It's a good question... with so much room for speculation, and NO ONE has the ability to answer it and therefore probably shouldn't be asked. It could be some complicated business reason, it could be as simple as the following: Perhaps in his mind he wanted one question answered, which is the one thing he has posed publicly is will Pac submit to the FULL RANDOM testing... perhaps in his mind negotiations do not begin until this question is answered with a simple YES. Since it was NOT he may feel negotiations were not commenced whereas others, whether on his behalf or on the inside, may have felt that one point was in and of itself a negotiation point. I think it's simply a matter of perspective on behalf of the participants. But I do believe Floyd made himself crystal clear. He must hear a YES to FULL RANDOM BLOOD AND URINE TESTING, and then the negotiations will begin. That's about as clear of an answer as I think anyone can give you.
Knowing the abilities of Floyd, Haymon and the Golden Boy honchos, what Floyd said doesn't really fit in with their propensity to spin even the littlest of details to their advantage. "I am on vacation." "I don't have the urge." Floyd didn't even try to score with the media, you know, to hammer home his point about the drug testing contention with Pacquiao, and instead inexplicably mentioned those two statements above. It doesn't jive with his racist rants, some time later, against Pacquiao, coinciding with the press announcement of Pacquiao-Margarito. One has to wonder, if Floyd took the effort to malign the guy he runs second to in pound-for-pound rankings with racist diatribes, why the hell didn't he grab the chance to hammer home his drug testing demands when that second round of negos fell apart, if the reason it fell apart was Pacquiao's fault? This is what is clear about all these.
EGO my friend... EGO. (Not to speak for anyone but It's like this): " You know what I told the world after my fight with Shane, YOu know EXACTLY what it's going to require on your behalf... Tell me what I want to hear or YOU DONT EXIST.) That's all it is... Maybe you have never dealt with a super egotistical person before but it really is that way. If he does anything other than what he has done, he's now battling Pac which validates and acknowledges Pac's status. If he avoids the subject and blows it off as irrelevant he maintains his dominance. He's calling the shot perod... and he'll be damned if he even entertains anything until he gets a YES from Pac on FULL RANDOM TESTING. Mind you, I'm not saying i agree, or don't agree or anything of the sort. I'm simply answering your question, and I might ad your Poll does not contain the correct option as an answer which makes it biased. The correct answer is his EGO FORBIDS IT.
There's too many theories out there. What is confirmed is that he said WAY BACK in JANUARY that emmanuel must agree to random blood testing. He said it again on HBO PPV right after beating Mosley. emmanuel admits on 24/7 he only wanted 7 days.
^ yep. And it doesn't matter anyway , Pac says he'll agree so Floyd should call his bluff.. unless he doesn't want to fight, end of story.
If Pacquiao didn't agree to his random drug test then why Mayweather jr. didn't said it to the media, in that way he can throw the balls at Pacquiao's yard but Mayweather only response was his "urge" is missing and want to take a vacation. I don't believe in Koncz word same to Roger Mayweather.
They say a lot of things, but I go by whatever they decide to say in the most public outlet possible. I remember emmanuel kept saying he agreed to "everything" in all these low key interviews, but he didn't say he agreed to completely random blood testing after beating marg on HBO PPV. I was disappointed.
no one's really been straight up about it. too many conflicting statements from a lot of people from both camps. whatever the reason, it's been done with, it's over. best thing is to staighten things out for a third set of negotiations and hopefull everything works out.
:think What was confirmed this time around??? De La Hoya saying that the negotiations were really close. At no time when the sports media world was awaiting the results of the negotiations, did Mayweather stop a supposed lie being perpetrated on the public with Arums deadline? A person that knowing lets a lie go unchallenged is JUST as guilty as the person that told the lie. But it's obvious that it was Mayweather and his camp that were lying, as confirmed by HBO. Here's my theory. Mayweather told his negotiators to get the best deal they could out of Pacquiao. The team thought that whatever Pacquiao agreed to was reasonable, (whether a 7 days or up to the day of the fight), they ACTUALLY thought that Mayweather would have agreed. That is why Team Mayweather never denied the negotiations until AFTER the deadline. They went to Mayweather and said this was a good deal. Mayweather for whatever reason didn't want the fight. The reason that Mayweather didn't openly say that Pacquiao's OFFER wasn't good enough is because he knew that the media and the rest of the public would have thought it was a FAIR deal or COMPROMISE and thought him to be unreasonable. The rest is history. Either way Mayweather has damaged himself. :thumbsup
I remember Jeff May saying in an interview that Floyd and emmanuel still haven't agreed on testing. This was around the time top rank tried to make a deadline for Floyd. Then team emmanuel admits they only agreed to 7 on 24/7. bobby was also refusing to give anyone details on what emmanuel agreed to for testing after Floyd gave them the middle finger for the deadline.
