Exclusive Roger Mayweather Interview Courtesy of John Martinez

Posted on | August 18, 2010 | No Comments

MAYWEATHER’S MESSAGE TO MANNY: “COME…..MEET US”
by John Martinez on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 | 2 Comments

John Martinez, fightchronicles.com and boxscorenews.com

(17Aug2010) You ever get those calls on your phone where you don’t recognize the number calling you so you let the phone ring until it goes to voice mail?

Usually this will suffice the caller’s needs and they will proceed with leaving a voice message in your mail center and wait for your return contact. However, every now and again, the caller will be persistent and leaving a message will only go so far in their eyes. They need more.

Well three calls and one voice message (marked urgent on my cell phone) later, it was apparent that someone was itching to “reach out and touch someone”; me. The person with the itch was none other than Roger Mayweather.

Needless to say, I returned his calls.

“This fight has to happen; we want this fight,” exclaimed Roger Mayweather.

“The fight for my nephew is Manny. This is the fight that makes the most sense when talking about money making, but also, this fight has to happen cause it’s important to the fans. The people want to see this fight and they should get what they want.”

“I’m hearing people say my nephew’s (multi-world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.) scared of Manny Pacquiao. Floyd ain’t scared of Manny. Lil’ Floyd ain’t scared of sh*t, why should he be?” Mayweather continued, “Let me ask this question, who’s been knocked out twice?”

Roger is clearly talking about the two pound-for-pound combatants that were expected to do battle in the “biggest fight in boxing history” sometime this year-undefeated slick boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the crowd pleasing, heavy handed Manny Pacquiao. However, the dream fight that was, failed to materialize and since has become a nightmare for all involved.

From the network suits to the promoters all the way down to the sweet science fans themselves and everyone in between, the sentiment is mutual, we’ve all been robbed of witnessing greatness in the squared circle.

Many people are blaming Floyd Mayweather Jr. for this fight not taking place. Originally, the fight was proposed with stipulations from the Mayweather camp that Pacquiao submit to random blood tests prior to the fight.

Pacquiao scoffed at this request believing that taking blood from his body would hinder his ability to be at full strength for the fight.

Because of this, the fight was nixed until talks allegedly resumed again over the summer.

This time, Pacquiao stated he would be willing to partake in blood tests, but only if the tests were scheduled to cease fourteen days prior to the scheduled bout with Mayweather.

With that, Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum from Top Rank boxing, initialized a very public deadline for Mayweather to agree to these terms or forfeit the chance to dethrone the “People’s Champion”.

The deadline came and went and no one has heard much from the Mayweather camp about this matter until now.

“The only reason this fight hasn’t happened is because Manny won’t agree to random blood tests throughout training camp,” Roger said.

“This motherf**ker says he agreed to tests, but he really didn’t,” Mayweather continues, “he wants to know when these tests are happening and he wants them to end at a certain time.”

“How the f*ck is that random drug testing?”

He asks, “If you got nothing to hide, then why be so concerned about when you gotta take a drug test?”

“How you gonna leave over 100 million dollars on the table cause you don’t want to take random drug tests leading up to the fight?”

“I know why. ‘Cause you got something to hide,” said Roger.

I’m not sure if Manny is hiding something, but I am curious as to why Floyd is adamant about cleaning up the sport of boxing via random blood tests. Why now? Why go 40 bouts into your career and suddenly demand your opponents submit to Olympic style testing?

Mayweather answered, “My nephew brought this testing up because going into the fight with Shane Mosley, Shane had a history of using substances. And now with Manny, we got our suspicions.”

“Floyd ain’t asking no one to do nothing that he isn’t willing to do himself.”

“You saw what happened when we got Shane in that ring; Floyd put an ass whooping on him and guess what, we got the same for Manny too,” said Mayweather.

Roger continued, “We got something for this mother f**ker. He ain’t doing nothing but living on borrowed time and he knows it.”

“Manny can’t fight. He ain’t shit.”

Mayweather then turned his ire to me, “I heard you thought it would take my nephew eight rounds to finish Pacquiao. You’re crazy.”

“You must be being kind, but blind,” he added, “Floyd won’t take eight rounds to finish Manny. How can you say it’ll take eight rounds when this f*cking bum (Manny) swings wild, has no head movement or defense and ain’t got no f*cking skills in the ring?”

Mayweather offers yet another question to his captive audience, “Who the f*ck has two close fights with (Juan Manuel) Marquez?”

“Manny does. He’s a f*cking bum living on borrowed time and we got something for his ass.”

“The year ain’t over yet and there’s still plenty of time to fight.”

“I’m sure you’ll see Floyd fight before the year’s out,” proclaimed Mayweather.

Aside from revealing his belief that Floyd will fight in the near future, he finished with a message to Manny Pacquiao.

“Come on mother f**cker, meet us.”

In another piece, Roger and I discuss Cotto, catchweights, and the upcoming Antonio Margarito/Manny Pacquiao title fight.

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