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Mayweather: “Pacquiao didn’t want to take a $25 million dollar drug test”
Published on: 9th February, 2010
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In an interview at Sportsradiointerviews, undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. commented on why he thinks his March 13th mega fight with Manny Pacquiao went down the drains. Mayweather says “Manny Pacquiao didn’t want to take a 25 million dollar drug test. I had a clause that I wanted and he [Pacquiao] had a clause that he wanted. His clause, what he wanted, was every pound that I weighed over 147, they wanted me to pay ten million dollars. I said no problem, each pound I’ll pay ten million dollars, my clause for him was for us both to take random blood tests. The only thing that I’m trying to do is clean up the sports period.”
Mayweather has a point here. He did agree to Pacquiao’s part of the contract for the ten million dollar penalty. This is something that would have likely hurt Mayweather much more than Pacquiao, because Floyd is the bigger fighter and he had recently come in over the welterweight limit for his last fight against Juan Manuel Marquez in September of 2009. Pacquiao and his team didn’t like Mayweather calling the shots with the random blood testing for a variety of reasons, one of them being that the blood testing wasn’t something that was checked by the Nevada Athletic Commission for boxing fights in the state.
Mayweather was in effect asking for something that’s not even required in the state of Nevada for fights. However, it was Mayweather’s request in the contract and something that the two could negotiate over. If Pacquiao didn’t want to take the random blood tests, then the fight was a no go.
As it was, Pacquiao eventually agreed to take the random blood tests up to a point, asking for them to be stopped 24 days before the fight. By having the tests stop 24 days before the fight, you couldn’t really consider this being random drug testing by definition since Pacquiao and his team wanted limits to the testing. It was then up to Mayweather to agree to this or not.
Mayweather says “He [Pacquiao] asked me to do one thing [talking about the ten million dollar per pound weight penalty in the contract] and I asked him to do another thing. The thing is this: a fighter before asked me ‘Floyd, if you weight this much over will you pay?’ I said yes. We’ve done it in the past. Simple as that. I asked him to do one thing. He had something that he wanted me to do and I had something that I wanted him to do. He didn’t live up to his end of the bargain. I lived up to my end of the bargain.”
In fairness to Pacquiao, the blood testing was a really tricky thing for him and not as easy as it might seem. Pacquiao believes that he is weakened when he has blood taken from his body, even small amounts of blood like the kind used for the random blood testing. This is why Pacquiao didn’t want to take the blood tests anywhere close to the fight, because it would give Mayweather an extra edge.
By: William Mackay
Source: boxingnews24.com
So is this the blueprint to beat pacquiao? All you have to do is make him bleed in the fight and he will self destruct because he is so squeamish about losing blood? If pacquiao really believes that losing blood in any manner weakens him, then I hope his current and future opponents are taking notes. Clottey are you paying attention? Make sure you turn your punches so you can open up that old scar tissue, and then it will be an easy victory for you. Pacquiao will then deviate from his game plan out of desperation and fear of weakening, so the sooner you can open his skin, the better!
The problem here is not pacquiao weakening after blood is drawn from him. The problem is Mayweather is afraid to fight pacman for fear that he will surely lose on the first round with a real fighter. Mayweather is a runner and pacman with his speed will quick catch up to this scared runner and knock him out. This has nothing to do with blood testing and everything to do with Mayweather’s fears.
Mayweather is a coward and that’s all there is to it. He knows that Pacquiao will pound him so he needs whatever edge he can get- and whatever excuse so he doesn’t have to fight. Sorry Mayweather but you’ve set yourself apart from all the boxing greats, you’ve shown you have no heart.
Pacquio is obviously on a timed performance enhancing drug plan.
I used to think Packman was just okay. Then he became really impressive. This new news about refusing random drug testing makes me realize all his wins were tainted.
It’s actually sad to think other fighters who may not have been on performance enhancing drugs had there careers sidetracked due to this guy.
pacquiao is just scared to take the drug test cuz hes on steriods think about it he jumped up 2 wieght classes pretty fast.hello somebody please drug test him for reals i dont got a grudge against him but hes not fighting fair