Mayweather dialled back on the announcement, saying the fight \u2013 set to take place at The Sphere in Las Vegas and be streamed live on Netflix \u2013 would not be professionally sanctioned.<\/a><\/p>\nSpeaking on Inside the Ring, Pacquiao said he believes Mayweather\u2019s comments came from a place of fear, but was confident in the binding contracts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called Jas right away \u2013 what happened? That\u2019s not what we signed, we signed a real fight. He\u2019s got his event, he\u2019s announcing this exhibition, blah, blah, blah. Jas told me, I don\u2019t have any idea \u2026 I think he\u2019s scared of losing, because that\u2019s his leverage to go around and have exhibitions. If that record was ruined, what else can he leverage?<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, he cannot get out of this contract. He will face a lot of consequences if he fails this commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Echoing those comments, CEO of Manny Pacquiao Promotions, Jas Mathur, then said there is a hard deadline of tomorrow for Mayweather\u2019s team to commit to the original agreement.<\/p>\n
\u201cFloyd\u2019s signature is on multiple contracts. Professional fight \u2026 Netflix doesn\u2019t want to be involved in [an exhibition], we don\u2019t want that to happen. Look, Floyd cares about money \u2026 The attorneys are [speaking].<\/p>\n
\u201c[Mayweather\u2019s team] just have to see the light as to the platform and the size of what Netflix is, and all the opportunities it can bring. Tomorrow [is the deadline.] 14th. End of business day. We\u2019re getting ahead. As long as he\u2019s got smart people around him that can see the size of the opportunity, then they can make him a lot of money. More money that he\u2019s made in the last five years.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I can say is we are making headway on it, there is a contract in place and I think better sense will prevail here. I hope it will.\u201d<\/p>\n
More news is therefore expected this week on the event which, whilst perhaps not the most thrilling prospect for hardcore fans, has all the ingredients to be the biggest boxing event of the year by a distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the announcement of a professional rematch with Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather later claimed that the bout would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-605387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}