{"id":5599,"date":"2010-11-20T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T03:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2010-11-20T22:47:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T03:47:03","slug":"manny-pacquiao-vs-floyd-mayweather-jr-the-andre-berto-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=5599","title":{"rendered":"Manny Pacquiao Vs Floyd Mayweather JR: The Andre Berto Ploy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n

The negotiations are back on for a 2011 showdown between Manny \u201cPacMan\u201d Pacquiao, 52-3-2, 38 KO\u2019s, and Floyd Mayweather, JR., 41-0, 25 KO\u2019s, but will the third time be the charm?<\/p>\n

Pacquiao is bigger now than ever before and due to the inactivity and perceived avoidance by Mayweather, JR., the people have turned to him as the best in the game.\u00a0 Even if he isn\u2019t the best, he is doing what a fighter should do.\u00a0 He is taking on the best available opposition and sending them out of the ring hurting.\u00a0 Floyd\u2019s business man way of looking at prize fighting has hurt him with the fans and without Pacquiao, he may be forgotten.<\/p>\n

Bob Arum sees the dollar signs that comes with a showdown with Money Mayweather, and with the financial and family issues that Floyd is having, there may be more leverage then ever to reel him into the fight.\u00a0 Pacquiao wants the fight.\u00a0 Pacquiao is a fighter of legacy and curiosity.\u00a0 He wants to see if he can defeat a man that nobody has been able to touch, let alone defeat, and that time is coming.<\/p>\n

Enter Andre Berto, 26-0, 20 KO\u2019s, the WBC Welterweight Champion.\u00a0\u00a0 On November 27th, he defends against Freddy Hernandez, a fighter that has only lost once in thirty fights, but has not had a win that many would be very impressed with.\u00a0 He beat up a faded DeMarcus Corley and took some shots doing it.\u00a0 The most likely scenario is that the difference in class with put Berto at 27-0, 21 KO\u2019s, in about six rounds.<\/p>\n

What does Berto have to do with Floyd-Manny?\u00a0 A lot.<\/p>\n

If you remember when Berto was set to take on Shane Mosley and the fight collapsed due to family issues and the Haiti tragedy.\u00a0 The pressure was too much to take and he couldn\u2019t focus on the fight, or at least that was the cover story.\u00a0 To Berto\u2019s credit, he has started a charity to help those hurt by the Haiti hurricane, but his exit from the fight is rumored to have been partly or totally due to an under the table deal where he\u2019d step aside so Floyd could have an opponent.\u00a0 Berto got paid well for not fighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Berto is back in the position of pawn for this negotiation.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a great concern by Arum and Pacquiao that there will be another fall through for one reason or another and many close to the situation aren\u2019t very confident that Floyd wants to fight at all, let alone fight a beast like Pacquiao.\u00a0 It\u2019s an uphill fight, but Floyd is not immune to the public\u2019s outcry and criticism.<\/p>\n

Floyd announced his comeback on the same night that Pacquiao was stepping into the ring with Ricky Hatton in some attempt to shift attention and link himself with Manny.\u00a0 He wanted the people to know that he is the best in the game and to refocus on him as the pound for pound king.\u00a0 Even the choice of his comeback opponent was strategic.\u00a0 He chose the man that gave Manny the most trouble: Juan Manuel Marquez.\u00a0 When he defeated Marquez easily, he may have thought that he was able to avoid facing Pacquiao and still get the title of best\u2026because he beat the man that nearly beat Manny quite easily, but this is boxing and styles make fights.\u00a0 The public was too smart for that.<\/p>\n

With two collapses in negotiations, one due to rumored steroid abuse by Pacquiao and his refusal to agree to Floyd\u2019s testing demands and secondly to the turmoil in Team Mayweather with domestic problems and Uncle Roger beating up a woman and being carted off to prison where he belongs.\u00a0 Now we have them again, and Arum has been very vocal in bringing up Berto to anyone that will listen to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Arum wants Mayweather to know that Berto is ready, willing, and able to fill the spot and fight Pacquiao.\u00a0 The problem there is that Berto is no challenge at all for Manny.\u00a0 He will be on the canvas early in the fight.\u00a0 He\u2019s got a title and has been featured on HBO quite often, but he struggled with Luis Collazo, a good fighter, not a great one.\u00a0 In fact, many think Collazo won.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The obvious mismatch of Pacquiao-Berto is a ploy only, and those that are now mentioning Shane Mosley as an opponent for Pacquiao can forget that too.\u00a0 Mosley wants no part of Pacquiao and would be beaten to a pulp.\u00a0 His last two fights were atrocious, losing to Floyd as badly as he probably could have and then fighting to a draw with Sergio Mora.\u00a0 He would be chased out of the ring by Manny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The problem is that both men are so far above everyone else, or at least that is how we perceive them, that there is no other challenge for either guy outside of each other.\u00a0 RSR was recently notified that the two best pound for pound fighters are in negotiations again and it was recently verified by Promoter Bob Arum.\u00a0 What does that mean?<\/p>\n

It means zero until the two are signed to fight and even then, I won\u2019t believe it until I see them in the ring across from each other. When and if that happens, it will be the biggest fight of the decade and there will not be an arena big enough to hold all of the fans that want to see it. Keep your fingers crossed fight fans for a 2011 showdown between the two best in the game.<\/p>\n

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