Mayweather talking with Don King in Florida
by Scott Christ on Aug 1, 2010 7:46 PM EDT
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Tim Smith of the New York Daily News reports that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is currently in Florida "hanging out" with promoter Don King, and King believes there's a chance the two could work together.
"We've been talking about his future and where he wants to go and what he wants to do. Right now he's not sure what he wants to do. ... For him it's all a matter of the disrespect that he's feeling and them not listening to him," King said. "It's all about pride and dignity. I understand him completely because we share a common background as rising from the ghetto. He wants his dignity, his respect and his pride to remain intact and he wants to get paid. That's where I come in. I'm the mix master."
Currently, Mayweather is under employ to no one in boxing. He has worked with Golden Boy Promotions for his last four bouts, and Al Haymon has served as an adviser, as well. But he has no manager, has no official promoter, and operates under a "Mayweather Promotions" banner that is, for all intents and purposes, mostly irrelevant, since it's his company and really doesn't do anything without Mayweather on the card anyway.
I would be skeptical of Mayweather -- who has flirted with hiring King in the past -- actually signing on to be a Don King-promoted fighter in a traditional sense. But the way King is making it sound, Mayweather is unhappy with someone who is representing him right now, whether it be Golden Boy, Haymon, or both. King may be an incredibly far cry from the promoter he was in his most successful days, but he still has name recognition, and there's not a lot of work to put in if you're talking about Floyd Mayweather. Mayweather could simply be considering having King and the DKP people help in negotiations.
Of course, this is just what it is for the time being, which is King saying that they might work together sometime. There's nothing concrete about it or anything like that. King says he's confident that he can work with Bob Arum and Top Rank to make a fight between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, while also stroking Mayweather's ego and assuring him that he doesn't need Pacquiao.
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king smells the money
but if king is the missing link here… more power to him. itd be great if king was the man who makes this fight happen
"After this, I'm gonna kick Bob Arum's ass."
-George Lopez
Well if Floyd doesn’t want to fight anyone, he’s found the perfect promoter to accomplish that.
by taco pal on Aug 1, 2010 8:07 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Oh great sbnation has spam
"I guess I can’t do anything if you’re just irrational, but to point it out and move on."
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by J Theory on Aug 1, 2010 8:34 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Bwahahahahahahaha.
Floyd might be pulling a stunt to get Golden Boy’s attention, but just because this doesn’t make any sense doesn’t mean it isn’t a classic Mayweather move. Nothing he would do could really surprise me at this point.
(Except, you know, fighting Pacquiao, God forbid.)
who does King even promote now? the only fighter I can think of is joseph agbeko.
"Mug an old lady, and if you have the right connections the WBO will rank you seventh." -Steve Farhood
Cloud
Spinks, Valuev, Briggs umm…. maybe Miguel Acosta, and some of those guys he copromotes
Basically, if Spinks is probably your #4 figher and can’t make tv…..
by journeyintosound on Aug 2, 2010 12:31 AM EDT up reply actions
He actually has a pretty big stable
Of very inactive fighters.
Devon Alexander
Elio Rojas
Corey Spinks
Guillermo Jones
Joseph Agbeko
Ricardo Mayorga
Daniel Santos
Luis Collazo
Paulus Moses
Nicolai Valuev (co-promote)
Andrew Golota
Ray Austin
Sergei Lyakhovich
Kali Meehan
Wayne Braithwaite
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
I just hope that King gets in Mayweather’s ear and urges him to take this fight soon. Each day that goes by is another day of bad press for Mayweather until he takes the fight with Pacquaio. Mayweather needs to forget about the “Fighting Once A Year” crap, the “I cant make too much money this year because of taxes and the IRS” . “Im working with my charity”. None of those reason’s are good excuses. They’re not acceptable. Especially when Pacquaio is a Congressman in his country and he still makes time to fight.
I’ve been a Mayweather fan for a while now, but Im not a fan boy. I call it like I see it.
The worse thing that can happen for Mayweather’s legacy is if Pacquaio loses to Margarito.
Reason being, what does Mayweather do next? Fight Margarito? If he does then people are going to be like,: you’re willing to fight Margarito but you ducked Pacqauio.
Or if he does want a fight with Pacqauio after a loss to Margarito its gonna look like he was waiting for Pacqauio’s momentum of winning came to an end and after he took some punishment from Margarito to capitalize off of it.
People will always say that Mayweather had a chance to fight Pacquaio while he was on top and didn’t do it.
Mayweather had better hope that Pacquaio comes out of this fight victorious and jump on the next opportunity that arises.
Because that's what Don King does best
Gets guys to fight a lot. Like Guillermo Jones.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
Any sentence that begins with "Mayweather talking" and doesn't include the words "fighting Pacquiao"
is a further detriment to Floyd’s already endangered legacy.
He can sign with King or whoever he damn well pleases….but if he doesn’t sign a contract to fight Pacquiao very soon….his talk will become cheaper and cheaper. And so will his falling stock.
by pakinpower on Aug 2, 2010 2:07 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
well, at least Arum's fighters fight
even if it is only each other they fight……..
by journeyintosound on Aug 2, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions
Add to the list of DKP fighters
Tavoris Cloud. Can’t get the reply button to work for some reason, but forgot he signed with King recently.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
KING ???
I think the big picture here is that ‘lil Floyd does NOT wanna’ fight with Manny Pacquiao..simple as that the man does NOT wanna’ mix with Pac. There just seems as if whatever Pac says he’ll do it is just not good enough to satisfy FM. Now he is throwin Haymon under the bus..c’mon guys he is lookin’ for Daddy Don to get him out of this mess, he is being vilified by the press and the majority of fight fans world wide. Like my friend Capt. Jack says: “he’s dancin’ with fear”.
Careful.
This is heading toward being unacceptable in tone.
Just a friendly reminder. :)
Now, Tweek, boxing is a Man sport. There is nothing in the world more Man than boxing. It is Man at his most Man. So when you spar with Ned here, just dig deep into that most Man part of you. (Uncle Jimbo, South Park: Tweek vs Craig)
I think it's a perfect fit
Don King doesn’t like making fights for his fighters, and Mayweather doesn’t like to fight.
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"Baseball is played on the field, not on a calculator."
by Brickhaus on Aug 2, 2010 11:53 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I was about to say ^this.... you got there first again, Gadget...
Now, Tweek, boxing is a Man sport. There is nothing in the world more Man than boxing. It is Man at his most Man. So when you spar with Ned here, just dig deep into that most Man part of you. (Uncle Jimbo, South Park: Tweek vs Craig)
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