Bob Arum - Pacquiao vs Mayweather Won't Happen

Bob Arum says Pacquiao vs Mayweather Won't Happen: According to Hall of Famer Bob Arum, the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight won’t happen after all. On Thursday, Arum stated that Pac-Man’s desire to fight Mayweather is not enough to get Money Mayweather to step into the ring with the reigning pound-for-pound king.

According to Arum, the American might not want to fight the (50-3-2) Filipino simply to not tarnish his “perfect” 40-0 record. "He is afraid, terrified of losing that zero," Arum said. "That's why he's ducked (Shane) Mosley, Bob Arum says Pacquiao vs Mayweather Won't Happen(Antonio) Margarito and Cotto, and the question is will he duck Manny Pacquiao because he's so afraid of losing that zero."

Currently at SportsBetting.com and in most sportsbooks in the world, Floyd Mayweather [-145 ML] has been listed as a clear, sports betting odds favorite to defeat Manny Pacquiao [+115 ML] in what would be perhaps the biggest fight of this era. But Arum also went on to elaborate on this theory that this Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight will not happen.

"But you have to understand Mayweather's psyche," Arum told reporters. "Psychologically he may not be prepared to do this fight… Now this is me being an amateur psychologist, but Mayweather is so tied up with the fact that nobody has beaten him, that he has a zero on his record, I don't know if he would be willing to go into the ring with anybody that could jeopardize that zero.”

But what does the 7-time champ think about all this back-and-forth with the Mayweathers and the possibility of this fight ever concretizing? "We are not pushing the fight,” Pacquiao told the Inquirer newspaper. “He should be the first to challenge me, after all I got a higher pay-per-view from my fight."

Source: sports-odds.com