Boxing: Mayweather avoids Pacquiao talk

HOLLYWOOD: Floyd Mayweather had nothing to say about Manny Pacquiao at a news conference to promote his fight against Miguel Cotto. Two days after he said Pacquiao was not ‘one of the sharpest knives in the drawer’, Mayweather insisted he just wanted to talk about his super-welterweight world-title fight against Cotto on May 5. Mayweather was also reluctant to discuss New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin but said he had no regrets about recent Tweets in which he said rising NBA star Lin was getting ‘all the hype because he is Asian’.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 3^rd, 2012.