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    [h=1]UAE Investment Group Ups Ante, Makes It $120M For Floyd Mayweather Jr. To Fight Manny Pacquiao In Abu Dhabi[/h]


    By James Patrick Quizon | December 26, 2014 10:34 PM EST
    Can Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. run away from a guaranteed $120 million purse to fight Manny Pacquiao? That figure is the new offer from an investment group based from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as per M. Albar Muhammad a long-time boxing enthusiast and promoter.




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    WBC/WBA welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. of the U.S. attends a news conference at the MGM Grand hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada September 10, 2014. Mayweather will defend his titles, including his WBC jr. middleweight title, against Marcos Maidana of Argentina in a rematch at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 13.

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    “The media has been speculating the offer has gone up $10 million to a guaranteed $120 million, and they’re right,” confidently confirmed Muhammad to boxingscene.com. “That said, I defy any other offer to come anywhere close to what Mr. Mayweather and the ‘Money Team’ will net by fighting in Abu Dhabi. It simply can’t and won’t be done. Such is the nature of today’s international financial landscape.”
    Muhammad went on to challenge Mayweather Jr. and become “cutting edge” and a “trend-setter” as accepting their offer would mean “the largest payday for an individual fora single event in the history of sports.”



    In recent weeks, Mayweather Jr. has confirmed his intention to fight Pacquiao saying in multiple interviews that he wants the super bout to happen on May 2, 2015 or the Cinco de Mayo weekend. On the other hand, Pacquiao has never resisted the offer ever since the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight was talked about starting way back in 2010 and has also re-affirmed his desire to slug it out with the undefeated Mayweather.
    But, who is M. Albar Muhammad? According to a report from The National, Muhammad was a manager of five world champions including former World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight champion Donald Curry in the 1980s. He also has had a good relationship with boxing great Muhammad Ali and promoter Don King and helped launch the Top Rank Boxing programme on ESPN during that time.


    “His record at bringing high-profile fights to fruition is spotty, though. Muhammad was reported by the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2002 to be trying to stage a Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson heavyweight title fight in Nigeria which never materialised. The Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation also reported in 2003 Akbar, with another promoter named Tiamho Rauf, were aiming to stage a Roy Jones Jr title fight in Nairobi, which never happened.” The National reported last Dec. 3, 2014. Muhammad is currently the president and chief operating officer (CEO) of Akbar Productions LLC based in New Jersey.
    “We are committed to creating a celebration, the scope and magnitude of which has never been seen,” Muhammad added in the Boxing Scene article. “We want the biggest fight ever in Abu Dhabi.”


    Muhammad also mentioned that the offer stands but that the players, particularly Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, have agree soon enough as they want the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao super fight in the first half of 2015. Can Floyd Mayweather reject the lure of huge money available in Abu Dhabi?
     
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    Honestly, REED Never EVER Takes a Big Fight Offer SERIOUSLY, if it's Coming from Abu Dhabi or Dubai...

    if, If, IF Mayweather-Pacquiao Comes to Fruition, it'll Be in Vegas...





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    Dubai :lol:
     
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    Abu Dhabi :lol:
     
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    There's a lot of zeroes in $120,000,000.00.
     
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    Might as well fight in Milton Keynes. Fuck Dubai.
     
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    YUP.....Vegas or it never happens.....


    Floyd loves America....and will not fight in some sand dune regardless of how many billions they throw at it to make it look civilize...
     
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    Dubai makes vegas look like a Sand Dune
     
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    It is pretty....
     
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    Ridiculous. The best paid Filipino in Dubai is on $5 a day.
     
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    Jesus christ ILLU, I didn't realise your taste was this bad. It looks like one of the vilest places on the planet, ugly and vulgar.
     
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    apparently al haymon has offered cotto 40 million dollars to fight mayweather jr. can golden boy beat that offer to fight alvarez. no fucking way
     
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    Dubai is where humans proved that good taste and class could be murdered
     
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    Leave it to al haymon to try to fuck everything up. Can this guy be in a bad accident or something soon?

    Well, the good new is, nobody gives a fuck about pbf/cotto II so even if haymon follows through with his economically perverse offer, he will undoubtedly lose money in the process.

    his grand plan is obvious...ufc style monopoly. It's not going to work.
     
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    Dubai is like a classier/higher end/more cosmopolitan version of Vegas. Which, considering Vegas, isn't really saying much.
     
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    It has the most horrifying architecture ever imagined... It is the tackiest, gaudiest looking place I've ever seen pictures of
     
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    It's also a totally culture-less, artificial city. Full of drunk British people dressed like they're going nightclubbing. Worse, the level of exploitation of migrant laborers in UAE is disgusting.

    Abu Dhabi itself is definitely much more tolerable than Dubai, though.
     
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    Yeah it comes off as kind of a Disneyland for rich businessmen and royalty.
     
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    mayweather jr vs cotto 2 sells a lot more ppvs than cotto vs alvarez
     
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    yeah, it's nuts... Whole thing built on glorified slave labor and meant to be afforded only by the insanely wealthy ... Abu Dhabi definitely doesn't look as awful as Dubai, for sure
     
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    I like in The Onion atlas where they have the picture of kids enjoying a waterslide with oil
     
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    Dubai is where humans proved that humans could be murdered, and the humans who did the murdering could go to England-where the murdering would not be tolerated-and be hailed as Gods.
     
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    Dubai's skyline looks like an old ladies perfume shelf, it's fucking horrible. As I said before, it's Milton Keynes on a larger, tackier scale.
     
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    1.5-2.0 million ppv buys....so some people give a fuck....n the Pacquiao fight will still be there in September.

    Look truth is that BOB ARUM needs to CORNER FLOYD... if he really wants to see Floyd vs Pacquiao.....Floyd said he wants Pacquiao in May 2(he says this after Cotto vs. Canelo already schedule their future fight for the same day)....

    BOB Arum needs to go on ESPN....live press conference ALL OVER TEH WORLD....and say...."In the recent weeks Floyd Mayweather has stated that he is FINALLY ready to fight Manny Pacquiao on May 2.....this promotional company n Golden Boy Promotion have a schedule MEGA fight between Cotto vs Canelo for the same day.....but seeing that Pacquiao vs. Mayweather has been delayed for YEARS do to dodging n ducking from FLOYD Mayweather.....both promotional companies n both Cotto n Canelo have agreed to push the previously schedule fight to sometime in the late summer/early fall...so that Floyd Mayweather n Manny Pacquiao can finally make history. So Floyd Mayweather the DOOR is open we need to get this fight squared away in the next 7 days, Pacquiao has agreed to all your demands, money split, drug testing, etc...etc......" and immediately after...Pacquiao is standing next to Arum on the podium.....and says..."I'm your huckleberry"...
     
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    Floyd will still find an excuse to not fight Pacquiao.
     
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    Maybe....but Floyd defenders/lover/groupies are already spreading that it's a combination of PACQUIAO/ARUM/GBP that don't want to make the FIGHT happen.....Floyd gave the MAY 2 date...n since Floyd has fought on or around 5 de mayo for the last few years...they say/think it's automatic Floyd date....

    If Arum/Pacquiao/GBP go on some ESPN show(the oen with the loud black guy who loves lebron,kobe, all nba players, n FLoyd, and the skinny GAY white guy who act like knows shit but is just bullshitting his way around) n say that......we will move Cotto vs. Canelo to a different date to accommodate FLOYD.....n FLOYD throws out more excuses then it's OVER....most will then know FLOYD is terrified of PACQUIAO....n his NEXT PPV will SUFFER...a bit.
     
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