Maybe Floyd Mayweather has reached a breaking point in trying to get a deal done with Bob Arum for a Manny Pacquiao fight. Who's fault is it? It could be that Arum simply can't work with the folks at Golden Boy Promotions, Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya. So who'll save the day? Believe it or not, Mayweather may be looking toward Don King to salvage the efforts for the mega-fight.
Mayweather was hanging with King a few weeks back at dinner and with cash in hand. He also made an appearance in St. Louis over the weekend, hanging with DK at the Devon Alexander-Andreas Kotelnik fight.
Yahoo! Sports' boxing writer Kevin Iole examines the possiblity that the 79-year-old King could get himself back in the mix as a major promoter.
King told Dan Rafael from ESPN.com that it's time for Mayweather to realize there's a racial element affecting his image.
King said he would make Floyd, "a people's champion and be able to create and generate more money than he's ever had before with dignity, pride and stature. Like it is now, he's being degraded, vilified, accusations, you know. Some of it goes for the hype, but when it gets to the substance of the man, the substance is not there. And they don't understand because they can't communicate with him because Floyd speaks Ghetto-ese and they don't understand because it's hieroglyphics."
Schaefer responded, criticizing the ghetto-ese talk:
"I mean, if I were Floyd Mayweather, I would frankly feel embarrassed. Floyd Mayweather has become a Madison Avenue darling who commands the respect from Fortune 100 companies. Now, he's got Don King out there talking about ghetto-ese."
Schaefer can believe whatever he wants. King has something that's attracting interest from Mayweather and we may soon see a deal that puts the old promoter back on the map.
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