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The Sports Thread #1 For 5/2/14: The Petty Team

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Focus: How Floyd Mayweather Revealed That Despite Everything He Has, He is Still A Fool  Photo From Mayweather's Twitter In case you needed another reminder to this fact that won't improve your life one single iota, Floyd Mayweather is the highest paid current athlete in the world now. More than LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. More than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. More than Miguel Cabrera. More than even Peyton Manning and Tom Brady combined. He is an still undefeated and considered pound for pound the #1 boxer, even if his ducking (which will be addressed later in this column) is maybe the greatest thing about his career. He is about to have another one-sided victory over a far inferior opponent that will lead to him getting another $32 million pay check. But no matter how he has made a living now at being able to dupe thousands of people into playing for his ridiculously overpriced PPV fights against fighters who will never be ask quick as he is (including y...

Sports Saturday #3 For 5/1/10: Mayweather Outclasses Old Mosley, Still Is Scared Of Mosley

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Photo from Getty Iamges' Ethan Miller Mosley hurt him the second round, but after that, Mayweather made the adjustment and Mosley showed why 38 is a big differnce from 32. After the fight, Mayweather continued his cowardice "moral highground" BS by not wanting anything changed about his condition with Pacquiao. To reiterate for those who still need to be reminded, here is what the Pac Man said last night : Pacquiao, who watched the fight in the Philippines, told Manilla radio station DZBB that he would agree to blood testing, but only if it is not taken within 24 days of the fight. That is basically the same stance that derailed the fight the first time around. "For me, as long as the drug test is not done close to the match, I'll agree because if they'll get blood from me close to the match, it will be a disadvantage for me because I'm smaller and he's big," Pacquiao said. Yet Fairweather, as Skip Bayless calls him, is still too too sc...

Sports Thread #1 For 1/6/09: Arum Says The Fight Is Off Again

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Photo from AP's Joe C.Hong One sided is this perspective of the fight breaking down when the news breaks, but I guess Arum is the only one who will give up quotes : Two days of mediation and negotiation hoping to save the proposed March 13 megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr ended Wednesday with no deal, and Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, said "The fight is off." "Floyd Mayweather walked away," Arum said by phone late Wednesday night. "The fight's off. Our guy was agreeable, Mayweather wasn't. The fight's off." He further added "It's not surprising. I always felt that he wasn't going to do the fight. He knows Manny will beat him. Mayweather's never stepped into the ring with a guy he had any question but that he was going to beat. "That's why there's never been a (Shane) Mosley, there's never been a (Antonio) Margarito, there never was a (Miguel) Cotto, and there's no Pacquiao. ...

The Break/Sports Thread #1 For 12/23/09: The Fight Is Off

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Thanks to the Olympic blood testing request of the Floyd Mayweather camp, the March 13 scheduled fight between him and Manny Pacquiao is off as being reported. Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter, broke that news. Shame for boxing if this is the case, and let's hope a reconciliation can somehow happen in all of this.

Sports Thread For 12/1/09: Floyd-Manny Fight On Line For Either March Or May 2010

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Says the great Dan Rafael The proposed super fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather is getting closer. Mayweather agreed to terms for the welterweight title bout on Tuesday, multiple sources with knowledge of the negotiations told ESPN.com. The proposed date is March 13, although there is a chance it could move to May 1, sources said. Mayweather, according to a source close to him, is OK with either date. Now the latter date could become as a problem as Rafael describes, because of Pacquiao facing eligibility issues for trying to become a Congressional figure in the Philippines. And the whole prize money split hasn't been even ironed out yet it seems. But the progress towards this fight is happening fast and frantic.

Mayweather Last Night

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Was rustiest a legend , lol.