{"id":50748,"date":"2015-02-07T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50748"},"modified":"2015-02-07T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T22:11:41","slug":"manny-pacquiao-floyd-mayweather-jr-the-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50748","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao \u2013 Floyd Mayweather, JR: The Blame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"polls-921\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_921\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_921_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"eef17a413c\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"921\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Who do you blame for the fight not being made?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-921-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2593\" name=\"poll_921\" value=\"2593\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2593\">Floyd Mayweather, JR.<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2594\" name=\"poll_921\" value=\"2594\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2594\">Manny Pacquiao<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2595\" name=\"poll_921\" value=\"2595\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2595\">Bob Arum<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2596\" name=\"poll_921\" value=\"2596\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2596\">Showtime<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2597\" name=\"poll_921\" value=\"2597\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2597\">HBO<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-2598\" name=\"poll_921\" value=\"2598\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-2598\">None of the Above<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(921);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(921); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-921-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50748\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50748\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-49901 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/floyd-mayweather-vs-manny-pacquiao-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"floyd-mayweather-vs-manny-pacquiao\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By \u201cBig\u201d Bill Bradshaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an ancient philosophy that tells us never to take life too seriously\u2026that we should merely allow it flow around us like a summer wind\u2026eyes closed, wine in hand, Francis Albert playing in the background. Well\u2026 that\u2019s my philosophy anyway and I\u2019m starting to feel pretty ancient these days so it is what it is. Life doesn\u2019t always work that way unfortunately. Bill\u2019s, break ups, broken dreams and damn luck will hunt you down and leave with a trophy. So whether it\u2019s your head or your ass that\u2019s mounted over the hunters fireplace, I think it\u2019s safe to say that making the best of a bad lot is probably as good as it gets for most of us. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You have to look for the humor and laugh. Trust me it\u2019s there..in plain sight. You can take the time to enjoy it or you can run right past on your way to a heart attack. This week\u2019s bundle of joy came, as it so often does, from that endangered boxing species, Floydiculas Absurdicus, commonly known as \u2018The Flomo\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>When all else fails, when your dog has died and your lady has left and the night has come to stay, you\u2019ll find yourself chuckling through your tears if you simply allow the logic of the Floyd fanatic into your world. God created these hapless creatures as life\u2019s little levities, nature\u2019s clowns if you will, and there is both a spiritual and moral obligation on all of us to laugh long and hard at their farcical nonsense. This week saw the Mayweather\/Pacquiao train chugging slowly toward a standstill and, I have to ask who cares at this stage? Every year, this happens and, every year, we promise ourselves that we won\u2019t be caught again next year.<\/p>\n<p>The entertainment value isn\u2019t in the fight, it\u2019s in the spectacle. It reminds me of the throngs that visit Lourdes and such places. You know absolutely that the mother of God won\u2019t appear but there\u2019s great fun in listening to people who claim that she did. Wooly headed women falling to their knees and crying out that Our Lady appeared to them in the guise of a parking attendant and who told them to \u201cpark that piece of s**t somewhere else\u201d before mysteriously vanishing into an unclean portacabin\u2026blessed be the lord and may he protect us from Satan\u2026or in the case of Floydiculas Absurdicus, may he protect us from Bob Arum.<\/p>\n<p>Poor old Bob. You have to feel for the guy. Mayweather is afraid to risk his 0 against Pacquiao\u2026.but it\u2019s Arum\u2019s fault. Al Haymon wants to feather his own nest\u2026.but it\u2019s Arum\u2019s fault. Showtime wants HBO to bend over\u2026..but it\u2019s Arum\u2019s fault. Bob can\u2019t win. This week the hallowed halls of Facebook were awash with articles blaming Arum for scuppering the fight. These were articles filled with misleading information and written by \u2018journalists\u2019 who appealed directly to the more base elements of the Mayweather fan club. They lambasted Bob because he said there were two outstanding issues to be resolved before the fight could be made but, much to the rage of the writer \u201cArum refused to say what these issues were clearly indicating that he didn\u2019t want the fight to happen\u201d. Wow. There\u2019s a deduction for you. Arum was also quoted as saying that Pacquiao is looking at other options prompting an article that stated \u201cArum\u2019s timing can be called into question. If he was genuinely interested in making this fight, he would never have undermined the talks by suggesting that Pac was looking elsewhere\u201d. That reports came out on Dec 28th last detailing the offer that Al Haymon\/TMT had made to Miguel Cotto is so far over these idiots\u2019 heads it could have Delta Air Lines printed on the wings.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday Feb 6th, Showtime\u2019s boxing chief, Stephen Espinoza went on record as saying that a \u201chandful of issues remained before the fight can be announced\u201d. He went on to say that \u201cthe importance of those issues is pretty big\u201d and that Floyd Mayweather was looking at Miguel Cotto and Amir Khan as possible opponents for his next bout. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely fighting on May 2nd\u201d Espinoza told the Daily News \u201cIf it becomes clear that the (Pacquiao) fight is not achievable, then he would either move on to Amir Khan or Miguel Cotto\u201d. Not a question from the nut jobs that Espinoza spoke out of turn\u2026somehow, it must be Arum\u2019s fault that Showtime would make such statements during delicate negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>I said some weeks ago that Floyd Mayweather would be seen to enter talks with Pacquiao\/Top Rank, that a problem would be fabricated to allow him walk and he would fight Miguel Cotto on May 2nd in the MGM, Las Vegas. I knew, at that time, that the finger of blame would be pointed at Arum\u2026.lowest common denominator\u2026when in doubt, blame Bob. This fight is not being made because Floyd Mayweather doesn\u2019t want this fight made. He laid out a list of demands that Pacquiao has agreed to and to which he, himself, refuses to sign up to. He can\u2019t blame dope testing this time, he can\u2019t blame weights, he can\u2019t blame venues, he can\u2019t blame purses, he can\u2019t blame purse splits\u2026.TBE, The Best Excuses are gone and he\u2019s like a kid hiding behind his mommas dress\u2026in this case Bob Arum\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The Floyd fanatics are happy to play the blame game\u2026any excuse will do when there is a huge possibility that Pacquiao would beat the BS out of Floyd\u2026and then we\u2019d have Adrien Broner speaking for every fanatic by saying \u201cManny beating the bulls**t outta Floyd\u2026kinda makes me feel like I just had the bulls**t beaten outta me\u2026again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They will look to Top Rank for a back door out of this fight. I suspect the wider world, the world where reality is a currency, will shake its head and laugh at TMT, some will blame Pacquiao, others Floyd. But it\u2019s important to form those opinions by piecing together even the tiniest shreds of truth and the Mayweather mob seem to have co-ordination difficulties with that. The result is splattered across the social media sites like bad graffiti and it is wonderfully hilarious. Long may it last!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hello-Welcome-will-punished-your-ebook\/dp\/B00OV5LQSK\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417199572&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=hello+welcome\"><span style=\"font-family: impact, chicago;\">Purchase your copy of \u201cBig\u201d Bill\u2019s Book: Hello Welcome<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/imagez\/rsrad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By \u201cBig\u201d Bill Bradshaw There\u2019s an ancient philosophy that tells us never to take life too seriously\u2026that we should merely allow it flow around us like a summer wind\u2026eyes closed, wine in hand, Francis Albert playing in the background. Well\u2026 that\u2019s my philosophy anyway and I\u2019m starting to feel pretty ancient these days so it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12078,10504],"class_list":["post-50748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-jr-the-blame-game","tag-manny-pacquiao-floyd-mayweather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50748"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}