Will it ever happen?Mayweather vs Pacquaio

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Bob Arum: Mayweather vs Pacquiao possible for early 2015

By Fraser Coffeen 15 hours ago



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Promoter Bob Arum is once again hyping up the long desired Mayweather vs. Pacquiao superfight, telling fans the fight may happen within the next year.
For boxing fans, the Holy Grail of today's fight scene has long been one elusive fight: Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather and Pacquiao are the undeniable two biggest marquee names and greatest talents of this era, and the fact that they fight in the same general weight class means a fight between these two titans has long been discussed. Sadly though, it's never become a reality, and most boxing fans have come to accept that they will just have to deal with this as a golden opportunity forever lost to the ages.
Now, Top Rank head and Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum is rekindling the flames of Mayweather vs. Pacquiao. On the press tour for the November 22 Manny Pacquiao vs Chris Algieri PPV fight, Arum told the San Francisco Chronicle that, in regards to Mayweather vs. Pacquiao:

Both networks [HBO and Showtime] want this fight to happen. All signs seem to point to the fight happening early next year.

Talk about this fight first began really heating up back in 2009, and since then there have been various points where "all signs seem to point to the fight happening", but for a variety of complex reasons, it never has. Were it to happen next year, it would be a massive fight - not as massive as it would have been prior to Pacquiao's loss to Juan Manuel Marquez and "loss" to Timothy Bradley - but still big.
But if history is any indication, the chances of that actually happening are slim. Don't hold your breath on this one folks.
Pacquiao next fights on November 22 against Chris Algieri, while Mayweather rematches Marcos Maidana on September 13. Stay tuned to Bloody Elbow for full coverage of both PPV encounters.

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Not holding my breath, Mayweather vs Maidana is a farce an easy payday for both on the sucker fight fans
Maidana took this fight knowing he cant win also knowing he wont get hurt big dollars for him just another boring fight nite with this one but i will watch for free!
I also have a bad feeling about pacman facing N.Y. think he bit off a little more than he can chew with this one.

Mayweather Sr.: It's gonna happen

Although Floyd Mayweather Jr. has yet to announce his plans for 2015, his father has no doubt that a fight against Manny Pacquiao will happen.
"It's gonna happen. That fight's gonna happen. Trust me," Floyd Mayweather Sr. told fighthype.com. "That fight's definitely gonna happen. It's a fight for the world, man, right there. It's the biggest fight that has ever been in life, so like I said, man, that fight's gonna happen."
Mayweather Sr. said his son never told him that the fight was in his plans, but with his son saying that he will retire after finishing the two fights left on his six-fight Showtime deal, he believes all signs point to the megafight with Pacquiao.
[+] Enlargehttp://a.espncdn.com/photo/2014/0917...r2_300x300.jpgAl Bello/Getty ImagesFloyd Mayweather has repeatedly said that he plans to retire after his contract with Showtime, which has two fights remaining, comes to an end.


"[I'll] tell you right now, he never told me the fight's gonna happen, but ... the fight's gonna happen," Mayweather Sr. told the website. "You mark my words, and we'll see."
The 37-year-old Mayweather Jr., who is 47-0 with 26 knockouts and holds the welterweight and junior middleweight titles, has yet to divulge his future plans other than he expects to fight somebody in May.
"I'm gonna go and talk to my team and see what the future holds," Mayweather said last month after his second victory over Marcos Maidana. "I don't know who I'm fighting in May, but I expect to fight in May. Manny Pacquiao needs to focus on the guy in front of him. Once he gets past him, he can look to the future. If the Pacquiao fight presents itself, let's make it happen."

“That fight's definitely gonna happen. It's a fight for the world, man, right there. It's the biggest fight that has ever been in life.
”- Floyd Mayweather Sr., on prospect
of his son fighting Manny Pacquiao

The 35-year-old Pacquiao, who next defends his welterweight title on Nov. 22 against Chris Algieri in Macau, China, has said that a fight against Mayweather "could happen" in 2015. He even took a few jabs at Mayweather last month on Twitter, saying, "He acts like an uneducated person" and that "he should fear God."

Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said recently that HBO and Showtime/CBS have been holding talks about working together on a joint pay-per-view.
It remains to be seen whether a deal can be made -- it has gone unmade for years despite intense public demand -- but count former champion Sugar Ray Leonard among those who want to see it happen.
"They should fight. ... That fight would be huge," Leonard told Fox 11 Los Angeles last month. "I think fans are starving for excitement. Fans are starving for competition, evenly matched fights. But it would be huge."

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