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Mayweather camp: Pacquiao declines Olympic drug testing, fight in jeopardy

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

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The camp of Floyd Mayweather Jr. is claiming Manny Pacquiao is declining Olympic-style drug testing for their tentatively scheduled March 13 megafight, with Mayweather representatives going as far to say the bout is in “jeopardy” because of Pacquiao’s stance.

Pacquiao has communicated that he’d be willing to give a blood sample only at the kick-off news conference 60 days before the fight, and after the bout, Mayweather representatives claim.

Mayweather’s father, Floyd Sr., stated publicly earlier this year that he’d discourage his son from fighting Pacquiao because he suspects the Filipino superstar is using performance-enhancing drugs.

Mayweather’s promoter, Richard Schaefer, said he was told earlier today by a Pacquiao promoter that Pacquiao “has difficulty taking blood and doesn’t want to do it so close to the fight.”

Mayweather responded, “It is our responsaibility to subject ourselves to sportsmanship at the highest level.”

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com


Readers Comments

  1. junnex of panabo philippines says:

    If Mayweather-Pacquiao fight will not happen this march 13 2009,what do you think is the reason?

    A) Its because pacquiao will be disqualified for the alleged using of steroids?

    B) Its because Mayweather Jr. is just afraid to pacquiao that’s why Mayweather’s camp is looking for a way for a bout not to happen.

    what do you think is your answer?

  2. eli mejia says:

    1. If Pacquiao is using drugs as bloated by the American sports media from the suspicion and mere wild imagination of Floyd Mayweather, will not a blood test conducted 30 days before the fight and immediately thereafter disclose it?
    2. Is the Nevada Athletic Commission’s drug testing system competent to determine if a boxer is using or have used drugs?
    3. If the answers from these two queries are both positive, what’s the necessity and purpose from all these Mayweather gang’s demands?

    How cunning!. .it’s a lose-lose situation for Pacquiao. If he concedes, Mayweather being the naturally bigger man, will definitely be stronger if both were blood-drained just before the fight. If Pacquiao justifiably reject such unjust demand which was never a requirement of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, he will be pictured by the biased American Sports Media who naturally, favors Mayweather, as indeed using drugs or put germs in the mind of the boxing fans leading to that malicious and unfounded contention. It will also put an expected valid reason for Mayweather to quit the fight while maligning the great achievements of Pacquiao. The American Press is indeed a biased lot and a sore loser from one of their own.

  3. Sante says:

    The Nevada commission had been running the test all-time and its the standard! WTF is the difference with floyds fight to marquez and all its fight… SCARED of pacman… whooaaah! get real… take-off the shit off your face… you sr. shit head show on hatton’s now your shitting your face again!!! whoooaah! & jr. have history on shitting off the scale… WTF you MF! i want my bet on jr. fights and wins without shit holes! thats it… i want to see pacman down by jr… clear and clean, no excuses… without goliath setting terms on david… capisce?! lets get it on man!

  4. joe says:

    mayweather is a freaking chicken, what’s the difference taking the blood sample right after the bout??? do you actually think if pacquiao is taking performance-enhancing drugs that his blood will be clear out of the drugs right after the bout??? this is BS!!!! mayweather is just looking for any excuse to get off this fight, he’s a big p***y!!! it just shows you how afraid he is to fight pacquiao and everybody knows it, mayweather has nothing else going for him other than having an unbeaten record, that’s about it!!! he likes to fight old washed up boxers like gatti, dela hoya, and marquez… there are only two common things between pacquiao and mayweather, that’s ricky hatton and oscar dela hoya, everybody knows how pacquiao destroyed both these two while mayweather, although beat them, was not as impressive… boxing fans all over the world should be pissed off at this mayweather act… all i can say is that mayweather should stop looking for excuses on how to get out of fighting manny and just start training!!!