By not agreeing to the test, Pac deserves all the suspicion laid upon him. And...

If that's the case, why the HELL are so many people criticising PBF for what they deem to be a "***** move".

Granted, when PBF (and others) initially made the suggestion it ws probably more out of hope than expectation and true belief. The comments were probably mainly to unsettle Pac, which is a bit pathetic. Yet unexpectedly, there seems to be something in it, and people are still claiming that PBF just wants to avoid Pac. If there even a suggestion that there's any truth to the allegations, then PBF is more than entitled to opt out of the fight.

People are also bitching because this is the first time that PBF has asked for the kind of rigorous drug testing to be implemented for an opponent. Well it's something that should have been done FAR before now on all fighters and therefore no-one should have a problem with it if both fighters are taking the same series of tests. If this furore is going to end up with stricter drug testing from here on in, good. There is NO room for drug cheats in boxing, no matter how popular they are.

Oh yes, and anyone mentioning Mosley getting away with it is just basically saying that Pac should be allowed to do the same, which is just plaing wrong. I don't know too much about Mosley's Balco scandal, I've paid even less attention to that than the current Pac case.

 

If Manny is not guilty, he should just take whatever testing those responsible for this type of thing decide to implement, and when they decide to do it. It shouldn't be any kind of big deal at all.

 

This type of testing should have been done long ago, but it hasn't. So therefore, if people actually want the sport to be clean and not potentially littered with cheats, then the stricter testing will obviously have to start somewhere - so why not here?

 

I haven't been reading the board thoroughly, it may not be the consensus at all. The board was littered with 'Pac is guilty' threads when I woke up, including from Pac fans who were having second thoughts about his innocence. From that I made an assumption without having read a single thread today.

 

I've been 100% certain since the concept of a Pac/PBF fight was dreamed up that the fight would never happen. If it wasn't this drug thingamijig, it would be something else. Both parties probably should move on, but the accusations against Pac sure as hell aren't going to go away now. And rightly so.

 

So if people avoid proving definitively one way or the other whether they are guilty of whatever they have been accused of when they have the opportunity to do so, they should be automatically seen as innocent anyway?

It works in most aspects of law, but not in sports.