I know what this thread is going to turn in to but it needs to be asked anyway. Do people on this form not find it crazy that we missed out on the biggest fight of out generation over blood test? Baseball, football, Lance Armstrong, Basketball, I mean all these sports are dirty and had testing in place. Really no fight ever blood test? Really? This should of been the last reason this fight didn't happen unless of course someone was dirty. Just crazy to me. Biggest duck ever by Arum and Pac even though in the end I thought Pac wanted the fight but not until like the last year. Just sad:|
Pac and Arum never wanted the fight. Making up excuses like "An economy problem, needles, drug tests, 40 million too little ETC ETC ETC" No one gives a **** about him. KTFO6. He should retire, no one cares about him anymore. He's no longer even the top 5 p4p
I think a way for boxing to have more control of who fights who is to have each world boxing organization collaborate to have to the top 2 p4p fighters in a close weight class to fight each other when demand is high or have them stripped of their belts. The p4p rankings would be determined by the ring magazine.
Pac fought a couple of times without PEDs as a trial and didn't like the results. Hence, fight never happened.
History will start to look a little better on Mayweather. My favourite one was Bob Arum, 'We need to build an out door stadium' atsch
It is a shame I think we have to look at the Lance Armstrong situation and realise that here is a guy who was idolised by millions of people and until several years AFTER the case he was found guilty of cheating by USADA. (By the way that is THE same USADA that people were accusing of covering up for Floyd.) At which point he didn't put his hands up and admit what he had been doing but claimed that it was in actual fact a witch hunt. This is cycling that probably has the best testing of any sport and they were not able to catch him, and look at his admission: he took PEDS, Steroids, blood transfusions etc he took every type of drug there was and it was still undetectable and this was many years ago. So imagine how more advanced PEDS have become since.... Now Im not accusing Manny Pacquiao of anything but to turn down the tests is absolutely crazy, boxing drug testing is an absolute joke and everyone knows it. He will forever be remember as that guy who turned them down.....no one can ever be sure he was clean, no matter how much of a nice guy he is had he just taken the tests this wouldn't be an issue.
The difference being, in cycling USADA is employed by the international cycling body that's relentless in pursuing cheats. In boxing they're employed by a promotional house that stands to lose a lot of money when one of the fighters tests dirty. They also have no responsibility to the commission or any regulatory body. See the Morales situation.
Yeah I am just really being serious in that this should of never been something that kept the fight from happening. Just ironic all the people who felt Pac was disrespected by PBF are the same ones crying wolf on JMM. Karma is crazy in life just saying. Arum is POS plain and simple. Pac showed he wasn't his own man by hiding behind his promoter the same way a kid would hide behind his mom. Just a ***** move plain and simple.
There is always a 'difference' in an apologists mind, the fact; is they want to catch all cheats....(the higher profile the better) they are not going to cover up for Floyd - a black man who probably creates more enemies than friends? If you believe they would - OK what ever makes you sleep better at night. Whatever you think of Floyd at least he took the tests, if I had to put money on who was a cheat I know which I feel more comfortable backing...
Forget Floyd, they didn't seem to wanna catch Morales, or at least didn't seem to be willing to clarify the very murky situation. Same for Quillin vs Wright. I'm surprised you don't see the difference, it's fundamental really.