Manny Pacquiao is scared of needles...

I think top level boxing should be subject to stricter drug testing, I just don't see why it should start with this fight just because the Mayweathers say so. "Tail wagging the dog" and all that.....

I'm sure Mayweather believes he can win but he must know if he loses then its a big knock on his legacy whereas a loss for Pac will probably be treated less harshly (rightly or wrongly).

 

This fight ain't happening mate. I think people need to get used to that.

 

I'll bookmark this thread.

I'd happily sport an Audley Harrison avatar for life if this fight doesn't happen.

 

I don't think Pac's main complaint is being afraid of needles anyway...

 

If the situation stayed like this and the fight didn't happen, who would you blame? Team Pac or Team Mayweather?

 

I'd blame them both for being idiots. One of them should swallow their pride. But ultimately its Mayweather's demand outside of any demand he himself has ever made or that any actual boxer in history that can I remember has made that is holding up the whole thing. Based on little more than Pac being good and his crackhead father's wild accusations.

 

Mayweather. He's the one asking for long standing rules to be changed, just for one of his fights.

If the fight doesn't happen on March 13th it never will. Pac is very keen to run for office and, if he wins, it's very likely he won't fight again.

 

Yeah, thats my take on it. Pacs intransigence is annoying (and, lets be honest, opens himself up for allegations of wrongdoing) but Mayweather is the guy asking for something thats never happened before in the sport.

 

Do you think Pacquiao will succeed in politics?

I know the Pinoys are rabid for him..... but could you imagine a British equivalent (in history) ever gaining a high ranking position?

I know Sebastian Coe became an MP but he wasn't a professional sportsman..... I'm trying to think of very popular sportsmen/women - imagine Ian Botham becoming PM?

At least beer would be cheap

 

That's it, pigeon hole me because it suits your agenda. You don't even know what you're talking about with regards to the tests, so it's pointless us discussing this further. You clearly don't know all the facts.

 

Two words my friend, Marion Jones. Jones never failed the tests provided by the Olympic Committee. However, by her own admission, she was using the very drugs the committee was charged with finding.

This has nothing to do with Pac using drugs. This has everything to do with giving FM an advantage. It is his way of trying to do to Pac what he did to JMM. "Level plaining field" my eye.:-(

 

And you are a Mayweather apologist if you think its fine and dandy for Mayweather to request something that nobody in history has done as if its perfectly reasonable. It's something I'm all for if its brought in across the board but on Mayweather's say so? Hell no.