Mayweather is hanging out with former ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’ host Robin Leach at the Del Mar Racetrack in California?
Mayweather is interested to fight again? The fight will take place in Dubai?
Strange that the only quote we have from Mayweather was two months ago, after his megafight with Manny Pacquiao decision deadline and all the interest it entailed passed, to Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press.
“I’m not interested in rushing to do anything,” Mayweather told Reynolds at the time.
Subsequently, Arum would give Mayweather more time to answer Pacquiao’s invitation to fight but not a word was heard from Floyd.Antonio Margarito was named as the next to fight the Pacman, a fight that has also been slow to contractual bind due to Margarito’s difficulty in obtaining a license to fight; Fallout from Margarito’s illegal handwraps discovered prior to his bout with Shane Mosley.
Floyd Mayweather has been everywhere in the past month, and at the same time, due to his lack of verbalization, nowhere.
Over the past month Mayweather has declined interviews and has been seen being courted by flamboyant boxing promoter Don King and most recently been spotting hanging out with fellow ‘King of the Bling’ Robin Leach.
Following his outing with Leach on August 20, Leach released a statement that Floyd would soon announce his next fight, ” But this time it won’t be in Vegas, it will be in another desert kingdom: Dubai.”
If what Leach says is true, then all it took for Mayweather to get interested in boxing again is a jet-set month of vacationing and relaxation.
Or is there more to it?
We can daydream and speculate of the possibilities of some backroom meetings and handshakes between Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum, King and Mayweather, all working out a fight in secret, to be announced in a grandiose public spectacle worthy of the King name, but don’t count on it.
The “soon” Mayweather reportedly told leach about should be most likely interpreted ‘as soon as Pacquiao signs his fight.’
If Mayweather does announce a fight in Dubai soon and it is against someone other than Pacquiao and it does not come with a good reason why the fight fell through, the truth becomes evident.
On paper, all advantages point to Mayweather: he is the bigger, taller, longer man with an 1 1/2″ advantage in height and 5″ advantage in reach.
Mayweather has a better counter punch and outstanding ring knowledge.
Pacquiao though has unpredictable power, an undetermined style and, especially most recently, an unrelenting assault on opponents.
The one fight needed to cement the Mayweather legacy has turned to quicksand.
Let’s hope that the truth is not as clear as it seems.
Let’s hope that the only thing Mayweather needs to regain his interest in rushing to box is not Pacquiao fighting someone else.
