You can’t see the light at the end of any tunnel if you’re blindfolded.
For cover up king Floyd Mayweather (whose unstated objective has been to shroud Filipino icon, arch nemesis and sworn enemy Manny Pacquiao in darkness), yesterday’s revelations probably felt like being blindsided by a train.
Less than a week removed from issuing what I felt was a punk ass challenge to Manny Pacquiao, the only thing that’s been removed beyond any doubt, is that his proposed May 2, 2015 date to finally stage a fight between the two of them – is now entirely up to him.
The only doubt I have in my mind now (to pull an Antonio Tarver before he “K”nocked Roy Jones Jr. TFO) is trying to figure out just what Floyd will do NOW to get out of a fight he’s been avoiding for nearly 5 and a half years. I can’t think of anything he can do. In short, he’s something that rhymes with “ducked”.
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I don’t know what Pacquiao actually did for his birthday yesterday, but maybe he got a live vintage performance from Vanessa Williams, because he went and “Saved the best for last” for all of us in this saga nearing its end, and so will I.
First, he went and dropped this tweet for the world to see:
Manny Pacquiao ✔ @MannyPacquiao Follow @FloydMayweather, don’t be a boxing humbug. Let’s give the fans the fight they want. They have waited long enough. 7:52 AM – 16 Dec 2014
Then, in a coup d’?tat of sorts, he gets Top Rank head honcho Bob Arum to have ESPN broadcast that statement all around the sports world in their news feed, while they ran a subsequent story. Understanding that Floyd falsely believed Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Miguel Cotto had come to terms for a May 2 showdown – which prompted him to issue what he wanted fans to believe was a bold challenge, Pacquiao is now essentially pulling his card and calling his bluff.
Gone is the Pacquiao who smiled and deferred everytime the subject of Mayweather was broached. Despite successfully suing the man for running his mouth, it was something excruciating to either watch or listen to over the years.
Now, he seems almost hell bent on suffocating this man both in and out of the ring; for in his newly found darkness, he is proving to be absolutely brilliant. “Pacturds” around the world must be jumping for joy right now, even as “Flomos” glare at the screen as they read this (“YOU!!!” in my Soulja Boy voice), because in raw rap terms, this is what Pacquiao has just said to his legion of followers – and more specifically – to Mayweather himself:
I’ll rise above suspicion b*tch I thrive off competition Most of yall n*ggas gone be victims of attrition You ain’t slick enough to match that slick sh*t you spittin B*tch play ya position you ain’t got a pot to piss in
Yes, a gun toter Never been a coke broker F*ck around wit me I’ll get you flat like coke soda After its exposed to the air you dare oppose The heir apparent to ya throne N*gga the King of Throws I’m back…
To show you chumps why he gotta fight me All because he spite me Showtime might mic me You been trying to Khan me I’m kindly but remember
I’m thin- yes its true, but I’m Ghandi wit a temper
T@z
I wonder how many “Flomos” would become “Pacturds” if Pacquiao was really that crass in spirit. But he’s not. Turn on any TV in the Philippines, and there Pacquiao is supporting his people or fighting for justice. By the way, did anyone see Floyd “tweet” or Instagram a picture of himself in an “I Can’t Breathe” T-Shirt?
I have to address just how boldly “dark” Pacquiao is really being with him right now – and why.
Mayweather, whose nickname as we all know is “Money”, has characterized Pacquiao as “desperate”, but its really the other way around if you’re following things accurately. His leaving HBO had everythign to do with avoiding Pacquiao, as was his decision to fight Alvarez in a “catchweight” super welterweight bout after Pacquiao was named his WBC mandatory defense at 147.
Amir Khan, who looked the good the other day against Devon Alexander, still can’t beat Mayweather and Floyd knows this. He would “box” Floyd, move in ways Floyd would understand as an orthodox fighter, only shoot arm punches to the head (count how many body punches Amir threw against Alexander), and get chopped down behind Floyd’s high guard defense. This is a fight where Floyd would actually walk someone down – and their fan base again – without anyone paying attention in advance.
If that interview he did with Steve Farhood was an inner tube from your bike and we put it in water, so many bubbles would rise to the surface you’d think the water was boiling. His demands are laughable and don’t even make sense. They are either ones Pacquiao had agreed to before, or so ridiculous it resulted in Pacquiao hanging up on his ass.
I ask all of you logically, how much sense would it make if Pacquiao were to impose the condition that Al Haymon be removed from the event entirely in order for him to fight? He’s as contractually bound to him as Pacquiao is to Arum. And if he never wanted to do business with Arum, why did he offer a bullsh*t 40 million when he knew it would be connected to that man in the first place?
If you trace back Floyd’s rise to the “A” side of fights, why does no one seem to understand he would have NEVER been in that position had it not been for Oscar De La Hoya in 2007? Without that fight, or HBO’s help in showcasing his demented reality via 24/7, is he really an “A” side over Hatton, Cotto, Mosley, Marquez or Canelo? Why does he always get so much credit for being such a draw, when in fact, its been his opponents who’ve really been the draw? Is it a coincidence that his numbers for Guerrero and Maidana were PPV flops? No.
Because they weren’t really popular, the fight themselves weren’t popular.
For perspective, they have entire country’s following them – he doesn’t really have his home state (I asked James Toney), let alone this country, following him. You don’t think that’s a reason why he would wanted to face Amir Khan, whose following in England is as big as Hatton’s was? Of course it is.
“He [Mayweather] has reached a dead end,” the Filipino great told skysports.com. “He has nowhere to run but to fight me.”
Of all the names mentioned earlier, Pacquiao is bigger than all of them, is a bonafide and proven “A” side commodity over some of those same fighters, and yet is willing to reduce himself in stature and in salary, all for the opportunity to stand over him in a ring and see the bottom of his feet.
By challenging him both before and after the Algieri fight, spoofing him in a FootLocker commercial, attacking him on social media and then forcing an international media to firmly assess the merit of Mayweather over these 5 years. The bottom line is Floyd – and Showtime – has no where to run.
We’re all ready for this fight on May 2, 2015.
