Should no one say anything about the way he and his team are apparently just lying, and rather shamefully so?

It isn’t terribly different from any other cult of personality. One true believer finally gets fed up and leaves, and those who remain denounce him as an apostate. Then someone else gets fed up and leaves, and those who remain also denounce him as an apostate. The numbers get smaller and smaller, but those remain in that number become more and more radical in their levels of devotion.

(Yes I am aware that Pacquiao also has a cult of personality in certain quarters.)

You succinctly said what I attempting to express better.

I particularly have problems with journalist calling athletes out their names. I always wonder what would they when they’re directly in their face. Would they say, you’re a chicken, you’re yellow, you’re a punk because Ross Greenburg refuted statements coming from your camp?

Just because Ross Greenburg came out in support of Arum doesn’t mean he’s telling the truth.

Greenburg deviating from HBO’s standard “no comment” says something pretty significant about what’s going on here. Greenburg is not agreeing with Arum so much as he’s refuting the Mayweather camp’s transparent claims, which have become even worse now that Ross Greenburg has called them out as liars.

The other thing I loathe is this constant sense of entitlement that fans have

I hear you. I don’t think Mayweather “owes” me anything, per se. But his team is blatantly trying to lie and sell people a lie. Nobody likes being lied to. That’s the far bigger issue here. Mayweather’s team is full of crap.

Imagine Floyd making the fight and then holding a press conference to announce that every fan has to buy it because they owe him for the years he’s put into boxing. How ridiculous does that sound?

Not nearly as ridiculous as Mayweather’s camp sounds right now.

ut you have to wonder why he even unretired if he wasn’t going to fight Pacquiao

He badly needed the money with the IRS on his back. And he’s made good money fighting Marquez and Mosley. “Good money” is a vast understatement, even. Of course coming back to make money and passing up a fight that guarantees a metric shit ton of it is a bit weird.

I can’t get my head around the blatant bias of the editors

Explain? This seems like an unqualified insult, to be honest.

I think everybody has jumped the gun on this site.

So, to summarize:

Everybody else on here is wrong, and you’re right, the lone voice of sanity in an otherwise friendless and irrational world, right?

Isn’t this the same way Floyd sees the world?

There is more to this but Iole and a lot of you are ready to write off Mayweather’s legacy.

There were talks, and they broke down. Floyd’s pet monkeys then felt fit to spout off without consultaion from the organ grinder, and made themselves look dishonest, deceitful and downright unreliable as narrators of the facts.

Whether or not Greenburg is enough for you, he certainly is enough for me. If he says there were talks, just like that paragon of virtue De La Hoya did recently before being coerced into backtracking, then I believe there were talks. To believe anyhting else smacks of naivete. You seem like a reasonably intelligent person, and therefore I’m pretty surprised that you are willing to believe the Floyd-Party party-line as readily as you do.

Is Greenburg, a man with no vested interest in anything other than the fight taking place, lying about having had negotiations with both parties? Is he lying about those talks taking place for weeks on end? And if so, why? These are the questions that rationality demands we ask, and yet you attack Kevin Iole for expressing an opinion that he qualifies within the article, while expecting that these questions and their ramifications should not be explored?

a lot of you are ready to write of Mayweather’s legacy.

Mayweather’s legacy has been discussed pretty well by two other posters in this thread. To save you having to sift through it, I’ll show you the salient points here:

El Destruyo

And Floyd’s much-vaunted legacy might come down to this PR battle too, or to be more exact, to this question: How honestly does Floyd come by his unblemished record? Do we remember the fights he took, or is Pacquiao the final weight on the scale that makes us think more of the many, many fights he didn’t?

Brickhaus

It’s just hard to say how history will look at it. As far as I can think of, there’s never been a bigger fight that needed to happen that hasn’t happen, or at least not since desegregation. Considering how much bigger this would be than anything else Floyd has ever done, the fight not happening could end up being what comes to define him. When they write his obituary, there will probably be a paragraph about how this didn’t happen.

But I think it will be remembered, and will be a big part of his legacy, whether or not the fight happens. He’ll still be remembered as a 5 weight class titlist who was one of the best junior lightweights of all time. But I think a lot of people, especially non-fans, will remember him as much for what he hasn’t done as what he has.

I like to think this site is less biased than most of the other ones out there, but it IS an editorial site. I don’t try to be inflammatory like some prominent boxing writers, but I’m also not a reporter. I see a news story, then I put my spin on it. Scott does the same. We both have our guys we like and dislike, but we try not to let it come through too much. But if we’re reporting what’s out there, then you’ll see a lot more of this, because 90% of the media has completely and unequivocally taken Pacquiao’s side on this one (as opposed to this site, where we had a big article saying that people should blame both Mayweather and Pacquiao equally).

;)

I don’t think I will either, to be honest. I try to be objective, especially with this particular debate, but irrationality really annoys me, especially when it’s presented as the voice of reason in an otherwise dark and horrible world.