If negotiations had fallen apart between Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor and the UFC, Manny Pacquiao would?ve gladly stepped in, according to Top Rank CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao and made the declaration last month.
As we know, that didn?t happen, and here we are on the precipice of a fantasy fight once thought impossible taking place Aug. 26 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Just because Pacquiao apparently was willing to fill in if given the opportunity, that doesn?t mean he approves of Mayweather (49-0 boxing) fighting UFC lightweight champion McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC). Related Floyd Mayweather’s trainer worried about Conor McGregor ‘doing something stupid’ in fight
Pacquiao is very interested in the boxing superfight going down between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin on Sept. 16. But three weeks earlier, Pacquiao told Yahoo.com he won?t waste his time on the Mayweather-McGregor spectacle.
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The reason why falls in line with the thinking of many folks, considering the bout pits a 49-0 boxer in Mayweather vs. an 0-0 boxer in McGregor.
?McGregor has no chance in this fight,? Pacquiao said. ?In fact, it could be very boring. ? There is no way he will be able to land a meaningful punch on Floyd. How could he? He has no professional experience in boxing.?
Pacquiao barely managed to land a few meaningful punches on Mayweather during their much-anticipated superfight in 2015, which failed to live up to the hype (but drew a record 4.6 million pay-per-view buys) and resulted in a unanimous-decision win for Mayweather.
It was boring, and Pacquiao has to know this now looking back at it. So surely you could see where he?s coming from.
