Arum: Mayweather Getting Hit A lot By Sparring Partners

By Ronnie Nathanielsz

As previously reports, eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao skipped training for the second day in a row and only went jogging at Pan Pacific Park yesterday morning.

He was supposed to spar yesterday but while Pacquiao was in the Wild Card Gym of trainer Freddie Roach, the US Anti Doping Agency technicians showed up and extracted four vials of blood as part of the random drug tests that both Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr are being subjected to.

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said Pacquiao didn’t want to keep the USADA technicians waiting until he finished training and decided to ask them to get his blood and urine samples before his training and “since it took a while to get it done, Freddie (Roach) asked Manny to take off” since he was ahead of schedule and in fine shape.

Pacquiao is not the only one who took a break from sparring.

Arum told BoxingScene.com/New Standard that he was informed that Mayweather was “getting hit a lot by his sparring partners and couldn’t spar for a few days because his lip was cut and they had to manufacture a special headgear that also covered his lips because every time Floyd got hit, it bled.”

Mayweather-Pacquiao takes place on May 2nd from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.