Boxing has been disgraced by both guys, and from this post on, I won't write...

I'm glad that many of you agree. I loved watching both fighters, but right now, I don't, and I won't watch or talk about either of them in any positive light until they face each other. I'm a man of my word. I will not watch either mans next fight.

If one goes on to fight Clottey, and then Margarito, and the other goes on to fight Cintron and someone else...than I'll just go back to looking for potential future talent, and will just watch their fights...and wait until the big fight is made rather than talk about the possibility of those big fights. I truly thought that this fight would be made in the 23rd hour. PAC, FLOYD, ARUM, ROACH, HAYMON, ELLERBE...the fans and myself say...**** ALL OF YOU...!!!

 

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Many excellent points in this post by Big Reg based off his opinion and RipCity's opinion. Both are to blame, only I don't blame one more than the other. People have chosen sides, and I have not. It takes 2 to tango.

Originally Posted by BigReg
Ripcity makes an excellent point which of course is being largely ignored. The fact of the matter is, Floyd has weighed in over 147 lbs. one time and that was when he weighed in at 150 lbs. for a 154 lb. fight. There is no logical reason to believe that he would weigh in over 147 lbs. when he weighed in at 146 lbs. for his last fight. Yes, that was 2 lbs. over the agreed upos 144 lb. limit, but he hasn't been that light in several years and he hadn't fought in almost two years.

There was a much greater chance of Oscar not making 147 lbs. against Pac considering he hadn't done it in several years and considering there was no title on the line. Despit this, and despite the fact that Oscar has more money than Floyd, a penalty of $1 mill per lb. was insittuted. In this fight, you have a fighter who already supposedly has money problems, made 146 lbs. just a few months earlier, and there would've been a title on the line. Quite simply put, a weight penalty was completely unneccesary all things considered. And even still, the $10 mill penalty was 10 times greater than any weight penalty ever insituted. You can't tell me a $1 or $2 mill penalty wouldn't have been enough.

Team Pac basically proposed a completely ridiculous clause that they expected Team Mayweather to reject(this is what people are claiming Mayweather did with the blood testing.) Maybe it was because they didn't want the fight, or maybe they planned to use the rejection as a reason to reject the blood testing. This backfired as Mayweather agreed without issue. Now Team Pacquiao agreed to the blood testing only to come up with a ridiculous proposal of a 30 day window weeks later(incidently, this counterproposal only came about after Mayweather accepted their weight penalty). Not only that, but they rejected a fair comprimise of 14 days by Mayweather and also lied about Mayweather offering 14 days(keep in mind that Pac is on record as saying he didn't want to be tested within days of the fight and that Roach said they would accept a 7 day window).

Both guys are at fault here, but Team Pacquiao is more at fault. Had they simply rejected the blood testing from the outset, they would be at no fault. It seems that Team Pac has done everything thing they could to make this fight fall apart. The fact that they accepted, then tried to change the terms of the blood testing, then rejected a counterproposal which they earlier claimed they would accept makes them look really bad. Not only that, but they keep putting out condradictary statements, they've flat out lied, and they have filed a lawsuit against Mayweather.

 

And for those of you who still think fighters are scared of each other...peep this:



On being called scared, a bum, or coward by fans :
MARCUS RHODE: It doesn’t bother me because the simple fact is half these guys have never put the leather on, they have never been hit, never been nothing. It doesn’t bother me because all they can do is run their mouth because if they could get in the ring they would have gotten in there...

 

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WTF...!!!???:nut