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Not any time soon. You can pretty much bank on getting Mayweather-Cotto 2.

Mayweather & Heymon were only half serious in sending feelers to Pacquiao's people. Not because they really wanted to, but because of the pressure put on them by Saul Alvarez decision to challenge Mayweather at the box office on May 2. Only a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight could have assured TMT a victory in PPV buys over an Alvarez-Cotto date.

But the first choice was always to scoop Cotto, thereby getting more titles with an easier fight and at the same time screwing Alvarez and his promotion - now Alvarez is stuck with a higher-risk, lower-reward fight with Kirkland, which will do well in PPV sales but won't beat Mayweather-Cotto - to do that, Alverez' only option would be Golovkin, and I'm pretty sure Oscar doesn't want him doing that this year.
 
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i don't often watch boxing, but this is definitely one I'd tune in for.
Let's hope it happens and all this drama and publicity is not wasted. Many people will get blue-balls
 
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Hard Idle said:
Not any time soon. You can pretty much bank on getting Mayweather-Cotto 2.

Mayweather & Heymon were only half serious in sending feelers to Pacquiao's people. Not because they really wanted to, but because of the pressure put on them by Saul Alvarez decision to challenge Mayweather at the box office on May 2. Only a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight could have assured TMT a victory in PPV buys over an Alvarez-Cotto date.

But the first choice was always to scoop Cotto, thereby getting more titles with an easier fight and at the same time screwing Alvarez and his promotion - now Alvarez is stuck with a higher-risk, lower-reward fight with Kirkland, which will do well in PPV sales but won't beat Mayweather-Cotto - to do that, Alverez' only option would be Golovkin, and I'm pretty sure Oscar doesn't want him doing that this year.
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Alvarez lost his last fight to Lara. How does he win if he got out landed in total strikes and overall percentage
Boxing is such a corrupt sport.
 
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I gave up on this fight happening 3 years ago
 
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Hard Idle said:
Not any time soon. You can pretty much bank on getting Mayweather-Cotto 2.

Mayweather & Heymon were only half serious in sending feelers to Pacquiao's people. Not because they really wanted to, but because of the pressure put on them by Saul Alvarez decision to challenge Mayweather at the box office on May 2. Only a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight could have assured TMT a victory in PPV buys over an Alvarez-Cotto date.

But the first choice was always to scoop Cotto, thereby getting more titles with an easier fight and at the same time screwing Alvarez and his promotion - now Alvarez is stuck with a higher-risk, lower-reward fight with Kirkland, which will do well in PPV sales but won't beat Mayweather-Cotto - to do that, Alverez' only option would be Golovkin, and I'm pretty sure Oscar doesn't want him doing that this year.
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The fight is on. :thumb:

Cotto can wait.
 
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Pacquiao by UD 7rds - 5
 
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I thought the deadline was yesterday Sat?
 
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I thought the deadline was yesterday Sat?
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LOL. Did you really believe Mayweather would meet that deadline? He was going to make sure that lapses if for no other reason than to demonstrate a refusal to work to anyone else's timetable. He lives for playing politics like that more than anything else.

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There's still things that need to be ironed out. Only TMZ is confirming the fight through a source. So it's still not a deal yet.
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Doesn't really matter that Alvarez is neither especially good nor especially entertaining to watch. The fact is he has major PPV sales gravity. Popularity isn't always a rational phenomenon. Mayweather cares at least as much about winning the May 2 PPV duel as he does about his ring achievements, and the only guarantee of that is a Pacquiao fight, hence the sudden negotiations.

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I gave up on this fight happening 3 years ago
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And rightly so. The actual boxing value of the fight was highest between 2009-2012. Today its fight between clearly declining fighters.

Another thing that's probably given both Mayweather & Pacquaio a jolt is the realization of just how badly they screwed up by passing on a fight with the crippled Sergio Martinez.
 
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I don't think there has been any indication that may weather is a declining fighter. Paceman, yes.
 
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