Suddenly, Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. is saying all the right things. Suddenly, he acts as though he is lobbying for Barrack Obama to appoint him as ambassador the court of St. James (England). Pip, pip, good show and jolly good, something like that.
Mayweather’s mantra on Sugar Shane Mosley never changes. He keeps saying that he has no need to add Mosley’s name to his perfect, 40-0 pro ring resume.
And Mayweather is spot on on that count. Mosley, for all his prowess and all his experience, is not just an “A side” fighter on the pay per view TV level. That’s why Mayweather keeps digging those shots at Mosley, saying that Shane’s “lane” is HBO Championship Boxing and not the upper echelon, the rarefied air of PPV blockbusters.
What may be more telling that his Mosley comments is how carefully Money is parsing his words when it comes to his fellow “A side” superstar, Manny Pacquiao.
No bad names, no pejorative descriptions fall from Mayweather’s lips. L’il Floyd’s new hymn book always has the same lyrics now, “Pacquiao is a good fighter.”
Folks, what we’ve got here are two golden geese who can mutually lay a humongous egg and they and their handlers both know it.
Look at Pacman promoter Bob Arum. He’s not assailing or impugning Mayweather anymore either, not after Mayweather “outpointed” Pacman-Hatton with a one million PPV buy rate for the Sept. 19 bout against Juan Manuel Marquez.
You don’t keep spitting in the faces of people you need to sit down at the table with, people you need to come to agreement on a $50 million promotion.
Get everyone in harmony, get the needed documents signed and then the two sides can resume spitting into the wind blowing in their adversaries direction.
So please excuse my little bout of doubt from Wednesday. Character actor Arum may have pulled some wool over my eyes. It wasn’t the first time, it won’t be the last.
What foretells the future, what will put Mayweather-Pacquiao into motion if Manny defeats Miguel Cotto Nov. 14, is what the two principals want.
Leave their respective peanut galleries aside for now. They are inconsequential.
Manny wants this fight for the money and the legacy.
Floyd wants this fight for the same two compelling reasons.
When the two guys who dish out and absorb the punches give the proper command to their henchmen, it will be made.
Come to think of it, wouldn’t March 13 still give Pacquiao plenty of time for electioneering especially if he is on the so called “national ticket?”
The public is voting for Mayweather-Pacquiao.
The fighters are not tone deaf. They hear your cry and they can see the mountains of money.
Tune out the nattering nabobs of negativity.
The fight the public demands will be delivered.
