Comments Thread For: Arum: Mayweather, Marquez Both Possible For Pacquiao

[Mindrapist]

The same thing can be said about Floyd's team! You will hear Manny's name when Floyd's fight gets closer!

Just like it came up during the Canelo buildup? Oh, wait...

Oh! Here it is! Just like it came up during the Maidana build-up? Oh, wait...

Just stop it already. Some guys criticize him for not talking about Manny, which he doesn't. He doesn't care about him.

Top Rank still is trying to make bucks off his name which is quite disgusting, honestly, but the gullible fans fall for it every time.

[MamaHuevo]

40 mil with no ppv. Basically floyd offered 1/3 of the pot. Since the marquez lost pac has required vada on all his fights. floyd is now using the promoter excuse. I see a pattern here.

Wow it took Pacduckiao to use VADA after how many years since Floyd's negotiations. Smart ass

[Mindrapist]

WTF is this? Mayweather-Mosley testing. Please go troll somewhere else with that bs.

It's the testing protocol that would've been in place for Mayweather-Pacquiao. The same one that has been in place for all his fights since then. At no point do you see a weigh-in blood test. You just made that up out of thin air.

[MamaHuevo]

I think its all bullshiiit. If two men wanted to fight, they will fight. ex hopkins kovalev. Floyd is the only one that doesnt want this fight and there is no denying that. People who say he walked away from 40 mil, yea he did. Cuz anyone who would take that deal is an idiot. 40 mil flat. Thats it. No ppv revenue % or anything else. Manny is just as big and has just as much, if not more fans WORLDWIDE. For people who say that he didnt wanna get tested. He agreed to the testing, just not two weeks before the fight was to take place. He also agreed to take blood testing in the locker room DIRECTLY AFTER THE FIGHT. It's mayweather with all his bs excuses. Gimme more money. Then it's, take the blood test. Now it's, you have to leave arum.

TBE = The Best Excuses

That defeats the purpose of random testing moron how can they cut off dates and they also wanted to know when they would be coming hmmm i wonder why. Also ask Roach bout Ariza who he even said on record that he didn't know what Ariza was going Pac.

[Evol]

why i marquez name still being mention?? thought he rather live with the feeling instead?? pac shouldnt even care about marquez anymore. i hope pac goes on to win more big fights and is right back at the top so marquez can come crying to pac talking about a 5th fight. then pac can say no, u can keep that feeling!

[MamaHuevo]

Hypocracy much? Why floyd didnt fight margarito instead of sharmba mitchell? Oh wait floyd said no welterweight wanted to fight him.

Margowho? Oh ya Margacheato isn't he retired.

[MisanthropicNY]

LOL still using May vs Pac just to keep a headline...

Both could use the promotion with the low numbers... I mean even May is trying to say "I have a surprise in May"...yeah, sure like we believe the fight is going to happen...

Not that I am really excited about it anymore... to me Pac-May is still relevant if they both look impressive in their next fights..that's a big if...and that means nothing because Floyd seems intent on needing every single advantage in his fights now..so he won't take a fight with someone close to him leeway-wise...

[bigjavi973]

Here's your proof.

They may not even test all up until the fight. They just want the OPTION to do so to deter potential cheating. That's the whole point of random testing anyway.

No one said he should be tested the night of the weigh-in. That's bogus. Like Dunn said, the facts may contradict your view of the man but you should accept what his team has admitted themselves and move on.

Or stop commenting on boxing.

"In a video titled "Boxing Legend Freddie Roach Updates Us On Pacquiao" uploaded to YouTube on December 11, 2009, Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, revealed the first hint about Mayweather's request for Olympic-style drug testing, telling roving reporter Elie Seckbach, "I hear negotiations are a little shady. Schaefer and them are unhappy about something. They want Olympic-style drug testing. I said, 'Yeah, no problem.' I said, 'Whatever you want.' Since we accepted that, now they're running scared again."

On December 13, 2009, Pacquiao's adviser, Michael Koncz, said Mayweather's request for Olympic-style drug testing was a laughing matter and they had no concerns whatsoever about it. "Our reaction is, 'So what?' We know Manny doesn't take any illegal drugs or anything. And none of this is getting under Manny's skin or anything. I'm here with Manny, and to him, it's like a joke. It's a laughing matter," said Koncz.

After reports had surfaced that both parties had agreed to all terms, Golden Boy Promotions released a press release on December 22, 2009, revealing that Pacquiao was unwilling to comply with the Olympic-style drug testing requested by Team Mayweather. The following day, Bob Arum, Top Rank founder and CEO, declared the fight was off and Pacquiao would be facing a different opponent. "We appeased Mayweather by agreeing to a urine analysis at any time, and blood testing before the press conference and after the fight. Mayweather pressed for blood testing even up to the weigh-in. He knew that Manny gets freaked out when his blood gets taken and feels that it weakens him. This is just harassment and, to me, just signaled that he didn't want the fight," Arum told David Mayo of the Grand Rapids Press.

Not long after declaring that the fight was off, Arum had a change of heart and offered Mayweather a 24-hour take-it-or-leave-it deadline to accept Team Pacquiao's terms for drug testing. Top Rank sent out a press release explaining their position on Mayweather's request for random Olympic-style drug testing. In it, Arum said Pacquiao was willing to submit to as many random urine tests requested, but as far as random blood tests were concerned, he was only willing to subject himself to 3 tests: one in January, one 30 days from the bout (no later than February 13) and immediately after the fight. "Let's be very clear on the real issues we differ on. It's not about being tested....It's about who does the testing and the scheduling of the procedures....The major issue related to the testing rests with which independent agency will administer these tests. The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) cannot do it because they will not amend its procedures to accommodate the blood testing schedule we have outlined. USADA, under its guidelines, would have the right to administer random blood tests as many times as they want up to weigh-in day and that is ludicrous," Arum explained.

Freddie Roach told Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times on December 22, 2009, that he would prefer for Pacquiao to give his final blood sample a week before the bout and no later than 72 hours before.

On December 28, 2009, video from an episode of HBO's Pacquiao-Hatton: 24/7 surfaced on the internet showing Pacquiao giving blood in the weeks leading up to his May 2, 2009, bout with Ricky Hatton. Documents confirmed that the video was recorded on April 8, 2009, 24 days prior to the fight and past the 30-day cut-off date that Pacquiao had demanded for a Mayweather fight.[10]

Pacquiao filed suit in U.S. District Court in Nevada on December 30, 2009, against Floyd Mayweather Jr., Floyd Mayweather Sr., Roger Mayweather, Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions executives Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer, alleging that they made false and defamatory statements accusing him of taking performance-enhancing drugs.[12]

Both sides agreed to enter into mediation on January 7, 2010, in hopes of coming to an agreement on the blood testing issue. Retired federal judge Daniel Weinstein, who successfully resolved a prior dispute between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions, would again act as mediator. Two days later, after hours of negotiating during mediation, Arum declared that the fight was officially off after Mayweather refused to agree to a 24-day cut-off date."

[bigjavi973]

It's the testing protocol that would've been in place for Mayweather-Pacquiao. The same one that has been in place for all his fights since then. At no point do you see a weigh-in blood test. You just made that up out of thin air.

Its random testing UP TO the night of the weigh in. I dont understand why is it so hard to understand that.

[bigjavi973]

That defeats the purpose of random testing moron how can they cut off dates and they also wanted to know when they would be coming hmmm i wonder why. Also ask Roach bout Ariza who he even said on record that he didn't know what Ariza was going Pac.

right now you and mindrapist are defending the same person but are contradicting each other. Floydiots cant even get their own story straight.