“If the fight doesn’t happen now, then it will probably never happen. Pacquiao can’t afford to have another bad performance. If he does, the luster of this fight that once seemed to be a great matchup, like a Tommy Hearns vs. Sugar Ray or Hagler fight, that type of super fight doesn’t happen. The luster is already starting to leave. Pacquiao can’t take a chance of fighting Marquez again and looking bad. He can’t take a chance of fighting a Tim Bradley, a guy who brings nothing to the table anyway except he’s going to make you look bad. That’s the only thing he brings to the table. He can’t take that kind of risk. I have read articles out there, and I don’t know how true it is, but I see where they are saying Pacquiao can’t fight in May because of some cut he had over his eye. How long is it going to take for his eye to heal? It don’t take no half a year,” stated world-class trainer Jeff Mayweather, who talked about a number of subjects, including Cotto’s performance against Antonio Margarito, the mega-fight between his nephew, Floyd Mayweather, and Manny Pacquiao, and much more. Check it out!
PC: How is everything going Jeff?
JM: Everything is going good. Celestino is working really hard in the gym. He has a fight coming up in Japan, so he’s getting ready.
PC: You said that was the best market for him.
JM: Oh yeah!
PC: What did you think about Cotto/Margarito?
JM: I think that the right guy won this time. Cotto stuck to a game plan and honestly, he did exactly what he was doing in this first fight, but like I said, who knows what was going on with Margarito. Maybe the hand wraps got hard and all of a sudden, he wasn’t able to take the same shots that he was able to take early in the fight. Basically, what I seen was a replay of what was happening in the first fight. Even when he was getting caught, the punches didn’t have that type of effect on him.
