We will never know if the investors of the UAE were indeed serious about staging a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight in Dubai or how much the offer was to both parties. But what we do know now is that the offer is off the table
Akbar Muhammad, a long-time boxing executive informed Boxingscene.com that the offer is off the table.
“We want to deal with serious individuals, individuals who have the ability make a decision,” said Muhammad. “Regretfully, that is not the case with Mr. Mayweather. The Abu Dhabi group is serious, and I will not allow them to dangle an inordinate amount of time. Now that time has come and the offer is gone.”
“Muhammad told BoxingScene that he was disappointed in “The Money Team” and maybe they should change their nickname because they are passing up on the richest guarantee anyone will offer them for the fight and to promote the fight.
“Two, the very best of all time are just that because they overcame adversity; they met and beat their nemeses,” said Muhammad. “That’s Ali meeting and beating Frazier; that’s Leonard meeting and beating Hearns.”
And to Muhammad Mayweather may have squandered an opportunity to become just that.
“To rise to the challenge, first, you must accept the challenge, and that means fighting the very best you can when the opportunity arises. Unfortunately, it appears someone on ‘The Money Team’ has no regard nor respect for the tradition and history of neither boxing nor, even more unfortunately, the wishes and desires of the fans of our sport.”
