Manny interview about blood test 2 DAYS before 2005 fight

Translation from youtube:

Interviewer: ...now this blood test they're talking about. This is what I don't understand. Why do you have to take a blood test 2 days before the fight? Then here in Manila, news have spread that the fight may not happen, because the Nevada Commission insisted that these tests must be submitted or else they would not grant a permit or recognize this fight. So what happened?

Pacman: Well this is what happened. So 1 month before the fight, they rushed me to undergo a medical exam which the Nevada Athletic Commission (NSAC) had required. Since this was needed by the NSAC, I needed to undergo a medical exam to fulfill this requirement. So I underwent a medical exam 1 month before the fight. Everything was completed...

Interviewer: Even the blood test?

Pacman: .. Yes even the blood test. So when everything was said and done, I resumed back to my training. So here I was...reducing for tomorrow's weigh-in and 2 days before the fight. Since I have to weigh-in tomorrow, I have been reducing...I didn't drink, I didn't hydrate...so I can meet the weight. On that day, NSAC called and required me to submit a blood test for my medical. I told them that I have completed this test already. My camp reacted, Freddie Roach and my manager. NSAC informed us that the doctor lost my medical records.

Interviewer: They lost it!?

Pacman: They lost it. They lost my medical records.

Interviewer: Ok. So first and foremost, whose fault is it? Is it the hospital? Your manager or maybe one of your team members since they didn't follow up or verified that this has been submitted?

Pacman: It's puzzling. Why would NSAC not have copies of my medical records when they even rushed me in getting this done 1 month into the fight...and why 2 days into the fight for me to re-submit one?

Interviewer: So word got here in the Philippines that your team have been pointing fingers and putting blame on each other...

Pacman: Well you know..I spoke to a doctor at another hospital and told me that it's impossible to have my medical records completely lost because those records would have also been stored in a computer.

Interview: So you didn't further investigate as to who was at fault for this? Or was it imbedded that the hospital, in general was at fault?

Pacman: Well for sure the hospital was at fault but we didn't have the time to investigate further...it was 2 days into the fight. But you know that I had my doubts about this..

Interviewer: ...that it's one of the tactics?

Pacman: Yes. It's one of their tactics...but did you know when I had my blood drawn that day...30 min later I felt dizzy and felt some pain at the back of my neck. I was instructed after getting my blood drawn to re-hydrate. But you know I can't hydrate!? You know I can't eat!? [because of the weigh-in]. So what I did instead was I lay down and had my neck massaged.

Interviewer: So by fight time, did you really felt that you were weak?

Pacman: For sure I did. Those punches that were landing on Morales...it came into my mind that if this is all the power I can deliver...I won't be able to KO him out.

Interviewer: Well you know that when they interviewed Morales after the fight, he said that he didn't even feel the sting of your punches..

Pacman: Well I like it that way because he doesn't have a clue that those punches were not packed

Interviewer: So you'll let him feel the sting for this next fight then...(laughing)[end]

 

umm no. that headbutt that had you bleeding like a stuck pig was what weakened him. and eric Morales's jab in the mid rounds..

 

The point being this interview was taken AFTER the Morales fight, and regardless of what really cause him to be weak, his perception is that the blood withdrawal was the problem. So this is not a superstition he has developed overnight.

:deal

 

I have a feeling Camp Mayweather knew about this inside information and this is what prompted their inflexible blood test demands. Smart calculated move by Camp Floyd. *golf clap*

 

Give me a break. They "lost" his initial blood test results because he would've tested full of steroids. They knew the NSAC would have to test him again close to the fight when the steroids were already flushed from his system. It also gave Pac a ready made excuse incase he lost to Morales. C'mon people, it's obvious.

 

thisa is not about pac being disadvantaged, he does not want to side with floyd and is pissed that floyd accused him of using steroids, nobody accuses floyd of using steroids and as money stated they were ther same weight 106 at the same age. He feels unfairly targeted, this is shown by him suiing, if i was him just din't take tests a week before the fight then, but make them random throough out. Plu he does not need to cut any weight now he is welterweight.

 

They don't test that blood for drugs, only diseases like HIV etc. So the only conclusion to be logically drawn here is that Pacquiao snuck into the hospital, stole his HIV positive blood sample then underwent the Magic Johnson AIDS-away medical treatment, clearing his HIV up in 4 weeks where he could gladly supply a fresh sample, keeping his name clean and his boxing license intact.

 

Owned

 

Yes of course! lol!

 

Imagine not being able to feel 100% before a fight, especially going into the biggest fight of your life. Of course you would not accept terms that can hinder you from being at optimal performance, when you've experienced the downsides of it. If any person experienced such an ordeal, they would decline such an approach made from the opposition. Some throw the argument about the "10 million" ( I give credit to Mayweather's camp for accepting this; he could have refuted this or even bargained for a lesser penalty but he didn't) for every pound over being just as big of a deal, but in reality it's not, as a fighter you have to make weight; not give random blood tests, it just hasn't been done.

But the fighter(in this case Pacquiao) who was cornered into taking these tests, even with having this background, tried to meet Mayweather at a neutral point by accepting to take blood tests but not just too close to fight day. That's a pretty big step by accepting something he doesn't even have to do; it shows he wanted this fight. If Mayweather wanted this fight, he would also try and give in a bit too for the sake of this fight and for boxing in general.

More than individual athletes are being hurt in this ordeal, boxing as a whole is.

 

OFCOURSE hes weakened he has to drop the steroids a day before the blood test

 

That's right, it was a medical. My mistake. The scenario you've described makes more sense.

 

If this doesn't shut the 'screaming roid gang' the hell up nothing will.

 

His excuse for losing to morales back then was the gloves, everlast over reyes gloves now its blood .

 

I bet a 100 dollars that the *******s are lying like ****. Nobody speaks that shitty lingo anyway so who are we to say. Fake ass rebuttal to an obvious lying mother****er.