{"id":12599,"date":"2012-02-02T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2012-02-02T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T20:38:11","slug":"mayweather-gets-license-for-may-5-fight-vs-cotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12599","title":{"rendered":"Mayweather Gets License For May 5  Fight Vs. Cotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 \u00a0<strong>Floyd Mayweather Jr<\/strong>. got almost everything he wanted Wednesday, receiving a boxing license and naming an opponent and a date for his next fight.<\/p>\n<p>The unbeaten champion got everything except a showdown with <strong>Manny Pacquiao<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather<\/strong> will fight <strong>Miguel Cotto<\/strong> on May 5 at Las Vegas\u2019 MGM Grand Garden after Nevada\u2019s athletic commissioners granted him a conditional license for one fight before he goes to jail in June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather<\/strong> (42-0, 26 KOs) chose <strong>Cotto<\/strong> (36-2, 29 KOs), the respected Puerto Rican champion, as his next opponent only after failing to land a date with <strong>Pacquiao<\/strong>, the superstar Filipino congressman. The two sides have discussed what\u2019s likely to be the most lucrative fight in boxing history for nearly three years without reaching a deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI presented<strong> Pacquiao<\/strong> with the fight,\u201d <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> said after meeting with the Nevada commission. \u201c<strong>Pacquiao<\/strong> is blowing a lot of smoke. &#8230; He doesn\u2019t really want to fight. I gave him a chance to step up to the plate. We\u2019re talking about a $10 million fighter that I tried to give $40 million to. We didn\u2019t even talk about the back end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just happy to be fighting May 5,\u201d <strong>Mayweather<\/strong> said as he emerged from the hearing room. \u201cThey granted me one fight. I need to conduct myself like a gentleman and do everything that the court ordered and then come back in front of them and show them that I deserve to have a license for a whole year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayweather<\/strong>, a seven-time world champion in five weight classes, will turn 35 this month. He\u2019ll step up in weight against Cotto for the WBA super welterweight belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 \u00a0Floyd Mayweather Jr. got almost everything he wanted Wednesday, receiving a boxing license and naming an opponent and a date for his next fight. The unbeaten champion got everything except a showdown with Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather will fight Miguel Cotto on May 5 at Las Vegas\u2019 MGM Grand Garden after Nevada\u2019s athletic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}