodder for the many subjectivists in the boxing community.
by MCM on Jan 7, 2010 6:46 PM EST up reply actions
I was sort of hoping you or one of the other BLH legal eagles would jump in and explain what a non-statement of any particular goddamn thing this press release is.
It’s barely even a CYA memo, honsetly. How do you cover an ass with a postage stamp? I mean, I haven’t heard anything about Arum threatening to sue over bad faith negotiations. I’ve only heard that Pacquiao is threatening to sue for defamation.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
And that's why arum is a piece of shit
"I guess I can’t do anything if you’re just irrational, but to point it out and move on."
- fundamentallysound
by J Theory on Jan 7, 2010 6:12 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Nope, never seen a CYA memo before
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