There’s no doubting their enthusiasm but you have to wonder at the methods of two of the so called investor groups wishing to stage the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao. On Friday, I wrote about and quoted one of the key guys in Falcon Hawk Entertainment, music hustler Danny Rucker. His is the group that undisputedly set up the meeting with L’il Floyd and Pacquiao adviser Michael Koncz on the day before Thanksgiving at the fighter’s gleaming Las Vegas gym. Rucker’s group also includes a fellow named Michael Garibay and, more prominently, Joseph Jackson, patriarch of the famous musical family. There’s a second group headed by another music promoter named Carl Harris and, at this point, I have no idea who or where the third group of potential fight underwriters are. The weird thing about the Rucker group and the Harris-led faction is how they are beating their drums in public without having made solid, detailed offers, let alone getting Floyd or Manny to agree to anything. Rucker even confessed to me he’s been waiting patiently for a back from ultra low profile Mayweather adviser Al Haymon. Meanwhile, with little accomplished, both groups are pumping out information to websites, including my little corner at Examiner.com and over at Cincinnati Kid Ben Thompson’s Mayweathercentric Fightype site. I asked someone very close to Pacquiao Friday why he thought the groups weren’t keeping their cards close to the vest, why they spit out info for public consumption. Here’s what this fellow said: “Ask yourself, would you do it? Would any careful, cagey investor do that before getting signed contracts from the two fighters? Maybe those two groups are all hyperbole, meaning little or no substance. Maybe they want to get their names out there in order to raise money from others.”
