Why Manny couldn’t be the ONE in 47-1!
Disclaimer: If you’re not a boxing fan, this shit isn’t for you. Don’t complain about a sport you don’t normally watch just for a TKO.
Exactly a year ago, Freddie Roach publicly admitted his fighter Manny Pacquiáo was the reasoning for the Floyd Mayweather fight not happening in 2009 when proper blood work was not submitted. With Mayweather joining CBS in his 6-fight deal during 2013, he finally was open to working with Bob Arum and Top Rank Promotions under his terms. Leslie Moonves, president and chief executive of CBS would seal the fate of the fight last winter when HBO and Top Rank agreed to the lesser split upon Mayweather’s request.
The two fighters would finally meet in person at a Miami Heat game and would sign their contracts just two weeks later. Generating the biggest buzz for an event ever in the social-media era and a hefty $110 PPV price-tag many people paid for, the so-called fight of the century we expected to finally happened last night. For the first time ever, Floyd allowed his opponent to helm promotions for the event with various media appearances, Nike commercials, music videos and even GOD as promotional tools.
With no endorsements given (or needed), Mayweather drew much criticism from the legendary fighters like Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson on calling himself the greatest ever. Saturday night, we were granted a signature Mayweather decision closing, but an even more surprising dominating affair that we didn’t expect to Unified the WBC, WBA and WBO Welterweight titles. While Floyd is set to relinquish the belts sometime this summer, he gets to cherish every title in the division for the time being before his final fight in September.
Continue after this page to find out why Pacman was unsuccessful in his quest of breaking the Mayweather code.