Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Jayjg ^(talk) 02:08, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao

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A PROD tag was removed without any apparent improvement. This match is "in negotiation"; Wikipedia is not a crystal ball. Only two of the references are directly about the topic and both specifically state that negotiations have just begun; the remainder is speculation. Accounting4Taste:talk 20:26, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Besides the fact that this is only a PROPOSED fight (as the nominator said, the management of both sides are still discussing a fight, nothing has been finalized), I am not sure the notability of single fights. Also possible COI as the creator of the article is User:MoneyMayweather17 and their only edits are to this article. TJ Spyke 21:00, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I would also like to add that there are some large copyright violations. The first 2 paragraphs are just copied from the first source (Yahoo Sports), and a couple of the other ones appear to be just copy and pasted too. TJ Spyke 21:07, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:02, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, doesn't appear to have significant coverage. Muhammad Ali versus Sonny Liston this is not. Nyttend (talk) 02:46, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And for the final nail in the coffin: the fight has been called off by Pacquiao's side because he refuses to take a drug test (which seems suspicious to me, especially since BOTH fighters would have had to be tested) [1]. TJ Spyke 17:12, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.