Mayweather Isn’t Gaga About Pacquiao Fight at LinesMaker

Mayweather Isn’t Gaga About Pacquiao Fight

LAS VEGAS — Floyd May­weather Jr. deliv­ered a fight night taunt to Manny Pac­quiao by claim­ing he would tune in to a Lady Gaga con­cert instead of watch­ing the Fil­ipino star’s easy vic­tory over Shane Mosley.

While Pac­quiao was cruis­ing to a com­fort­able points vic­tory at the MGM Grand Gar­den Arena in a Show­time pay-per-view tele­cast broad­cast, May­weather was at his Las Vegas home watch­ing Lady Gaga on rival net­work HBO — and urg­ing his fans to do the same.

“Every­one watch Lady Gaga tonight on the best net­work in the world, HBO,” May­weather said on his Twit­ter account.

Only May­weather and his fam­ily knows if he really did watch the music spe­cial from Madi­son Square Gar­den instead of the show­down in the ring just a few miles from his home. Yet either way, his appar­ent ambiva­lence to Pacquiao’s win appears to sug­gest that a super­fight between the pair — a bout that all box­ing fans crave more than any other — is fur­ther away than ever.

Attempts to set up a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight col­lapsed in Jan­u­ary, 2010, with the pri­mary stick­ing point being Mayweather’s insis­tence on Olympic-style drug test­ing. Talks were set up again in July, but fell through once more, with Pac­quiao pro­moter Bob Arum and Mayweather’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives at Golden Boy Pro­mo­tions fail­ing to reach com­mon ground.

“For me I don’t care about that fight,” Pac­quiao said. “I am sat­is­fied with every­thing I have done in box­ing. I want to fight because the peo­ple want the fight.”

A fight between the two biggest names in the sport would gen­er­ate huge pay-per-view rev­enues and poten­tially give box­ing a much-needed boost amid an increas­ingly tough sports marketplace.

Arum is in no doubt about what would be the out­come. “He would beat Floyd, I guar­an­tee it,” Arum said. “You are watch­ing a phe­nom­e­non. You are watch­ing the great­est fighter I have ever seen. Nobody can com­pete with it. He will take every sin­gle fighter out of their game plan.

“The guy who knows that best is a real stu­dent of box­ing named Floyd May­weather Jr. He knows us and how we do things, if he had any desire to fight Manny he would call us. May­weather has said that if he comes back he wants a tune up fight first. If he took that it wouldn’t be until next year that he was available.”

Pac­quiao is instead likely to fight Juan Manuel Mar­quez next, although his con­tin­u­ing dom­i­na­tion may be in dan­ger of turn­ing off some fans. Indeed, the champ was so con­fi­dent of beat­ing Mosley that he com­mit­ted to per­form­ing in a con­cert at Man­dalay Bay just a few hours after Sat­ur­day night’s bout.

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