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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao (Photo:HBO)
At the moment there isn’t a hotter topic in the sport of boxing than a potential Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather fight. It has been reportedly heavily that both sides are now in the negotiating stages of making the contest happen and fans and media alike are dying to see what steps take place next.
One man who has been keeping tabs with everything surrounding both men, whether he likes it or not, is Floyd’s Uncle Jeff. Despite staying busy on a daily basis training his core group of fighters out in Las Vegas, word spreads fast amongst family and the keen Uncle has a pretty good sense of what is going on behind the scenes. One thing Uncle Mayweather feels needs to happen on both sides to make the fight happen is for each man to swallow their pride a bit.
“First of all it’s a situation where both guys are going to have to put their egos in check,” Jeff says reflecting on both men. “The fight isn’t going to happen unless there is a 50/50 split. No matter what Floyd says or what Manny Pacquiao says. If somebody is talking 60/40 it isn’t going to happen. The only way it happens if it’s straight down the middle or it isn’t going to happen.”
A Pacquiao-Mayweather clash would be a huge event in the sport and the money involved would be monumental. There isn’t a bigger fight out there that people are eyeing but Jeff insists that the time for the bout to happen is now, and that it can’t wait a second later.
“You have to strike when the iron is hot,” Mayweather insists. “If the fight doesn’t happen soon enough the boxing public isn’t going to care as much. To be honest, if this fights get pushed back to 2011 it isn’t going to have the same luster. It’s not even going to be mean as much. After a while people may turn their back on it because they’ll say it should have happened earlier. The only that can happen beyond that is that maybe both could challenge other fighters they should beat to keep interst. But if it doesn’t happen next year the same interest isn’t going to be there.”
Uncle Jeff definitely took notice this past November 14th when Pacquiao displayed his best abilities in dissecting and dominating Cotto. It was a performance that was explosive and impressive, but still Mayweather sees some weaknesses in Pacquiao’s overall attack.
“Don’t get me wrong it was a great win but there were three things that I saw in that fight,” Mayweather points out. “The first I noticed is that Margarito basically killed Cotto’s career. Cotto is not the same fighter and he showed the same vulnerability he showed when he fought Clottey. The only difference is that Clottey didn’t have the same mentality to go finish him like Pacquiao. Clottey was content to hurt him but when he was busted up and ready to quit but he didn’t make him quit.”
While Pacquiao was able to adapt to Cotto and eventually control their fight Mayweather feels that a bout with Floyd would look much different. It doesn’t have as much to do with Pacquiao’s abilities as much as it has to do with what Floyd brings to the table, Jeff insists.
“One thing that Cotto did show during the short time where he was doing well was just how easy it was to outbox Manny Pacquiao,” Jeff recalls. “With that being said, to be honest, Pacquiao has nothing more than a puncher’s chance against Floyd. I think we’ll see a replay of Mayweather-Marquez. If Pacquiao doesn’t catch Floyd with a big shot I don’t see him doing anything. The only punch he can land against him is the hook and it is very powerful. The other punches he throws are just too wide. Basically Floyd can stay on the outside and basically pick him apart.”
At that point the conversation took a drastic turn when Uncle Jeff was asked exactly how he is able to keep an objective mind when assessing his own nephew’s abilities. Elaborating further Jeff notes that while blood runs deep, he is able to take the Mayweather persona out of the equation and assess Floyd Jr. alone by his talents in the ring.
“Even before Floyd was boxing I was a big Roy Jones fan,” Mayweather reflects. “I thought what Roy Jones did was phenomenal when he was at his peak. I fought in the nationals with Roy Jones and I talked to my coach at the time and I told him that Roy was special and different from anybody else in the tournament. I noticed that he was on a whole different level than anybody out there. To me, if you take the name away from Floyd it’s the same thing and I am watching the same thing as to when Roy was at the top of his game.”
When pinned with the reality that because of his name value Jeff will always have some sort of tag associated with him, all he does is shrug. While others may point towards possible favoritism, all Jeff can do is call a spade a spade.
“Everyone is going to say I’m biased but I just take things for how I see them,” Jeff claims. “I’m not ashamed to say that Pacquiao is a great fighter as well. I also know that styles make fights and anybody who tries to fight Pacquiao is going to be in trouble. But somebody who can outbox him and outthink him has a great chance of beating him.”
Whether people in the sport like it or not, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is back and his role in making a Pacquiao fight has been questioned by some. Many claim that the undefeated fighter is unsure of his abilities and reluctant to face the current pound for pound king but Uncle Jeff simply sees it as a case where his nephew is biding his time until the moment is right.
“I think it’s a situation where Floyd isn’t worried too much about anything. He knows eventually that he is going to have to step up to the plate and make things happen. For the most part he has the intention of having a fight in England. I think he is focusing on that more than Manny Pacquiao. I think he is going to try to make that happen then move on to the Manny Pacquiao fight. I’m not sure who he is fighting but I know that Roger is training him know.”
Chris Robinson is a freelance writer based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. He can be reached at Trimond@aol.com and www.FaceBook.com/CRHarmony. More of his work can be found by clicking HERE and more of his coverage relating to Pacquiao-Mayweather can be found below…
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Comments
ITS BETTER THE PUNCHER THAN THE RUNNER....BWAHAHAHHAHA....WARRIOR THAN GAY DUCKING...
To settle the Pound for Pound Kingship Once and For All, this fight should happen at 147 and please no catchweight.
GAYWEATHER IS "F U C K I N G A S S H O L E" DUCKING....
Shut up! A typical Mayweather analysis. You're all always emphasizing that your lil' Floyd is a perfect fighter. Why is is he ducking when challenged by Mosley? He can't even dare to challenge Cotto. Cherrypickers!!!!!
YEAH!! EVEN IN 154LBS...
SHOOTINGSTAR GAYWEATHER IS REALLY TRUELLY GAY..HE CHALLENGED BY MARGARITO WILLIAMS COTTO MOSLEY...BUT INSTEAD HE......CRY AND DUCK..WAAAAAAAAAAA
the problem Jeff, is your "style of boxing" is boring.. Floyd IS NOT A FIGHTER BUT A BOXER !! We don't want to see boxers..He's a runner, boring and a cherry picker.. Yes he'll win against the Pacman ,coz of this style. If he fights him, he'll get ko'd and embarassed.
The title of this article is False. It's apparent that these Mayeathers are all the same.
At least for now, I heard a more sober voice in Roger than the other two Mayweathers.
Anybody here the ducks QUACKING?... Run floyd run!!!!
i like you're work chris....i have a question do you actualy go there or do you do all these interviews by phone? see what i tell you pactards stay on the outside and pick him apart....thats the blue print....don't try go toe to toe with this cat..hatton and cotto found that out the hard way....oh yeah chris i gotta another question.....what this $h!t about floyd going to england.....comfirmation please
Im a pacfanatic like everyone!!As much you dish stuff out about mayweather's bieng loud, ducking good fighters, etc.... Are you going to be able to also take it if by chance, Floyd pulls a rabbit out of the hat and beats manny! Just a thought?
Ooh yes, his uncle is talking about my baby boy, who will definetely whoop Pacquaio and box his ears off. No one's a bigger fan than I am. My sig from now on is "I swallow PBF's sausage for breakfast, gargle his sac for lunch, and have taint and salad for dinner...yummy yummy yummy, I love me some Floyd Jr....and senior hehehe. #1 Floyd fan b*tches.
PBF is going to England so he can duck MP..duhhh...if you're a true Floyd fan then you should already know this...duhhh...I'm disgusted and you call yourself #1 Floyd fan...GTFOH ya fruit
50/50 is not fair, 30 is good enough for gaywerather. no belts , a cheater, he cheated juanita last fight, very demanding not exciting boxer all he does is run joe run....boring.probably 20% is enough for his purse.....always self proclaiming he is the best, all B***S***....
Floyd fan...it depends, sometimes I meet people face to face, sometimes I interview them over the phone, other times I interview them at the gym, etc...It all depends...This Jeff piece was done over the phone but i run into him out here in Vegas 2-3 times a week so sometimes its face to face, etc...
pac-gaywdr fight is not goin to happen bcoz of that beloved egg..
If cotto wasnt the same then why didnt floyd fight him on his come back fight? since thats his "modus operande", fighting smaller and over the hill and damaged boxers. Answer is... They knew that cotto is dangerous so they cherry pickd marquez instead and make him come up 3 divisions.
Another excuse!
Nice article. I didn't realize that Jeff Mayweather can talk that straight. He seems to be a good guy. I can't belive that Mayweather is thinking of going to England. What? It looks like he's chickening out. :(
Floyd is past his prime, can't compete on a high level, and is a lot weaker than Pacman. So, if Jeff Mayweather thinks competing with Manny is easy, then have Floyd signed the contract! STOP THE B.S. MAYWEATHERS SINCE THAT'S ALL WE HEAR FROM THEM.
Fair enough.But still one thing is certain Gayweather wants to fight in England coz he's ducking pacman no doubt about it.Any way you say it you're nephew is afraid of Pacman that's the bottom line.
Jeff said it! it's Mayweather who need to step up to the plate haha lol fighting in England, what the heck!!
I think Floyd jr. aiming to fight Ricky's brother Matthew Hatton. Another easy opponent that Floyd Jr. can easily toyed inside the ring. Escape goat of avoiding to fight Pacquiao.
if gayweather duck pacman and fight a little opponent im sure HER PPV #s as SHE say will fall. for sure i wont waste a penny for HER boring fights. gays....
all i know is that your nephew never intended to challenge the best or the real threat in his weight. If Miguel Cotto is not the same after Margarito fight why didn't he fight Cotto. Margarito lost to Mosley but he Money May didn't fight him afterwards even in Mexico. Mosley confronted live on National TV but all he said "you should respect me, it's my moment". Mosley respected Money may that is why he wanted to prove if Money may is worth the respect at all. Mayweathers are running out of excuses. Sign and fulfill the fight. Only then can we determine if your accusations or observations are true and not just hypothesis.
Mayweather clan need to stop their assessment that Floyd Jr. can easily beat Pacquiao. If that's their belief the right thing need to do is to shut their big mouth, step up on the plate and negotiate. Easy money for them because Pacquiao is easy prey in their own mind. Delusional people.
Everyone should boycott the Fraud "MonKey" Mayweather, Jr. fight until he fights Pacquiao or other top notch opponents. It will also show that loudmouth that he isn't a PPV star which he claims to be. We, as fans, have the responsibility to show this fraud that his scam is over.
what england? sign the freaking contract already...
common jeff advice pbf to sign the contract if youre assisment is true on pacman and you can tell the difference if he not hittable pacman is human machine remember that
you dont wanna be biased? your last name is mayweather dumbass!
JUST SIGN THE CONTRACT !!!!!!Gayweather's you're all talks but no BALLS!
How can someone say that Floyd Jr is "special" if he didn't face high caliber opponents?
The whole boxing world knows that he is ducking. So Floyd Jr. is a "special duck" I guess.
Come on man, who will believe this clan anyway. They always talk sh!t. They keep on mentioning that marquez fight while the whole boxing community knows they cheated on the scales. And now they want to fight a nobody from england instead of fighting Pacquiao which they can have more money even if they agree to fight 70/30 in favor of Pac-man?
It only boils down to "ducking Pacquiao"
forget about me, i am a huge fan of manny too pretending not.. and also my idol before which in the name of mayweather has no massss to manny as what i have seen in manny's fight against cotto. please be inform that i am a huge fan of manny and i am crying deep inside when i say i am not a fan of manny, believe me...
forget about gayweather's too, they are just an animal's pretending to be a human, they are apes in modern era, so please just forgive them specially the sr and jr. they are apes not human. take note that sr was a drug dealer and user as well and not manny who are using steroid nor drugs. i am sorry that i accused manny before too, but i think i am not yet late. better sorry than talking sh**t out of nothing, learn from the mistake is a good sign that you are really a human. and not an animal like gayweathers... GOOD LUCK MANNY...
So before Pacquiao became the face of boxing, why wasn’t there a star to carry the sport to the masses in the early part of the twenty-first century?
Well there was. After the Hatton fight, it was Mayweather’s time to carry the sport and assume the role as boxing’s superstar and he didn’t step up. Unlike Floyd, Manny has lived up to his super-star billing and has represented the sport in an honorable fashion by fighting the best, putting on exciting performances, and acting with dignity and humbleness in a way that seems genuine.
And I have been Mayweather guy the entire way and have rated him as the best fighter in the world since Roy Jones struggled with Tarver in their first fight in the fall of 2003 and still favor him over Pacquiao, but the bottom line is Mayweather never embraced the responsibility associated with being the symbol of the sport like Manny Pacquiao has.
1FLOYFAN the fight will not happened, floyd will not fight Paquiao mark my word, not on May not next year he will pick another easy opponent...his uncle already said that floyd is on training not for paquiao but his going to england to fight SOMEONE he did not mention so don't put the words in mouth of your Idol you mean nothing to him ACCEPT THE FACT THAT FLOYD DON'T CARE ABOUT HIS FANS, "TRUTH HURTS" YOU KNOW
chicken!!! bok bok bok bokooooookkkkkk
ok im back you can stop pretending that i'd say all those nice things about manny now comprende? i don't see anything biased with what rogers saying just that he's not praising pacquia thats all.....whats wrong with that?
This Jeff Mayweather has a point in there in pointing out the obvious weaknesses that Pacquiao showed in the Cotto fight, without resorting to the insane reasoning that Floyd Sr has remarkably made himself famous for. This Sr fool -- raised in a drug using/dispensing family -- believes that only a drug-addled boxer can defeat his son. Nonetheless, JeffM's attributing weaknesses only from technical incapacities is misleading and a sure sign of cluelessness in the Mayweather family. Pacquiao opens up his defense in the glorious, reckless abandon that only those who understand why a Northman berserker or a Pinoy juramentado are the way they are. You feel that the Predator, despite being a fictional character, is real because this fictional pound-for-pound champion of the galaxy will surely hunt, fight, get wounded, and be hunted down itself, when it messes up with humans. Surely your command of English and boxing body language is better than mine, a non-native, non-American speaker
: but when Pacman signals, asks and says with his gloves "You want a piece of me?" and "Bring it on", you know in not so many words that styles and techniques will be flushed down in blood on the Tecate canvas.
As a Filipino boxing fan, I am not too particularly impressed with Pacquiao, as he really is too UFC-aggressive for me. But then again, I have even less reasons to be impressed with this Mayweather Jr who thinks that his gangsta, mouth-boxer approach to calling out fighters is a sign of his personal bravery, and impresses anyone who does not belong in the African American community. This boxer holds no credible championship in the junior welterweight and higher divisions, and has zero record of fighting credible warriors who are reasonably near their prime. Pacquiao, a natural 140 pounder at most, is both a junior welterweight and welterweight champion in 2009.
Mayweather's backers says he has great defense. But any one from the military-industrial infrastructure will tell you that the only proof of great defense is its stopping-power against SUPERIOR, NOT INFERIOR, OFFENSE. That the manufactured, zero-defeat record of Mayweather was ran up against inferior offense can not be contradicted even by Money's zealots. Can recreational-warrior de la Hoyas, bloated Marquezes and incompetent Hattons be ever mistaken as offering superior offense???
Sucker-drying entrance and PPV fees from Mexican and British fans may be sport to the Mayweathers, but it certainly is not for the rest of the world. Like the majority of non-African American fans, we wait silently -- and confidently -- on the sidelines. We know what the Pacman, who has been vilified no end by the irresponsible Mayweather Sr and Jr, will bring to the table when he sees this dysfunctional family on the other side of the ring. Us silent types know that, for a few dollars more, Pacman will silence fools.
C'mon guys, cant you see.. Mayweather is scared, he needs more tune-up Fight! Gayweather FANS said Vs Marquez is nothing but a tune up fight for PAC. And what now? Scared of what PAC did to Cotto then he needs MORE tune-up?? PBF was like " Holy crap! I cant beat PAC the way he's fighting Cotto! I need more Tune-up fight Uncle!" Hahaha! Made no mistake, PBF is a tough fight for PAC. But i feel, PBF is more pressured right now cuz he doesnt want to loose his ZERO record to a little guy. Hahaha!
dtfernando mayweather was a beast @ jrWW that right there tells me you don't know $h!t do you see floyd walking around with coliflower ears? no because his D games too good ma man accept it
I thought your calling out pacman? now that he's willing to fight you, what the hell r u doing, preparing for a fight in England with nobody!!!!!! You're really special... "SPECIAL DUCK"....lol
#1floydfan says: dtfernando mayweather was a beast @ jrWW that right there tells me you don't know $h!t do you see floyd walking around with coliflower ears? no because his D games too good ma man accept it
#1Floydfan's opinion that Mayweather was a beast in junior welterweight is no more than an amusing fan's opinion. There are over a hundred highly-respected boxing columnists out there. I'm sure that they will give a fairer perspective as to whether a junior welterweight Mayweather can likely survive a junior welterweight Pacquiao. #1Floydfan should write to columnists about this hypothetical matter of Mayweather being a junior welterweight beast, as I do not flame-bait other fans out of respect for their opinions.
..mouths of the same motor, babbles together..them ducks called the gayfeathers are nothing but a chicken in disguise..
dude floyds out grown jrWW wouldn't that be just what pacquiao would want a weight drained opponent.....hey it wouldn't be the first....i don't think you fully understood me i said WAS key word ma man
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