Is Floyd Mayweather’s No-Arum Demand for Manny Pacquiao Over the Line?

COMMENTARY | Nobody outside of Team Mayweather and Team Khan feels all the good that Floyd Mayweather's next opponent will likely be Amir Khan. Making the situation especially bad for fans is the fact that Mayweather's only two real welterweight challenges will be fighting each other three weeks earlier in the same city of Las Vegas and in the same MGM Grand venue.

Whether he tries to fill his agenda with Khan or Marcos Maidana or any other assortment of Golden Boy fighters within spitting distance of 147, the fights he really needs are those that seem the least likely to happen.Everybody who knows boxing knows that, for Mayweather, the only two challenges left at welterweight are Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley.

Pacquiao and Mayweather have a lot more in common than many would assume, but despite sharing the same division and PPV venue just three weeks apart, the two stars are could not be more separated from one another. The great, and still growing, divide between the two has been wedged open by four years worth of angry words and wounded pride.

Chief among the reasons that Mayweather vs. Pacquiao (and Mayweather vs. Bradley for that matter) is so unlikely is the fact that, once upon a time, promoter Bob Arum's newest, greatest jewel chose to slide out from under his smothering embrace in favor of the sweet air of career freedom.

Since the day Arum and Mayweather parted ways, Arum has been jealously pursuing the ruination of Mayweather's image with public attacks through the media and little games of one-upmanship aimed at belittling his former star client.

Mayweather, meanwhile, has been assembling a boxing kingdom with him as lone and all-powerful ruler. Now, all alone at the top of the fistic food chain, Mayweather seems intent on striking back at Arum in the most devastating of all possible ways-by trying to lure boxing's other cash cow, Manny Pacquiao, away from him.

Pacquiao is set to become a free agent at the end of this year and Mayweather has not made it a secret that the key to him agreeing to face Pacquiao is for Arum to be out of the picture. Mayweather apparently feels in a secure position of power and now insists on calling the shots. His father, Floyd Sr. has also stepped forward to underline the demand.

"Pacquiao, I think he should take that fight with my son and delete Bob Arum out of the situation and go for what he can go for, do the best he can do because right now he ain't doing very good," Mayweather Sr. recently said on the On The Ropes boxing radio show.

And while this seems to be an absurdly over the line demand on the part of Mayweather, at least some people on Team Pacquiao are willing to entertain the idea.

"If that is Floyd's condition and if Manny agrees - and it looks like Manny will agree to fight Floyd - the only way is not to renew his contract with Bob Arum's Top Rank," Pacquiao's attorney Franklin Gacal told Edwin Espejo of Asian Correspondent last month. "Manny should be a freelancer for the fight to happen."

In terms of "how real is this demand," one could point out the case of former Arum client Miguel Cotto and the long-lasting accusation that Mayweather was ducking the deadly Puerto Rican battler. All of the ducking talk ended when Mayweather signed to face Cotto just weeks after Cotto left Arum's promotional company, Top Rank.

Whatever the case, the long-brewing Arum-Mayweather feud seems to now be the major obstacle in making the biggest bout in boxing. Pacquiao will have the chance to call Mayweather's bluff early next year. Will he take that opportunity or will he hold firm on his own professional pride? The answer will likely determine whether we'll ever see this generation's two biggest stars in the same ring

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Manny Pacquiao is a "Different Person" Now

A lot of people have seen a change in Manny Pacquiao over the past two years. He is no longer the guy who could once pummel his opposition with ease. He is no longer the person to whom boxing is the end all and be all. He is no longer the man who had a certain amount of personal indiscretions going on outside the ring, but who was all business inside of it.
He has clearly grown, evolved and become noticeably different.
Some of the change can be attributed to outside factors. Part of the reason that Pacquiao is no longer pummeling his opposition with ease is because, prior to his last two fights, they insisted on running from him. How do you knockout someone who is running away from you? (Read: Shane Mosley.) Of course, that doesn’t explain why he couldn’t knockout Juan Manuel Marquez and Timothy Bradley. The latter is a marginal fighter, at best, and the former was ancient when they last squared off. He couldn't knock them out because, well, he just couldn't.
As far as boxing becoming less important to him – that was simply unavoidable. As people grow and mature, priorities change. Before, the Sweet Science ranked atop Pacquiao’s priority list. That’s why everything beginning with his family and ending with his politics took a backseat to it. Now the roles have reversed; boxing comes after both of those things. To his fans, the folks that have been following him since the very beginning, the idea of Pacquiao not putting everything he has into boxing is crazy. To others, though, folks who are more removed from the whole situation, it’s sort of understandable.
These days, every time someone talks about Pacquiao having changed, they seem to mean it in a negative context. Well, on Tuesday of this week, Marco Antionio Barrera attended a practice session and had a few words with reporters afterward. He too acknowledged that Pacquiao had changed, but he meant it in a positive way.
“It is going to be a good fight. I think Manny needs to find a knock out so there won’t be any controversy. When he fought with me he was a completely different person. His body, his work, his people and I think he is stronger now,” he said to Elie Seckbach of esnewsreporting.com (via PhilBoxing)

Feature Story: Gospel Singer Don Moen sings praises about boxer Manny Pacquiao

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Gospel songwriter and performer, Don Moen is known for his popular Praise and Worship songs. The prolific singer-songwriter who penned some of Contemporary Christian’s best-selling songs is also reciting words of praise on the Philippines’ most popular athlete, Manny Pacquiao.

I love Manny Pacquiao. We’ve met a couple of years ago in the Philippines,” Moen told painter and artist Rodolfo “Jun” Aquino who visited the singer last October 27th when Moen performed a concert at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

Moen told Aquino how happy he was when he learned of the spiritual changes in the life of the famous boxer. He expressed how he himself felt “blessed” when God transformed Pacquiao’s life.

“You know Jun, I was so blessed how God change Manny, I remember Heavyweight fighter Evander Holyfield when he accepted God as his savior. He did not hide his deep Christian faith from the public. In fact, he was proud of it just like Manny Pacquiao,” Moen conveyed to Aquino.

Aquino, who happens to be a personal painter of the boxer, described how happy Moen was when they were talking about Pacquiao.

Aquino also narrated that Moen was pleased when he heard that Pacquiao distributed thousands of bible at the Araneta Coliseum a couple of months ago. Moen will be visiting the Philippines this week, where he will be performing in three separate concerts starting November 8. 

Source: http://philboxing.com/news/story-76833.html

WBO JUDGES PANEL DECIDES PACQUIAO WON HANDILY

The five independent judges picked by the World Boxing Organization Championship Committee to review the tape of the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley title fight on which Pacquiao lost his WBO welterweight title in a split decision that drew worldwide condemnation, has scored the fight overwhelmingly for Pacquiao. WBO president Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel forwarded a copy of the judges scorecards to the Manila Standard along with his letter to Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer in which he reiterated “there is no question of our respect and high regard for the official judges. Their integrity is not in question. However, it was decided that a review of the bout should take place with a panel of five confidential judges mainly to maintain impartiality.” Valcarcel noted that the instructions to the panel was to watch the tape without background commentary and to then vote after which the WBO analyzed the results. The panel of judges disagreed with the scoring of judges Duane Ford and Cynthia Ross who scored the fight for Bradley 115-113 while CJ Roth had Pacquiao the winner 115-113. Review judge No. 4 had Pacquiao winning by the widest margin of 118-110 while Judges 3 and 5 scored the fight 117-111 for Pacquiao. Judge No. 2 had Pacquiao the winner 116-112 which was the unofficial scorecard of the Manila Standard while Judge No.1 had it closest with Pacquiao winning 115-113 which tallied with the scorecard of official judge CJ Roth. A closer reading of the scorecards shows that all five review judges agreed unanimously that Pacquiao won rounds 1, 3, 5, 6 and 11 while all five agreed unanimously that Bradley won round 10. The judges voted 3-2 for Bradley in round 2, 4-1 for Pacquiao in round 4. 3-2 for Pacquiao in round 7, 4-1 for Pacquiao in round 8, 3-2 for Pacquiao in round 11 and 3-2 for Bradley in round 12. Valcarcel noted “the results speak for themselves.” Top Rank promoter told the Manila Standard that the investigation of the Nevada State Attorney General’s Office is being pursued as the Chief Investigator and the Deputy Chief Investigator visited him in his Las Vegas office on Wednesday morning and “questioned me about a lot of background things for over an hour.” Arum said they asked him whether he had any proof of criminality and he answered “none, absolutely none.” The Top Rank promoter agreed that the WBO findings means the NSAC needs a major revamp of the system and has to bring in some younger judges from a wider pool. “That goes without saying” said Arum. He said “the pool of officials is way too limited. They have to broaden it to include the best judges and referees from all over the world.” Boxing writer Steve Carp of the Las Vegas Review Journal reported that NSAC chairman Skip Avansino disclosed that under their system Kizer submits a pool of six names to the Commission from which the judgfes are selected. He also revealed that prior to the selection both fighters camps are asked if they have any objections and if there are none ( as was presumably the case in the Pacquiao-Bradley fight) Kizer gives his recommendations to the commission and they are usually approved unanimously. Carp said Kizer had revealed that the Attorney General’s Office had requested documents and tapes connected to the fight and that the Commission sent the information including the judges scorecards and the minutes of the May 21 meeting when they were selected. The NSAC chairman at the same time said the commission had no problem using judges from outside Nevada but would defer to Kizer on such decisions. Avansino said Kizer “is best suited to determine the capability of all officials he brings before us for recommendation.” Arum said that in view of all these developments that a rematch between Pacquiao and Bradley is out of the question for the moment “at least until we have some definitive statement that this occurred by judges error” and not anything else. Pacquiao himself told ABS-CBN News that while he welcomed and thanked the WBO for its decision which he said should serve as a lesson to the judges but that he is not planning any unilateral action and will leave the matter in the hands of the WBO. Pacquiao indicated he is still open to a rematch with Bradley but will discuss the matter with Arum when they meet in the second or third week of July. In his letter to Kizer, the WBO president said he would “respectfully suggest that more participation of duly registered and licensed officials by the Commission be pursued as this would create a better work environment. It is a way to explore the improvement of the sweet science.”