Conflicting Pacquiao Vs. Mayweather Drug Test Rumors
Did Manny Pacquiao Alter His Stance on Drug Testing?
ESPN has picked up a story both on their website and on their televised programming, that Manny Pacquiao has altered his stance on his proposed cutoff date for blood tests prior to the fight. When the original contest collapsed, Pacquiao had stated that 24 days before the bout would be the latest he would take his test. Then, he apparently changed his stance and said that he would take blood tests up to 14 days before the encounter.
The story from ESPN was quoting a story allegedly from Manny Pacquiao's official website, which said:
"I am willing to help the sport for the future of the sport. I do not want to see anyone cheat or cheat this sport. For that reason I am willing to consider taking blood as close as 14 days prior to the fight, as long as, my opponent does the same, and it is not a lot of blood, just enough to test. I do not want anyone having an unfair advantage where someone may get hurt. I am willing to do my part to help this sport out."
This story emerged written by Timothy James on the site MPBoxing. This of course would be a huge boost to the chances of Pacquiao vs. Mayweather taking place. However, a conflicting report has now emerged from PhilBoxing. In this report Pacquiao "vehemently denies" changing his stance on the issue of drug testing.
Pacquiao advisor Michael Koncz told the website, "He never spoke to any reporter and never heard of the guy" who wrote the story. The article continues, now quoting the author of the piece on PhilBoxing:
"Even as he maintained that he had no official website although there are people who claim that they handle his official site. Koncz quoted Pacquiao as saying he 'never talked to anybody about boxing and his main concern is campaigning and winning the election on May 10. (Floyd) Mayweather is not even in our minds or in our thoughts.'"
All of that means that as far as Pacquiao vs. Mayweather is concerned, we're in just about the same place we were before. Mayweather's stance of Olympic style testing has only been hardened by Mosley's acceptance to the terms, while Pacquiao is perhaps unchanged in his own stance. Until these reports get cleared up, it's hard to say what's true or not.
Pacquiao's upcoming election is taking precedence for the time being, and while you would think there is too much money at stake for the fight to be canned once again, that's what we all thought the first time too. We'll just have to wait and see at this point what the future holds for both Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, the top two pound for pound fighters in the sport.
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24 Comments
Post a CommentMayweather is coward. He is accusing Pacquiao as drug user but by the way he is acting, it can be concluded easily that he is a drug addict.
Floyd the COWARD is best I can describe Mayweather.Fight the best to be the best,
whats wrong with taking the test if he is not using then take the test manny dont want to take it i wonder why on it or not i dont think he will beat floyd any why i can just see all his people killing their self because they lost they whole life savings manny dont do it
i love pacquiao i wish he was fat like my husband
Mayweather simply wants to see a Pacquiao loss before he come forward and accept a fight.In the meantime,the true winner is the promoter who will rake in more and more cash for each Pacqauiao contender, and there are still several of them like Marquez,Mosley,J.Chavez Jr.I foresee a more interesting bout with these guys Vs. Manny than w/ Floyd which I predict will be a hit and run bout.Mayweather is too smart a fighter to slug it out with Pacman unless of course, he is resigned to have his alleged pretty face(?)disfigured?No pun intended!
Mayweather it is a very good boxer and all of you people who hate him please stop saying stupid stuff about him and let him decide who he want's to fight or not .Mayweather you just do what you do best and be safe man.
Performance enhancing drugs are widespread in sports. I don't have a problem with the olympic style testing. All fights should be fair and that is one way to create a level playing field. This is good for the sport.
i'm sick and tired of this drug testing shit. if mayweather suspects that pacquiao is taking performance enhancing drugs, why doesn't he do the same and let's get this thing over with. jeezz!
I'm with ya AV.
I don't know why there's even a problem with the blood test. I don't think there's anybody in the whole wide world (except for Pacquiao) who wouldn't give 4 quarts to make 40 mil in a fight with 41-0 Mayweather, Jr. Why all this hating on Mayweather? --there's talk, and more talk, and then there's the boxing match, that's all. All that other stuff is just promotion hype. Didn't anybody see how Mayweather morphed into a normal humble guy in the post-fight interview after he whupped Mosely? (I was for Mosely, BTW) Anyway who cares if Mayweather's a good guy or a bad guy? He's a gifted fighter, state of the art, the history of boxing runs right up his butt.