MANILA, Philippines – Floyd Mayweather Jr. clearly doesn’t want any part of Manny Pacquiao, as far as Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank Inc is concerned.According to Arum, the brash Mayweather, who has been inactive for more than a year now, once again refused another offer to fight the Filipino ring icon.
The proposed fight purse: A staggering $65 million.
"I'm an optimist, and I always felt that they'd eventually fight. At this point, I really feel that they'd never fight,” Arum told Elie Seckback in a video interview released by ESNEWS yesterday.
Arum narrated how the fight offer reached Mayweather.
“Recently, as recent as this week, legitimate people from Singapore offered Mayweather $65 million to fight Manny Pacquiao and he turned it down,” said the promoter, who did not name those who initiated the said deal.
“$65 million is obviously a sum Manny Pacquiao would accept. So what does that tell you? It tells you he (Mayweather) doesn’t want to fight Manny Pacquiao," he added.
Mayweather, who hasn’t stepped in the ring since outpointing Shane Mosley in May last year, has successfully found ways to prevent a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight – expected to be the richest in boxing history – from happening.
There was his demand for Olympic-style drug testing, which Pacquiao initially refused but eventually accepted. The fight, however, still never came to fruition.
Then, when Pacquiao was training in Baguio City for the Mosley fight, news came out about Mayweather’s demand for a $100 million dollar purse to face the Filipino – an amount Arum described as “ridiculous.”
This time, with Mayweather rejecting another offer, Arum concluded that the undefeated boxer does not want to share the ring with Pacquiao.
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