Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: Bob Arum's Rhetoric Continues to Hold Up Super-Fight

The camps of Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have both spent the past couple years trying to win a public relations battle to show fans they aren't the reason a super-fight hasn't happened. Nobody has been more active with verbal jabs than Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter.

After listening to Mayweather go on the offensive leading up to his victory over Miguel Cotto, Arum shot back with his most intense rhetoric yet. He compared the undefeated superstar to a Nazi who specialized in propaganda, according to a transcript from Chris Fedor of SportsRadioInterviews.com.

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For two years Pacquiao has said that he will take any drug test whoever administers it so why is that still being talked about by Mayweather? You see Mayweather is from the school of propaganda that Joseph Goebbels, who was (Adolf) Hitler’s publicist, adopted. The more you say things over and over again the more people believe them.

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While it's not an overly surprising statement from Arum considering his entire job is to make sure Pacquiao always looks strong, that doesn't make it any more acceptable. Putting Mayweather in the same category as somebody from Nazi Germany is over the top.

The constant war of words between the two sides really has become a microcosm of the direction the world has gone in recent years. Instead of working together to get a deal done, the camps would rather tear each other apart in the media and accomplish nothing.

It sounds a lot like politics and that's because it basically is. Nobody knows how Mayweather and Pacquiao truly feel about fighting each other, but they are going to keep saying it's the other person's fault regardless.

In reality, it doesn't make much sense. The money is there, the fans would love seeing them finally duke it out and the sport would receive a gigantic boost as it would become a mainstream event instead of only appealing to a niche audience.

But rather than getting together to pound out the details, Arum would rather keep slinging mud in Mayweather's direction. In the mean time, the window for getting a deal done while both boxers are still in their prime has begun to close.

Hopefully, Arum and everybody else involved in the process can finally start toning down the rhetoric and get down to business. Comments like those about Mayweather and Goebbels don't help anybody. They just push the two sides further apart.

Once Pacquiao gets done with his fight against Timothy Bradley, the focus will shift back toward the super-fight. Hopefully, this time around it's less talk and more work toward an agreement.