Floyd Mayweather declares no rematch for 'sore loser' Manny Pacquiao

Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather, who told ESPN's Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday that he would be willing to put off his planned September retirement to grant Manny Pacquiao a rematch next year, said he has changed his mind.

Floyd Mayweather has reversed course, saying he will not grant 'sore loser' Manny Pacquiao a rematch. Al Bello/Getty Images

"Did I text Stephen A. Smith and say I will fight him again? Yeah, but I change my mind. At this particular time, no, because he's a sore loser and he's a coward," Mayweather told Showtime's Jim Gray in an interview taped this week that will air Saturday night (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET) during the network's replay of last Saturday night's pay-per-view mega fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.


"If you lost, accept the loss and say, 'Mayweather, you were the better fighter,'" Mayweather continued.
Mayweather won a unanimous decision in the welterweight world championship fight that will go down as the richest in boxing history and one of the most anticipated fights ever.
After the fight, Pacquiao said he went into the ring with a right shoulder injury that hampered his performance. Pacquiao had arthroscopic surgery on Wednesday in Los Angeles to repair what his surgeon, Dr. Neal ElAttrache, termed a "significant tear" to his rotator cuff.
Pacquiao will be out of the ring for nine months to a year, but Mayweather, who planned to fight again in September in the final bout of his six-fight Showtime/CBS contract and then retire, told Smith he would fight Pacquiao in a rematch next spring once he had healed.
Mayweather (48-0, 26 KOs), however, is annoyed that Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs) and his team have blamed the loss on the shoulder injury rather than give him credit for his outstanding performance.
"I'm not going to buy into the bulls--- ... and I don't want the public to buy into the bulls---," Mayweather said. "He lost. He knows he lost. I lost a lot of respect for him after all of this."
Gray asked Mayweather if he could detect a problem with Pacquiao's right arm during the fight, to which Mayweather answered, "Absolutely not. He was fast. His left hand was fast. His right hand was fast and he was throwing them both fast and strong. Excuses, excuses."
After the fight, Mayweather said his shoulders and hands were hurt going into the fight but he didn't make excuses. He said he instead found a way to win, as he always does.

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