Mayweather Tweets Are Test for Pacquiao
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By DERON SNYDER
There’s nothing like some good old-fashioned trash-talking to whet our appetite for a big fight. And Floyd Mayweather is doing his part to promote the one bout that every boxing fan wants to see.
Maybe he was feeling flush after claiming he won $400,000 on the Alabama-LSU game Monday night, because he began challenging Manny Pacquiao on Twitter shortly thereafter. Two tweets came within a minute of each other Tuesday afternoon.
The first one was pretty tame: “Manny Pacquiao I’m calling you out let’s fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see.” But Mayweather spiced up the second one with name-calling: “My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.”
