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It's a future that most certainly doesn't include Manny Pacquiao as his next opponent, Mayweather says.
"I'm just really tired of the media and the people being fooled," he said. "The truth is, (Pacquiao's promoter) Bob Arum
is not going to let the fight happen. It's not on me. I went to
Pacquiao and offered him $40 million, and told him I would wire him $20
million within 48 hours. He turned me down and said he wanted a 50-50
split. I'm like, how can you ask for 50-50 and you're not doing the same
numbers that I'm doing.
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"So
once he's free from Bob Arum, will the fight happen? Absolutely. But as
of now, he's with Bob Arum so the fight isn't going to happen."
Asked
if 21-year-old Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, who defended
his WBC 154-pound title in a unanimous decision victory against Shane Mosley
in the co-main event, might be on his short list of possible opponents,
Mayweather skated around the question, praising Alvarez but saying he
"fought nothing but young pups coming up."
Could this have been Mayweather's last hurrah?
"I don't know right now," he said. "I really don't know. I'll go back home, sit down with (manager) Al (Haymon), sit down with HBO,
sit down with my staff and see where we go from here. I don't have to
fight if I don't want to. They say save the best for last, and I say,
the last fight was a hell of a fight."
Mayweather will have plenty of time to think. He's scheduled to begin serving a prison sentence on June 1.
That's the day Mayweather will leave his family, his freedom and his lavish Las Vegas lifestyle behind, and report to the Clark County Detention Center here to begin serving an 87-day sentence for misdemeanor domestic violence.
Mayweather
had faced more than 30 years but a plea bargain resulted in his
current sentence. He was supposed to begin serving the time in January,
but petitioned judge Melissa Saragosa to move it back to June 1, citing
the $100 million economic impact his Cinco de Mayo fight, already
reserved, would have on Las Vegas' economy.
It is a date Mayweather is loathe to admit bothers him. He calls June 1 "just another day."
"Everybody
knows my situation. June 1st is just an obstacle that's in my way," he
says. "When I go away, the only thing it can do is make me stronger as a
person. And say to myself, 'Next time you're faced with that situation,
approach it in a different way.' When it's all said and done, man can't
judge. Only God can judge."
Mayweather's best
friend, rapper 50 Cent, did time himself and knows what Mayweather is
facing. "One day is two days too many to spend without being able to get
up and go and move as you please," he said on HBO's 24/7 series.
Once
Mayweather, who earned a record $32 million guaranteed for the Cotto
fight, serves all or part of his sentence, he must decide who his next
opponent will be, or even if there will be a next opponent.
"I don't know where we're going to go from here because we basically fought everyone in the sport," he said.
Mayweather
(43-0, 26 KOs) and Cotto (37-3, 30 KOs) put on a show that will be long
remembered as perhaps his toughest battle. He won by unanimous decision
in a fight that was closer than the judges' scores of 117-111 twice and
118-110 would indicate.
It's the type of fight Mayweather has seldom engaged in because the style would shorten his career, he says.
"I
could've just outboxed (Cotto) and moved, and made it a boring fight,"
Mayweather, 35, said to his supporters who packed the post-fight press
conference and hung on his every word. "But it's a recession. You guys
spent your hard-earned dollars to come see me, so I said, (expletive),
let me give you guys what you want to see.
"Before
I leave this sport, at least I can give the fans one toe-to-toe battle.
I could've stayed on the outside and just outboxed him all day. I
looked for the knockout. And he's tough as hell."
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