NOT to brag but as early as 2009, I said the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight will never happen.
I have not changed my position.
Have we forgotten?
Floyd Mayweather Jr. had made impossible demands for him to agree to fight Manny Pacquiao.
Initially, Pacquiao balked.
But when, finally, Pacquaio backed down and said yes, what did we see next?
A Mayweather doing a 360-degree turn.
Fight talks went pfft.
What did I say?
Mayweather is a typical boxing man, a dyed-in-the-wool inhabitant of the red-light district of sports that is boxing.
Months later, Mayweather made another U-turn: He wanted to fight Pacquiao. Again.
Once more, with feeling, Mayweather flung on the negotiating table demands that were so unpalatably outrageous Mother Teresa would cringe at the mere thought of them.
Still, Pacquiao kept his poise, saying nothing except to point out that, ?What Mr. Bob Arum says, I will merely follow.?
But, alas, in his crazed monologue, Mayweather accused Pacquiao of using steroids and illegal drugs to enhance his strength and power.
This, Pacquiao didn?t take sitting down.
In 2009, he filed a case of defamation against Mayweather and, among the respondents in the suit were Oscar de la Hoya & Co.
A judge in Las Vegas recently found merit in Pacquiao?s charges and ordered Mayweather et al. to stand trial in court.
The case was apart from other cases that Mayweather currently faces?battery against the mother of his two children, stealing a cell phone, and poking a security guard in Las Vegas.
If found guilty, Mayweather could face up to 34 years in prison.
Now, tell me, with all that luggage swimming in Mayweather?s mind, how can he be in the right frame of mind to fight Pacquiao in November?
But give Mayweather credit for fortitude. Just this week, he was at it again.
?I?m going to fight Pacquiao but only if Arum gives me $100 million,? Mayweather said.
Still unconvinced?
Hey, class, who among you would remember the film, ?One Flew Over The Cuckoo?s Nest??
Jack Nicholson was the cuckoo, who wasn?t really a cuckoo, in that nest of cuckoos.
Mayweather would have fitted to a T had he been cast in that film.
