Pac is fighting the guy who lost who the guy he just beat

10 million dollar per pound penalties, and ring sizes, and glove weights, and catchweights and many other things aren't standardized either, but are decided in the contract. This was simply an addition to the contract. They couldn't agree and no contract was signed. Saying that the NSAC didn't require it is utterly irrelevant, as it was a contractual issue between the two fighters.

 

This x 32740834983034

Some of you fans are ******s, Pacman is at an unprecedented rate right now and you're calling him a cherry picker? I'm sure you'd probably **** on a lambo because you wanted a ferrari too.

We're talking about an ex flyweight champion fighting a monster like clottey here.

Be happy with what you got you bunch of sad ****s calling him a cherry picker.

 

It is far from cherrypicking, but not near as meaningful as a fight with Mayweather.

 

But he has to weigh in a pound less than Cotto had to.....:yep

 

Right! And GBP bosses didn't allow Mosley to undergo the same test they wanted Pac to take and nobody raised a howl but that is beside the point. The fact remains that no professional boxing body had adopted random blood testing as it's standard test for banned substance.

 

I just read that there will be no catchweight, I stand corrected.

 

do you really need to have a phd to see that boxing procedure needs to be improved, i mean look at what margarito did, mosley, vargas and now maybe pacquiao(and think of how many things have sliped through the radar).
boxing is a sport that is supposed to be fought on perfectly equal playing feilds, now i know that perfect is impossible but refusing to take steps closer to perfect just becouse its a bit of an inconvenience is just plain stupid (honestly how much would random, extensive drug tests with a 2 or 3 week cut off date for a major fight really hurt someone)
also how do you know ESB dosent have any doctors, i bet we got at least one or two:yep

 

Thank you very much! atsch

 

What an absolutely ******ed question. Of course not. Anyone who voted "yes" are ******ed themselves. I can see there are 25 of them so far.

 

Clottey is coming of a loss to the guy Pac just recently demolished.
He is also from Arum's stable and will not ask for random testing and probably aquiesce to all of Pac/Arum's stipulations.

He brings nothing to the table but his durability.



So YES he is being cherry-picked.


That being said, it should be a fun fight to watch and I'm not missing it

 

heck no!!! u cherry pick guys who pose no threat. clottey beat cotto when they fought and clottey is a beast. he's waay stronger than cotto or any other 147er out there. but i think manny will still beat him. people love manny cause he choses fights that he shouldnt. u cant say the same 4 floyd, in my opinion. 4 example, floyd shouldve fought cotto a long long long time ago. pac should have never fought cotto b4 floyd, but manny did. and floyd beat jmm who was way above his weight. not impressive.

 

Testing for banned substance is in the domain of the state commission and is always relevant. Any boxer fighting in a given country or state should submit to the test required by the state commission and not to any test demanded by some insecured boxers. Any weight within the lower and upper limit of any division which is commonly called catchweight is still within the standard. Other conditions being decided in the negotiation such as ring sizes, glove weights, etc where certain standards had been set need to be sanctioned by appropriate body/ies.

 

Anyone thinking Clottey is a cherry pick for Pacquiao speaks volumes about the level of skill and power that you attribute to pacquiao. There is no other <147 pound fighter that you could utter the same words (cherry pick & clottey) in the same sentence besides pacquiao.

 

I can see your point and found it really reasonable. I can't disagree but if the procedure should be improved, it should come from thorough study where efficiency is maximized while negative effect, physiological or psychological to the boxers is minimized. And any new procedure before it could be applied should be pre-tested, officially adopted and published widely and must be applied without exemption.

 

Floyd had really mastered the art of ducking where he can duck a fighter while making it appear that it's the said fighter who's ducking him!