Mayweather-Pacquiao: What more does Floyd have to do?
December 27th, 2009
By Manuel Perez: It’s really so disappointing how hard that Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Golden Boy Promotions have worked at making the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight happen, giving in to ring size, a 50-50 purse split, a $10 million dollar weight penalty, gloves, the date of the fight and now with the agency that’s testing the blood. With all that, Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum still won’t agree to allow blood testing from an outside agency within 30 days of the fight.
Arum is instead putting the question to the Nevada Athletic Commission for them to decide next month in their meeting. Fat chance they’ll do anything about this to allow for the extra blood testing. This means that there probably won’t be a fight, because Mayweather doesn’t want to fight Pacquiao unless there’s testing within the 30 day period before the fight, and it’s quite understandable.
If you don’t test a fighter four weeks before a fight, they can put all kinds of performance enhancing chemicals in their body during that time. I’m not saying Pacquiao is, but the testing should follow all the way up to the fight if they want to do it right and ensure that neither of the fighters are putting anything illegal in their bodies. Mayweather isn’t comfortable with no testing being down in the last four weeks of the fight.
It’s sad, because Mayweather and those guys have done a lot to make this fight happen, and it’s too bad that we’re at this point where Arum is saying that the Nevada Athletic Commission should settle this. If the commission decides against Mayweather and the extra random testing, then it’s highly doubtful that Mayweather will change his mind about wanting the testing done.
I just don’t know what else Mayweather can do to get Pacquiao in the ring. It appears that unless Mayweather gives in and backs down on this too, we won’t have a fight on March 13th. Oh, we will have a fight on that date, but it will be Pacquiao facing Paulie Malignaggi rather than Mayweather. Arum is hot after Malignaggi as a replacement for Mayweather for some odd reason. Maybe Arum sees Malignaggi as a Mayweather-like fighter and wants to get him in the ring so that Pacquiao can stay sharp for a bout against Mayweather later on in the year. But even if that happens, we’ll still have big problems with the negotiations unless Pacquiao allows himself to be blood tested randomly all the way up until the fight.
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Who said manny doesn’t want blood testing,he agreed to it but not anytime or near the fight date. He is most willing to take blood testing right after the fight and they still don’t agree. Don’t set your own rules and don’t pretend to be a doctor who know everything.
Again, Manuel Perez has got to be one of the biggest Pacman haters on the planet. I wonder if it’s because he’s a Marquez fanatic???
Will Perez ever admit that he’s been wrong on his comments and predictions? I hope not. Let Pacman teach him and the Mayweathers a lesson in the ring. “Talk less, make less mistakes.” Pacman
Mayweather will look for something that put Manny psychologically affected by their demands, Manny is playing in a way that this demand must not happen for the sake of mind games that Mayweather’s camp started. Everybody knows Manny is clean, the only question is that, why Manny has the speed and strength that enable him to demolish his opponents in due time. This question has prompted that made them so scared, much more if it’s proven beyond reasonable doubt. At this point, if the bout happens now, Manny has an upperhand and Mayweateher eventually will be on his trembling knees begging for mercy. Manny is trying to convey that no matter what, Mayweather’s camp must not place the commission rule in their hands to control the process.
What can POOR MAYWEATHER do to get Pac in the ring? Floyd gets on the phone. He calls Bob Arum. He agrees to fight at 147 lbs, for 50% of the purse with stringent drug testing including 3 blood tests above and beyond what would be considered “normal” for this fight.