Floyd Mayweather: Is He Holding The Trump Card On Manny Pacquiao?

By Troy Sparks

Manny Pacquiao, the current pound-for-pound champ, apparently has nowhere to turn.

His fight against Antonio Margarito may be in jeopardy because Margarito can't get his boxing license reinstated.

If Pacquiao was in a card game, his hand wouldn't beat the hand from the other guy at the table because he would lose the game.

Floyd Mayweather has the winning card in his hand, but he isn't ready to put it on the table just yet.

Hearing that Pacquiao may not fight is making Mayweather drool.

He would be the joker who wants Pacquiao to beg for mercy.

If Pacquiao's fight against Margarito is cancelled, then the Pac-Man is at a dead end.

That would put his camp back to square one.

It would give Mayweather the upper hand by agreeing to a deal on his terms and conditions.

And to help put this exciting package together is none other than Don King.

King told the UK Sun in an article published Sunday that he's confident that he can make the fight happen.

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"I'm a people person," he said, "and Mayweather and Pacquiao would be a people explosion."

King can sell fights like no other promoter before or after him.

"It's the fight people want to see," he said. "They will come from all over the world to see it."

King said that Mayweather will make more money through him than any other promoter can promise him.

"No one can generate money like I can," King said. "I never cease to amaze myself."

And, King has a prediction on the outcome of the fight.

He said that Mayweather will knock Pacquiao out.

They know Pacquiao is running out of time to accept the challenge.

Said King: "Pacquiao has two chances: Slim and none, and Slim has left town."

Pacquiao's team is backed in a corner if the Margarito fight doesn't happen.

The Pac-Man is feeling powerless and has no negotiating control.

He can't let this opportunity slip by.

There's only one way to keep his PFP title, and he knows it.

This is certainly a build-up to the hype that Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali had in their first fight in 1971.

Pacquiao is considered the underdog and Mayweather the favorite.

There are not too many times that the underdog wins.

I can see Pacquiao getting nervous and desperate because the people won't let him rest until he can either retire Mayweather's undefeated record or bow out gracefully.

Credits: bleacherreport.com

Roach predicting knockout win for Pacquiao over Margarito Watch N 13

By Chris Williams: To no surprise, trainer Freddie Roach is predicting a knockout win for his fighter Manny Pacquiao over Antonio Margarito when/if they fight on November 13th. Speaking with Brad Cooney at Examiner.com, Roach had this to say about the Pacquiao vs. Margarito fight: “I am confident in my fighter [Pacquiao] and I do predict a knockout along the way. Margarito is a big guy, so his size will be a little bit difficult. Is he a big puncher? We will see. I will be watching his hand wrapping the whole entire time.” Well, Roach certainly has a beatable enough opponent for Pacquiao to fight. Margarito was easily beaten by 38-year-old Shane Mosley last year by a 9th round TKO.
And in Margarito’s comeback fight against Roberto Garcia this year, Margarito was the weaker puncher and looked slow and lost many of the exchanges against Garcia. Margarito’s old power was missing and he spent a lot of the time running around the ring, trying to stay away from Garcia. In looking at that fight, I guess I’m not surprised that Margarito has been selected as Pacquiao’s next opponent. Margarito looks completely vulnerable.

I think Margarito would lose to many of the top junior middleweights right now, and many of the top welterweights. He seems to have lost his power and is even slower than he used to be. And when you throw in the 151 pound catchweight that he’ll be fighting Pacquiao against on November 13th, it’s easy to see Pacquiao getting the knockout win that Roach is predicting. It’s too bad that Pacquiao wasn’t directed at Sergio Martinez instead of Margarito. That would have been interesting to see Roach predicting another knockout win for Pacquiao and then having to come up with excuses after Pacquiao would likely lose the fight. Margarito is what he is – another beatable fighter for Pacquiao to feast on.

Like many of Pacquiao’s recent opponents, such as Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya and Joshua Clottey, Margarito is coming off of a recent loss at the time that he’s being matched up against Pacquiao. In other words, Margarito is struggling and ripe for the pickings. He’s only fought once in the junior middleweight division in the past six years, and yet he’s fighting Pacquiao for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title. Pacquiao has never fought at junior middleweight. I wonder what the other junior middleweight contenders feel about this.

Their promoter Bob Arum is doing everything he can to make this fight happen by working feverishly at trying to get Margarito’s boxing license to fight in the United States.

Arum wanted the fight to happen now and wasn’t interested in waiting for Margarito to get his boxing license back, redeem himself by fighting three or four top fighters before throwing him in with Pacquiao.
This is a rush job by Arum, and it’s not turned well so far with Margarito being turned down by both the Nevada and California Athletic Commissions in his attempts to get his boxing license back. Margarito lost his license last year after a hardened plaster-like substance was found in his hand wraps before his bout with Shane Mosley. Now disliked by many boxing fans, Margarito has been selected out.

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