Questions for 'Pretty Boy'

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Questions for 'Pretty Boy'
SPORTING CHANCE By Joaquin Henson (The Philippine Star) Updated January 10, 2010 12:00 AM


I haven’t had the displeasure of interviewing Floyd Mayweather, Jr. who claims to be the world’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter although the recognition is limited to his immediate family. However, I’ve had the “good” fortune of speaking with his father and former trainer Floyd, Sr. in Las Vegas once. It was Floyd, Sr. who first came out in public to accuse Manny Pacquiao of taking steroids.

Mayweather, Jr., who turns 33 on Feb. 24, has a chance to prove he deserves to be on the pound-for-pound throne but isn’t exactly making it easy to create the opportunity. In fact, he’s doing everything possible not to make it happen by imposing ridiculous conditions to freeze negotiations for his showdown against Pacquiao.

It’s not the first time that Mayweather, Jr. is ducking an opponent. In 2006, he rejected an $8 million offer and a lucrative bonus based on pay-per-view sales to take on dangerous Mexican Antonio Margarito. The fight never took place. Mayweather, Jr.’s history of evasion belies a cowardly attitude – clearly, conduct unbecoming of a supposed champion.

Mayweather, Jr. was nicknamed “Pretty Boy” when he was an amateur because there were few marks on his face. His defense has been described to be impeccable. He certainly isn’t handsome and his looks aren’t the kind to bring in endorsements unless they’re for cosmetic surgery. “Pretty Boy” had a ring to it as a monicker because a headline-maker in the 1930s was named Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd, an Oklahoma criminal who was killed by FBI agents in a gunfight.

The Ring Magazine capitalized on the nickname and put Mayweather, Jr. on its cover for the Dec. 2006 issue looking like a gangster with an AK-47 rifle.

Unlike Pacquiao who’s revered as a hero in global boxing circles, Mayweather, Jr. is the ultimate villain. That’s why a Pacquiao-Mayweather battle is a potential blockbuster – it’s a fight between good and evil.

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Mayweather, Jr. is such a bad ass that “Pretty Boy” evicted his father from the house he had bought for him. Father and son are cut in the same mold. “Floyd, Jr., like his father, is an industrial-strength trash talker,” wrote Ivan Goldman in The Ring Magazine. Trash-talking isn’t the only thing they share in common. They’re both rude, arrogant and devious with huge chips on their shoulders.

Mayweather, Jr.’s demand of Olympic-style dope testing as a condition to fight Pacquiao is extremely out of whack. Why should he require it if the state athletic commission supervising the fight doesn’t? Who is he to impose such a condition?

Obviously, Mayweather, Jr. knows Pacquiao isn’t keen on submitting to a blood test unless it’s at least 24 days before a fight. It’s a mental thing for Pacquiao as it is for many Filipinos and Asians. Fans remember that Pacquiao grudgingly agreed to a blood test two days before his first fight against Erik Morales in 2005 because doctors had misplaced the sample that was extracted weeks before. Pacquiao said he felt weak after the test. Although he didn’t mean it as an excuse, Pacquiao lost a decision to Morales.

Mayweather, Jr. is playing mind games. His insistence on a blood test is illogical because a urinalysis will detect if Pacquiao is taking performance-enhancing steroids and the Filipino is agreeable to a random examination at any time before or after their fight. A blood test is done chiefly to track growth hormones, derivatives and blood doping – none of which Mayweather, Jr. has even remotely mentioned in his ludicrous charges of drug use.

So Mayweather’s insistence on an impossible condition means only one thing – he’s ducking Pacquiao. “Pretty Boy” is afraid of losing to the Filipino and getting a drubbing he’ll never live down. He was afraid of losing to Margarito three years ago so this is nothing new for “Pretty Boy.”

If Mayweather, Jr. wants to prove he’s the world’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, then he should do it in the ring, not in media or through his lawyers.

No world governing body in boxing recognizes the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) or the World Anti-Doping Agency as a vehicle to conduct tests on fighters. For Mayweather, Jr. to bring in the USADA as a party to the negotiations is highly irregular.

You’ve got to give credit to Top Rank chairman Bob Arum for trying to negotiate a compromise just to make the fight happen. It is, after all, the fight every fan wants to see, a potential $100 million grosser that is destined to be the most-watched boxing event of the decade and one of the biggest in history. Arum attempted to negotiate with Mayweather’s people who apparently had no intention to budge from their non-negotiable position.

So it’s up to Mayweather, Jr. to put up or shut up. Pacquiao has agreed to do blood tests, one at least 24 days before the fight, even if they’re inconsequential, if only to get “Pretty Boy” to sign on the dotted line.

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If I ever get the chance to interview Mayweather, Jr., here are some of the questions I’ll ask:

You haven’t scored a knockout in four of your last five fights. Are you losing your touch?

When you look at yourself in the mirror, can you seriously imagine being called “Pretty Boy?”

You began fighting as an amateur at 106 pounds in 1993 and now, you’re fighting as a pro at over 147. Pacquiao turned pro weighing 106 in 1995 and is now, fighting inside 147 pounds. What makes you think Pacquiao is taking steroids to increase muscle mass when you’ve taken the same route to move up in weight – unless you know something we don’t?

Why did you back out of the Margarito fight? Do you ever have nightmares or sleepless nights thinking of losing your first bout by a knockout – and the man standing over you is Pacquiao?

What kind of a crazy relationship do you have with your father? You’d rather work with your uncle Roger than your father – why? What ever happened to your mother? You were born Floyd Sinclair, taking your mother’s surname, presumably because your parents weren’t or aren’t married. Why did you switch to Mayweather and dump your mother’s name?

Do you enjoy making a fool of yourself by issuing ridiculous demands to duck an opponent?

Do you feel gratified short-changing boxing fans by choosing easy opponents instead of proving yourself to be the best in the ring?

Don’t you think by eluding Pacquiao, you’re destined to be known as a lily-livered bogus champion with a yellow streak down your back?

Are you preparing for a career in professional wrestling by engaging in trash-talking and media buffoonery? Two years ago, “Pretty Boy” used brass knuckles to “knock out” the Big Show in Wrestlemania XXIV and seemed more suited as a clown than a real-life fighter.

You’ve won six world titles in five different classes. Pacquiao has captured seven championships in seven divisions. Does it bother you that you don’t hold Pacquiao’s record? Is the feeling of inferiority eating you up?

I can’t wait to interview Mayweather, Jr. Maybe, he’ll duck me, too.

Hahahahahhahahahahaha!!!!! Nice one Quinito.

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My bad was that Chris Childs?

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