Floyd Mayweather is pissed!! Just a few days after telling the word via a text message to Stephen A Smith that he would give Manny Pacquiao a rematch after his shoulder heals from surgery, he is now calling it off and changing his mind.
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The money man is now changing his mind and claims he will not give Manny Pacquiao a rematch because he is basically angry the Pacquiao camp continues to use the shoulder excuse as to why Manny lost the fight, instead of giving Floyd credit for beating him.
“Did I text Stephen A. Smith and say I will fight him again? Yeah, but I change my mind. At this particular time, no, because he’s a sore loser and he’s a coward,” Mayweather told Showtime’s Jim Gray in an interview taped this week that will air Saturday night (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET) during the network’s replay of last Saturday night’s pay-per-view mega fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
“If you lost, accept the loss and say, ‘Mayweather, you were the better fighter,'” Mayweather continued.
As you know, Floyd won the fight pretty convincingly in most peoples eyes, including the judges. Mayweather out-punched him and out worked him, but Pacquiao definitely threw enough punches to make it hard to believe the shoulder was bothering him that much.
“I’m not going to buy into the bulls— … and I don’t want the public to buy into the bulls—,” Mayweather said. “He lost. He knows he lost. I lost a lot of respect for him after all of this.”
Gray asked Mayweather if he could detect a problem with Pacquiao’s right arm during the fight, to which Mayweather answered, “Absolutely not. He was fast. His left hand was fast. His right hand was fast and he was throwing them both fast and strong. Excuses, excuses.”
Floyd is saying this now but could sing a different tune once he again remembers how much money could be made with a rematch. As someone who watched the fight I have to feel where he is coming from. The after story became all about Pacquiao’s shoulder instead of the dominance Floyd displayed throughout the night. At the very least they should have given Floyd his due and then discussed what made have caused the loss despite being out-boxed.
