Pacquiao hints at retirement
Eight-time division champ Manny Pacquiao has hinted that a fight between him and pound-for-pound king (at least to this writer) Floyd Mayweather, Jr. may not happen at all. Pacquiao revealed during a radio interview that God appeared to him during a dream and advised him to retire from boxing soon. According to the most popular fighter in the world, the Almighty told him the rigors of boxing is “harmful” to his health if he continues any longer and added that Pacquiao has “done enough.”
While Pacquiao’s ability to predict the future through his dreams is far from Joseph the Dreamer’s ability, we do know he’s very religious (reads the Bible everyday) and absurdly superstitious — check blood tests causes weakness bit.
If Pacquiao does follow the advice of our Lord Savior, he may fight his last fight sometime in November or December of this year. That leaves one more fight for Pacquiao after his match with Timothy Bradley on June 9. Of course all of us are praying to the heavens and the earth that his possible last fight is against Mayweather.
All about the Benjamins
Everyone with the exception of Siskel and Ebert has criticized both camps for failed negotiation after another. Both camps deserve the blame after the smokescreens, pointed fingers, puffed chests, social media wars, defamation suits, and blood tests. The truth is both camps aren’t scared of each other. Far from it. Pacquiao’s not afraid of needles. Floyd’s not afraid of finishing his career with a loss. Bob Arum’s not afraid of losing his cash cow.
With all the posturing from the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps, it has finally surfaced that both fighters are scared of the Benjamins. Yes, we know Mayweather’s lowballed Pacquiao with his offer and a winner takes X percentage of the purse is too risky to put in the hands of incompetent judges. But when it’s all said and done Pacquiao and Mayweather can make the most amount of money fighting each other. The longer they can’t hammer out a deal, the longer they’ll be walking around $100 million lighter.
Floyd needs to realize his offer to keep all pay-per-view profits is an insult to Pacquiao’s drawing power. Pacquiao needs to force Bob Arum to make the fight. Lock Arum in a room, torture him, and threaten to feed him to the sharks. We don’t really care anymore. Whatever it takes, do it.
We don’t want to see two past their prime prize fighters slugging it out while knowing in the back of our heads that the fight would’ve been much more exciting and worthy of crazy hype two years ago.
