Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Puts His Dress Back On.

Last week Floyd Mayweather Jr. went directly to one of his appointed mouthpieces to tell the world what most of us knew a long time ago. He's scared of Manny Pacquiao and he will never, ever fight him.

In typical fashion Money May did it in a way that will most likely pacify his increasing small group of hardcore admirers but will only make the rest of us continue to call him out.
He went to his "local" Grand Rapids newspaper and gave an "interview". The fact that Money hasn't lived in Grand Rapids for years hasn't kept that Michigan fish-wrap from prostituting itself for Floyd over the years.
With the current economies for local papers, it's hard to blame them for behaving that way. But if Floyd really wanted to be interviewed by a credible source he could have gone to a number of other more discerning outlets.
Tiger's press conference wasn't this controlled.
It's pretty obvious Floyd wanted to give a statement and not be bothered with messy considerations like questions. Questions like why he is already negotiating a fight that isn't even on the schedule at this time.
In case you didn't read the article, here it is for your perusal.
http://www.mlive.com/mayweather/index.ssf/2010/02/floyd_mayweather_still_wonders.html
The long and short of it is that PBF continues to plead his case on the past negotiations without ever admitting that Manny Pacquiao had already stated why he didn't like blood tests right before a fight. That he felt it made him weak.
How does Manny know this? Because he submitted to a test two days before his fight with Erik Morales.
How do we know this? Well, there are the many interviews Manny did after the fight including this one in 2005. Where he talks about it on video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOFXsVAT8_0&feature=player_embedded#
Which means Floyd already knows why Manny doesn't want to take the drug test. I think we can also figure out why Floyd asked for the testing after the fight had already been agreed upon back in December.
The fact is Manny had already given blood in the past. If he was on PED's and scared of blood tests why would he have done that right before the Morales fight?
But Money knows all of this. The fact is Money doesn't want to fight Pacquiao.
If we were unsure of PBF's intentions, the second half of the article pretty much confirms what a lot of us already assumed.
That part of the article is a laundry list of demands that Money says he will make in any future negotiations. All of which he knows full well will not be agreeable to the Pacqiuao camp.
This is classic Floyd. He starts making his case for why he won't fight a credible opponent years before he might have to face them.
He made excuses for years as to why he wouldn't fight Mosley. Now that Sugar Shane is 38 and has lost most of his recent fights against top contenders, he suddenly wants to fight.
The interview also confirms to me that Mayweather-Mosley will be a very boring fight that will leave most fight fans reaching for their Five Hour Energy drinks in an attempt to stay awake before it is over.
Money talks about how he's too smart for Mosley. Read between the lines and it says "Mosley's getting old, he hasn't fought in over a year and if you think I will let him come anywhere near me you're out of your mind."
Last week at the unveiling of the new HBO documentary Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals , Magic Johnson ended his comments with a plea to the head of HBO sports Ross Greenburg.
"Ross Greenburg." Magic called out. "Make Mayweather-Pacquiao happen."
Unfortunately Johnson was yelling at the wrong guy. It's Mayweather not Greenburg that's gumming up the works.

source: bleacherreport.com