Mayweather Vs. Pacquiao Bout Doomed: Mayweather Camp Says Their Side is Not To Blame

Posted on | January 7, 2010 | No Comments

Editor’s Note: Tony “The Tornado” Penecale and I talked about the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao breakdown on our FNU RADIO SHOW’S 2010 OPENER TONIGHT. As an expert on defamation, I can only surmise that Floyd Jr. just made Manny Pacquiao’s defamation case even easier to pursue by using the words: “The truth is he just doesn’t want to take the tests.” Floyd cannot testify to what Pacquiao wants and cannot be in a position to know. He can’t state a fact about how Pacquiao feels, and defamation is a publication or mass communication of a false statement of fact. This is one situation where maybe Floyd needs to keep his mouth shut for a while.

HERE ARE THE LATEST COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE MAYWEATHER CAMP:

FLOYD MAYWEATHER STATEMENT

“Throughout this whole process I have remained patient, but at this point I am thoroughly disgusted that Pacquiao and his representatives are trying to blame me for the fight not happening when clearly the blame is on them.

“First and foremost, not only do I want to fight Manny Pacquiao, I want to whip his punk ass.

“Before the mediation, my team proposed a 14-day, no blood testing window leading up to the fight. But it was rejected. I am still proposing the 14-day window but he is still unwilling to agree to it, even though this is obviously a fair compromise on my part as I wanted the testing to be up until the fight and he wanted a 30-day cut-off. The truth is he just doesn’t want to take the tests.

“In my opinion it is Manny Pacquiao and his team who are denying the people a chance to see the biggest fight ever. I know the people will see through their smokescreens and lies. I am ready to fight and sign the contract. Manny needs to stop making his excuses, step up and fight.”

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Judge Daniel Weinstein today issued an order to correct the false record that has been created by the recent statements from Top Rank and Manny Pacquiao’s representatives concerning what occurred at the mediation. The full text of the Judge’s statement is as follows:

Mediator’s Corrective Order Re: Mayweather-Pacquiao Mediation

The Mediator finds:

1. Various articles have appeared in the press purporting to characterize the substance and outcome of the Mayweather-Pacquiao mediation and the negotiations between the parties. Many of the reports are incorrect.

2. The mediation was a confidential proceeding. Any comments to the press or public by participants in the mediation purporting to report the substance or details of the mediation are violations of the strict confidentiality to which the parties and their representatives agreed and which they authorized the Mediator to enforce.

3. The parties and their representatives authorized that, if misinformation was disclosed to the press by either side, the Mediator would correct any erroneous information.

The Mediator corrects the erroneous reports to the press as follows:

a. Both parties participated in the mediation in good faith. Both parties participated in many hours of negotiation, with a number of proposals issued by each side and carefully considered by the parties and their representatives.

b. The Mediator himself did not formulate, recommend or issue a Mediator’s Proposal. The Mediator did not make an evaluation or finding that any one of the many proposals considered by the parties was the correct protocol.

c. Any attempt to characterize the mediation process as an acceptance or rejection by any of the parties of a mediator’s or an arbiter’s proposal or of any specific proposal is false.

d. In the end, the parties could not agree on a testing protocol acceptable to all.