Comments Thread For: HBO's Larry Merchant Thinks Manny Pacquiao is Clean

[BadBrains]

*****s only "FANTASTIC" evidence that Pacquiao's on steroids is:

Cause if he was`nt he would have took the test to prove it.Why else would he walk away from 40 million dollars?

[BadBrains]

Pacquiao is on roids and that`s that.Cause if he was`nt he would have took the test to prove it.Why else would he walk away from 40 million dollars?

Oh yes he's walking away from $40 mil cuz he will make even more money when he tax the legendary crackhead family in court.

[KOKing27]

@BadBrains... He did agree to take the test, three ****ing times. You are on crack, and that's that because you make dumb a$$ statements...

[StarRican]

HBO's expert boxing analyst Larry Merchant doesn't see anything that would make him think that Manny Pacquiao is using any performance enhancing drugs. The debate over the legit nature of Pacquiao's performances has come up in the big mess involving the dispute over the cut-off date for random Olympic style drug tests for a March fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

"I see no indications that Pacquiao is anything but an exceptional, elite fighter. There are many precedents in boxing of smaller fighters to move up in weight division and be successful later in their careers. Oscar De La Hoya himself started out as a 130-pound titleholder and wound up fighting middleweights which is 30 pounds north of that. It seems like its some sort of ploy," Merchant told USA Today.

Merchant thinks Mayweather's demand for random blood tests was a mental game that exploded out of his control and has now buried the fight.

"I thought it was just some gamesmanship by Mayweather who has a certain talent for mind games with opponents, creating conflict to help promote events. It appears that it has spiraled out of control. I couldn't imagine why. First of all, since he thinks he's going to win the fight and second of all because he's going to make upwards of 30 million or 40 million dollars, how could you take it seriously?" - Merchant said.

"They seem serious about it. Almost as if they were saying Pacquiao can't be this good on his own. Now it's seems like it's a bloodbath. There's no precedent for fighters who have already decided how to divide the money then find issues that would break up a huge event. It's hard to take seriously even if it appears to be serious."

Oh Larry, you're so old you don't even know what the hell you said. I hate how you interview fighters and your lucky that one of them didn't actually snuffed you when you kept them from speaking their mind. But lets go back to what you said...

So you say it was a mental game by Mayweather that exploded out of his control. You also said that this is Mayweathers gamesmanship to help promote the fight and then you say how can you take it seriously right? But you blame Mayweather and the 30 to 40 million he could make and messed up the fight, for something that you said went out of his control although he does these things to create and promote the fight!?

Larry Merchant you have officially gone senial!

Oh and btw I can't stand Mayweather, but I have to freakin back up this fool bc it is the truth.

[BadBrains]

@BadBrains... He did agree to take the test, three ****ing times. You are on crack, and that's that because you make dumb a$$ statements...

A pac nuthugger who has the worst reading comprehension in the world! Read my previous post and see if I even said that pac's not even willing to take the test fool.

[BadBrains]

Oh Larry, you're so old you don't even know what the hell you said. I hate how you interview fighters and your lucky that one of them didn't actually snuffed you when you kept them from speaking their mind. But lets go back to what you said...

So you say it was a mental game by Mayweather that exploded out of his control. You also said that this is Mayweathers gamesmanship to help promote the fight and then you say how can you take it seriously right? But you blame Mayweather and the 30 to 40 million he could make and messed up the fight, for something that you said went out of his control although he does these things to create and promote the fight!?

Larry Merchant you have officially gone senial!

Oh and btw I can't stand Mayweather, but I have to freakin back up this fool bc it is the truth.

At least larry is better than a nuthugging max kellerman who got backstabbed by his idol.

[lcheezy]

the scared to fight coward is on steriods and maybe he need to give some to merchant to enhance his memory.after they agreed on the money then pac got out of the fight by putting all those stipulations"which pbf agreed to".manny knows that he can't beat pbf so this is his way of saying i'm scared.

[handler000]

CNN is also maintaining a professional view and not choosing Mayweather

LMAO.. That's not CNN's or Sports Illustrated article. That's from the Associated Press.

[renren40]

LMAO.. That's not CNN's or Sports Illustrated article. That's from the Associated Press.

you win ... you got me ... you accomplished something

[BadBrains]

the scared to fight coward is on steriods and maybe he need to give some to merchant to enhance his memory.after they agreed on the money then pac got out of the fight by putting all those stipulations"which pbf agreed to".manny knows that he can't beat pbf so this is his way of saying i'm scared.

from what i remember, pbf was the first one making demands such as, the fight should take place at 154lbs with 10oz gloves in a 24ft ring size. And then pac countered, then now pbf countered with the USADA blood test.