Will Mayweather drop the drug tests if Pacquiao drops the lawsuit?

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  1. timber

    timber Active Member Full Member

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    yep,Mayweather is looking after his own interests only. He doesnt really care about boxing or even his fans.
     
  2. bald_head_slick

    bald_head_slick Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Nobody believes that "clean up the sport" nonsense. However it is a REASONABLE request. If Pac was clean he should have no problem doing it. He agreed to it at first. Why the change of heart? :think
     
  3. bald_head_slick

    bald_head_slick Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    All boxers are looking out for their own interests. Just like you, me, and everyone else on this rock.
     
  4. Farmboxer

    Farmboxer VIP Member Full Member

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    Void will always be void.
     
  5. Irelandsthebest

    Irelandsthebest Active Member Full Member

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    This is it. I really do not believe that Mayweather is in any way doin this for boxing, he may have really believe that Pacquiao is on something but he is doin this to make sure that Pac isn't for his own sake, not to clean up this sport.
     
  6. Toontoon

    Toontoon Boxing Junkie banned

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    So team Pac are trying to blackmail Mayweather?

    Either fight us without drug testing or we will take you to court.:patsch
     
  7. eko718

    eko718 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Nah...lol... I think Freddie and them know that this lawsuit is going nowhere. Thats not a good trade off.

    I think very few believe he is looking to clean the sport up. He is suspicious of Pacquiao and if he is to fight him has a right to know he's in there with a clean fighter. These fighters put their health and livelihood on the line when they step into the ring... not the fans. It's his right to take those precautions and my guess is that this fight does not go down without a blood test. Just like Roach and Arum are putting a public spin on the issue, Mayweather is putting a public spin on it saying that he wants "to clean up to sport". Ultimately, as time goes on, Pacquiao is the one that will look worse if he continues to refuse.
     
  8. bandido

    bandido The Black Bandit Full Member

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    so you're saying that you don't watch or support any fight that does not have olympic style drug testing?
     
  9. Irelandsthebest

    Irelandsthebest Active Member Full Member

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    Yes but Freddie roach has also said that there is other ways in which the testing could be done that Manny would have no problem with, like hair. its Mayweather's persistant demand that it be blood in light of other alternatives and manny's continued stance that it weakens his body that has people saying that Mayweather is only using it to get out of the fight.
     
  10. Kush

    Kush Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The cockroach and pacroid are trying to weasel their way out of the drug test.
     
  11. sweetray

    sweetray Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Of course, since won on a split decision.
     
  12. Leon

    Leon The Artful Dodger Full Member

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    No, Mayweather originally wanted drug testing to be done. He wasn't the reactive one in this case. Floyd didn't back down the first time they threatened to take it court like a female who wants a divorce; why would he now? Especially with after all the stuff he's preached. Dropping it would make him look like a clown.

    If he keeps his stance and publicizes that emmanuel pacman is pleading with him so he can get by without testing for drugs it'll make the pac look even worse. Like he's trying to weasel his way out of something that can prove his innocence because he can't.
     
  13. eko718

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    I think Freddie was joking with the hair thing. Nevertheless, blood testing is the most effective means to test for PED's. It has been stated by many professionals in the area. Roach and Arum seem to be the only ones who think otherwise. Not difficult to imagine why. It is not Floyds 'insistence', it is Pacquiao's resistance. Doing the test wasn't the problem as he agreed initially. For some reason, 24 days will make Pacquiao less superstitious about taking blood than 14 days... that's the main issue.

    Also, the idea of him using it to get out the fight was the only firepower Roach and Arum had. All they could do is say Floyd is scared, but there are too many holes in that theory. Firstly, how would he know that Pacquiao would so vehemently refuse AFTER having already agreed? This was an ORIGINAL stipulation, not an added one. Second, if he was 'scared' to fight Manny for 40 M+, why would he fight whom many consider to be a more dangerous opponent(Mosley) for significantly less?
     
  14. Irelandsthebest

    Irelandsthebest Active Member Full Member

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    I'm not trying to defend Pac here as i feel Mayweather was much more willing to compromise than even the biggest Floyd fans would have thought, but their are reasons why a case can be made for Floyd using the drug tests as a way out of the fight or to postpone the fight as their was a video of Pac a few years back after his Morales defeat where he blames doing a blood test too close to the fight on weakening him(as well as other reasons why he lost the fight), if Floyd seen that then he would have known that Pac would not want to get tested close to the fight, while Floyd was very reasonable with 14 days, he could have known, as a boxer, the effects that if Pac really is weakened by a blood tests then the continued disruptions in his training would have on his preparations for the fight and that would give Mayweather a huge advantage as the momentum that Pac is carrying from his 3 previous fights would not be carried into the Mayweather fight as Pac could not have had the best training camps with the continued breaks to wait until the effects of the blood test have on Pac, both Physically and mentally, are over.
     
  15. eko718

    eko718 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Or, he could have just wanted to ensure he was getting in the ring with a clean fighter?

    Crazy how so many scenarios must be invented for that theory to be valid. Meanwhile, the simple facts are completely ignored. We don't know what Mayweather knew/ didn't know, so there's no reason to assume. What we know, is that Pac and his camp agreed to then rescinded on Olympic Style blood testing, and cited many contradicting reasons why along the way.