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So, in other words, the great boxing 'historian' Larry Merchant, who uses his air time on HBO broadcasts to consistenly chastise fighters for things like not making the fights nor doing the things that could 'save' boxing, would rather use this scenario to hypothesize about why Mayweather would blow a payday than discuss the actual ramifications of the current p4p fighter using performance enhancing drugs and the utter disgrace that it would be to the sport that he (Merchant) professes to love so much. And some of y'all, through your own insane dislike of Mayweather, applaud this ridiculousness. One would think that Larry Merchant, defender of Boxing, would be screaming from the rooftops to run any and all cheats out of the sport. Instead, Larry Merchant is more concerned with taking a shot at Mayweather than discussing cleaning up the sport. Read Merchant's quote again and tell me how it can be interpreted any other way. Sad indeed.
http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2010/01/03/hbos-larry-merchant-on-floyd-mayweather-manny-pacquiao/ FH: So you still believe that Floyd Mayweather is playing mind games? Merchant: I thought that it was gamesmanship because I didn't see anything to be won by this. If you think that he's been using illegal substances, do you want him called out before the fight and revealed and blow the whole deal? I never got the point of all of this. The story about somebody saying that somebody came to him and said, 'Can we conceal this?' That's more craziness. I find it hard that anybody would have even thought of that. Once you do this is public, that's, to me, even more strangeness and weirdness. FH: So what do you believe is the point of the drug-testing? Merchant: If it's not gamesmanship, then what they're really saying is that 'Nobody can be as good as Manny Pacquiao unless he's helped by something.' Maybe it reflects on Floyd Mayweather. Even if he believes that he's going to win, maybe he think that there's a chance that he won't. Again, from things that he's said in the past, to him, losing is worse than death because he's wrapped his identity up so much in the idea of not losing the fight. He's used that to try to deflect all of the criticism that has come his way from the boxing world and in the boxing media that he has avoided all of the real top welterweights to fight smaller guys. Being undefeated is so important to him, that maybe there's a part of this that expresses or reflects his concern. :deal
atsch obviously you didnt get what he was saying. hes asking why the change of mind all of sudden. floyd did say that he can beat pac, so why all this ridiculous demands for someone he claim he can beat so easy? it doesnt make sense. if anything he should fight him since it will give him a good pay day, steroids or not, since he can beat him so easily (as he claims). hes trying to get in floyds thought, hes not saying its okay that pacs cheating. for the record he doesnt think pac is cheating if you look at the whole interview.
Fighters moving up 3-5 weight divisions have been here since the beginning of boxing. No one ever demanded blood testing. Not haglar, not leonard, not bhop, not ceferino garcia and the other welterweights Hank fought. How and why all of a sudden they want to test pacman? because FMJ said so? No ****ing way! FMJ is not above boxing. I think it has become an ego thing. Floyd asked for blood testing, Pac gave in to that request (good on his part). Floyd asked for more, Pac didn't give in this time.
The same can be said for Pac. If Pac feels like he's gonna win, and thinks this is a ploy from PBF just to duck him, take the fuking test then! Fuk man
the only answer is that floyd is ducking. this is what people dont get. floyd has been saying that he will beat pac even before the steroid accusation. why would he need pac to take a test when he knows he can beat him? the only reason i can think of him asking the test is that he thinks pac can beat him (which hes never admitted before) or that hes ducking him (something hes done before agains other elite fighters).
please expand. this logic doesnt make sense at all. the problem is that floyd has claimed that he can beat pac easily, but asks for all this blood test? how can you say the same for pac?
your one in the world who only knows how to write but don't know how to think or understand....i'm very sorry for you...
atsch cmon man. deeta's got some point. Larry merchant's comments (regarding this doping issue) is far more credible than Floyd Sr or Malignaggi.
If the shoes fits. I understand what Larry is saying, but the same can be said for Pac. He's in the same boat for throwing away a mega fight, the biggest in his life worth millions, because he's opting to not take a simple test Floyd is asking. If floyd is really ducking him, take the test and let's all watch Floyd create another bs obstacle for pac. Then we will know he's really ducking Pac. For now, what I see, is PBF is simply concerned that Pac is on something and wants to ensure this mega-fight unfolds on a fair playing field. Big deal? Floyd wants this fight to be fair. Wouldn't you?