This weekend provides four heavyweight bouts of some interest for those fans left who enjoy the division.
Two top 10 contenders are on the card (albeit in mismatches) at Hamburg’s Grand Elysee.
Meanwhile there’s American talent on show in Verona, New York.
Here are the previews and predictions of this weekend’s heavyweight fights.
The answer to the question posed in the title of this article has gone with the wind in the court of public opinion.
In the next three slides, I state the “case of blame” for each man that makes up the increasingly infamous trio that is Bob Arum, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
Most Mayweather supporters blame Pacquiao and vice versa.
As always, I believe the truth falls somewhere in between, and here’s why.
Floyd Mayweather has made a living by talking trash about anyone and everything walking the earth. Manny Pacquiao doesn’t get involved in all the talk, but the people in his camp have done their share of it whenever “Money” bashes Pac-Man.
Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is the latest one to get involved in the verbal back and forth. In an interview with Keith Idec of Boxing Scene, Roach said that Mayweather’s cowardice won’t allow him to accept a fight with Pacquiao.
“Typical Mayweather,” Roach said. “He doesn’t want to fight us. He’s been running for two years now. What’s new?”
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