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The Internet is buzzing over two guys watching a sporting event! That’s because those two guys are Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather and it helps to fuel speculation that they will be stepping into the ring against each other soon. Now when we can perfect some sort of time travel technology to make it a fight people are dying to see again, then we’ll be cooking with gas.
Mayweather and Pacquiao sealed the deal. Shook on it. Exchanged phones and typed in each others' numbers. pic.twitter.com/A1Fv18xQXj
— Grant Smith (@StrategySmith) January 28, 2015
The two fighters sat across from each other at tonight’s Miami Heat/ Milwaukee Bucks game and spoke at halftime as you can see above. What they talked about seems to be a secret, but that isn’t stopping folks from assuming the obvious. From ESPN:
“He gave his number to me and said we will communicate with each other,” said Pacquiao, according to the Associated Press, adding that he had never before met Mayweather in person, although they have previously talked on the phone and Pacquiao once appeared on one of Mayweather’s undercards in 2001.
Asked to clarify if the exchange meant the two would negotiate directly about meeting in the ring, Pacquiao said that was the case.
“We did meet and chat but I don’t I want to say what we discussed,” Michael Koncz, Pacquiao’s adviser, who was with them, said when reached by ESPN.com on his cell phone during halftime. “It was a private discussion. They had a private, friendly discussion and that’s all I really want to say.”
Koncz said their presence at the game together was “purely a coincidence.”
The Heat had some fun with their presence at the game, putting them up on the big board like a split married couple while the words “coming in 2015?” float over top:
https://twitter.com/MiamiHEAT/status/560243407852171265
I think I’d still watch this fight, but I certainly don’t have the spirit for it like I did a few years ago. Mayweather’s real life issues have really tarnished his in-the-ring “bad guy” persona and Pacquiao has always been a little dry to me. Throw in those losses against Marquez and Bradley and my excitement level just plummets.
There’s still plenty of time to get pumped up for the fight, though. Boxing is just known to disappoint more than it succeeds, even with a great build up (ask David Haye about that).
