Pacquiao-Mayweather Arbitrator Says Both Sides Have Lied about Arbitration

All right, he didn't use the word "lie," but he might as well have.

In a rebuke to both the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps, Judge Daniel Weinstein has issued a Corrective Order to clear up what he claims is "misinformation" about the process and outcome of the arbitration just completed on Wednesday.

(UPDATE: MAYWEATHER SAYS "I WANT TO WHIP HIS PUNK ASS" IN PRESS RELEASE)

The basis of the press release is to correct facts that aren't true. Weinstein's statement claims that:

"The parties and their representatives authorized that, if misinformation was disclosed to the press by either side, the Mediator would correct any erroneous information."

The Judge lists the following as corrections:

Both parties participated in the mediation in good faith. Both parties participated in many hours of negotiation, with a number of proposals issued by each side and carefully considered by the parties and their representatives.

The Mediator himself did not formulate, recommend or issue a Mediator's Proposal. The Mediator did not make an evaluation or finding that any one of the many proposals considered by the parties was the correct protocol.

Any attempt to characterize the mediation process as an acceptance or rejection by any of the parties of a mediator's or an arbiter's proposal or of any specific proposal is false.

In the end, the parties could not agree on a testing protocol acceptable to all.

The Bottom Line: the Judge didn't recommend a blood testing protocol, didn't endorse one and neither side accepted or rejected any one particular proposal. He was there as a messenger and counselor, not to take a position that one side's arguments were better than the other.

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Comments

[dolphy]

10:23 AM on 01/11/2010

mayweather also fighting on March 13. pacquiao ppv = 1,000,000; mayweather ppv viewers 250,000. mayweather says he's the money man but he will soon find out he's just tagging along with the pacquiao gravy train

[johnr456]

03:04 AM on 01/08/2010

How the heck can you write that? The judge just made statements about the mediation process. And only that they could not agree about testing.

They didn't talk for 'two days' to walk away 30 - 24 days testing. Give me a freaking break! They threw more crap in the room than that. More than likely there was stuff proposed and rejected regarding the Defamation Law Suit and had to walk away with a cover story. The gag order is binding and they aren't going to be flinging crap in the media after walking away from a two day meeting to get penalized. Too much money for that.

[faceplant]

01:13 AM on 01/08/2010

Mayweather is hoping that Paquiao's move up in weight is steroid-fueled. Then, if testing prevented the doping, he'd either come in for the fight much smaller or much softer, and Mayweather would have a decided size and power advantage, as he did vs. Marquez. Mayweather is defensively slick enough that despite a long boxing career, his face is almost unmarked. He could probably hold his own against heavyweights. However, he is risk-averse to the point where he will never meet anyone with even close to his ability on anything like even terms. Oh, well. Boxing is a brutal, ugly sport that should probably be outlawed. It's cruelty to animals when we let pitbulls tear each other up.

[dennissinned]

10:58 PM on 01/07/2010

Mayweather is just playing mind games.