Maybe you missed the interoffice memo or the obituary notice.
But you've got to be, if you're as inqusitive as I am, wondering who died and left Floyd Kill Joy Mayweather Jr. Boss?
I capitalize Boss, Bossman, Head Honcho, Grand Exalted Ruler and Dictator because this is how (self) important Mayweather is.
And, when I say that he is Da Boss with the Hot Sauce, I'm not only talking about his ultra busy Mayweather Promotions.
Among Mayweather's grand delusions are that he is El Supremo, the Boss, of Everything.
He's the head of Philthy Rich Records, a label whose roster of rap stars read like names taken from the guest register at your nearest Motel Six. I defy even the most ardent rapaholic to name one "talent" peforming under the Philthy Rich banner.
Guess Snoop Cat didn't (litter) pan out. (That's a joke, son, a joke.)
Mayweather is to random bloog testing crusade what Kim Il Johg, the not so funny fruticake who has North Korea on total locdown and its citizens eating one hot meal per day (a bowl of steam).
But as detailed in my adjacent column, Mayweather prefers to think of himself as a Malcolm X, a Dr. Martin Luther King were or what President Obama aspires to, an agent of societal uplift.
"Hope and change, change and hope."
If he were a candidate for public office, that would be Mayweather's campaign motto.
Oh, and lest you Pacmaniancs forget, L'il Floyd is also the Boss of Manny Pacquiao.
I am basing much of this on Floyd's latest diatribe, spoken to and duly recorded by his friendly hometown correspondent, David "Hold The" Mayo.
In Mayo's Grand Rapids Press/Mlive.com piece, Mayweather tosses a bomb into the grave of the aborted in January negotiations for a humungous fight between he and Pacman.
Now, listening to Mayweather, you know that Mayweather doesn't want his minions to broker a deal with Team Pacquiao, he wants to hold them hostage.
“Instead of 20 or 25 (million dollars), he may have to drop to 15, or 17,” Mayweather said. “And you know me, they may have to throw that extra five or 10 on mine, and we can rock and roll. Take it or leave it.”
As a convenient excuse for this reversal of position, Mayweather said he will base that on his May 1 bout with Sugar Shane Mosley faring better in terms of PPV numbers than the March 13 between Pacquiao, a Filipino, and Joshua Clottey, who comes from Ghana.
See what an "all American" fellow Floyd is now?
Just as I predicted in writing on Feb. 8, after the first try to make the mega bout failed, Mayweather has taken the 50-50 split of all revenue off the table. I predicted that the money fight will cast a giant shadow if they try to put the fight together down the line and will be a bigger issue than blood vials and sharp needles.
Now, instead of the righteous even steven money split between two superstars who tower above their competitors, Mayweather is saying he will penalize Pacman from five to 10 million dollars because he didn't roll over in round one of their talks.
I really hate to blow my own horn here, but if I don't there may be no music so see what I penned as to this just seven days ago:
"In a saner world, you could logically deduce that making the mega match would be easier with only one pesky issue, the unbending Mayweather demand for totally random blood testing, to be battled back and forth.
But this is Bizarro World, this is boxing and, while I hate to be the nattering nabob of negativity, I think the second round of negotiations will be more difficult.
Let's start with this premise, that the 50-50 revenue split has gone out the window because I think it has.
All bets from Round One are scratched.
Think of Pacman's March 13 bout with I'm Not Joshing Clottey and Money's May 1 Sugar Free Mosley fight as being like primary elections."
Reviewing that makes me feel like Madame Auring or Larry Ellison, you know an oracle.
Mayweather is trying to turn his hated former promoter, Bob Arum, into a eununch.
And he's doing it now when both he and Megamanny have prior business to handle at their offices.
Ask yourself, especially you devoted Floyd fans. why would he flip the script on the money now?
Instead trying to smooth the path to Pacquiao, he is erecting artificial barriers.
He's like a guy who has a pebble stuck in his shoe and tries to remove it with a rock.
There really is only one answer for such public posturing and I suppose I can spell it for you slow readers and not so nimble thinkers.
Mayweather, the sport's best boxer, does not want to fight the sport's best fighter, Pacquiao.
I guess he doesn't like to duke it out with employees.
Source: examiner.com
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