Mayweather, Golden Boy Set The Record Straight

I bet you GBP is. It would give Top Rank to negate their contractual interest with Pac.

Pretty sure this is why Jr, Sr and others are now limiting their comments and trying to limit it through official channels (aka press releases).

Regarding this press release - you guys can't be that gulible? Lemmings.

 

lemmings?

more like dumb rats being lead by the pied piper.

i wish they were lemmings though, so they can jump off a cliff all together.

 

Pacquiao is an absolute disgrace to the sport, and to himself.

 

And Pac and Arum would never do the same? atsch

 

SOURCE: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=22355&more=1

After a Christmas weekend filled with comments and reports related to the potential mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao

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, Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions are issuing the following statement in order to set the record straight. Let the record be clear: Manny Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum are threatening to walk away from the largest fight in history.

The fact is that random blood and urine testing was one of the many deal points and was listed along with the others, such as the financial split, the weight, financial penalty for being overweight, the appointment of the foreign sales agent, the production of the marketing assets, the gloves and many more. Team Mayweather made major concessions in many of these areas and we were optimistic that Team Pacquiao would do the same as it related to the request for random blood and urine testing, which Floyd Mayweather agreed to immediately.

It is disappointing for us to see that the benefits of blood testing and the fact that many different substances and procedures can only be detected by blood testing, are still not fully understood by all.

Their "take it or leave it" approach where blood testing would stop 30 days prior to the fight unless the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) approved differently is another indication that they may not want this fight. Pacquiao's position (and as stated on his website) is. "The truth is taking blood out of my body does not seem natural to me and mentally I feel it will weaken me if blood is taken from me just days before the fight" or he is "afraid of needles" and does not feel comfortable with blood being taken closer than 30 days before the fight is another interesting point. The fact is that he did have blood taken just 14 days prior to his fight with Ricky Hatton

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, an event which was documented on HBO's 24/7 reality show.

Also when told that Pacquiao feels that the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA

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) is an agent of Golden Boy Promotions-which is in and of itself a ridiculous accusation-we moved swiftly and made yet another concession by stating that we would be perfectly fine to retain another agency which would do the random urine and blood tests and jointly agree on a reasonable cutoff prior to the fight but which would still maintain the integrity of the results. Let it be clear that this procedure was declined by Pacquiao as was the proposal to bring in an independent mediator such as Sen. John McCain, a suggestion that was in fact embraced by Bob Arum, but also declined by Manny Pacquiao.

Let it be very clear that nobody from Team Mayweather or Golden Boy Promotions is accusing Pacquiao of anything. But the reality seems to be that for whatever reason Pacquiao does not want to participate in random blood testing, which has already been deemed a harmless procedure that many current athletes are subjected to prior to and during competition.

Team Mayweather and Golden Boy Promotions is still open to the earlier discussions of having both parties work out a mutually agreeable understanding of the testing, which would be conducted by a mutually agreed upon agency.

In closing Floyd Mayweather is one of the most decorated athletes boxing has ever seen and he is anxious to make this fight happen for all of the fans and sports enthusiasts that are asking for this fight to happen too. As you might have noticed Floyd has been silently watching and patiently waiting for the final details of the fight to get worked out. As Floyd has already stated he does not have a problem with the random procedure and will be under the same requirements as Pacquiao, it is simply hard for him to understand why there is reluctance on Pacquiao's part to agree to do the same.

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This is Team Mayweather Position!!!!

Yet Arum is constantly issuing a Press release saying: "FIGHTS OFF, WE WANT MALIGNAGGI".

THAT'S A DAMN SHAME!!!!:-(

 

Is it yesterday again?

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=195676

 

I thought Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy and Todd DuBoef of Top Rank were going to try and come to an agreed upon cutoff date for the tests. This date would undoubtedly ensure the testing would still be effective. If anyone has time you should look up the guy from BALCO's take on this issue. He said there are enhancements that you can clean out of your system in 3 days or less.

 

My bad...Some people have these things called:

WIFE, FAMILY, A PROFESSION, A MORTGAGE, HOLIDAY EVENTS....So my Thread is for those people who don't live in their parents basement and can sit at a computer 24-7-365 in their pajamas eating Ramen noodles.

So tomorrow, when I am busy with the aforementioned activities...Please continue to make me aware of what I missed....Again.

 

Personally, I have always felt that a deal would get done. THIS FIGHT IS FAR BIGGER THAN THE FIGHTERS THEMSELVES. THIS IS ABOUT PUTTING BOXING BACK IN THE MAINSTREAM...To compete with the conversations of LeBron, Kobe, The Yankees, Tiger Woods and more.

I did see the nice "BALCO" piece...very interesting.

 

Yeah I can't remember the guy's name. I think it is something Conte? If you google it I'm sure you will find it very quickly. Sucks you can't post links on this forum, oh well. This fight will get done, there is too much money on the table for it not to get done!

However, if Pacquiao is caught cheating, it would ruin the sport very badly.