By Mark Vester
Trainer Jeff Mayweather, the uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr., had a lot to say about a possible November fight between his nephew and WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Like his two brothers, Roger and Floyd Sr., Jeff is 100% behind his nephew's demand for a random drug testing protocol.
Based on some of his comments in a recent interview with the Fort Smith Boxing Examiner, Jeff is suspicious about Pacquiao possibly using performance enhancing drugs. If the fighters agree to random drug testing, Jeff predicts a knockout win for his nephew within five rounds.
"If Pacquiao agrees to the random testing, I think he will get knocked out. I would say, probably within five rounds, Pacquiao will get knocked out, because he can't get out of the way of anything," Jeff Mayweather said.
"One thing that Floyd has always shown; once they start saying that somone's going to beat him, Floyd don't just beat them, he dominates them. He shows that they don't even belong in the same ring with him. He did it with Mosley, he did it with Marquez, and everybody else they've said that about."
If a deal doesn't happen, Jeff doesn't want the boxing public to blame his nephew. He says the blame should be put on Pacquiao. Jeff blames the Filipino champion for the fight falling through earlier this year. The two fighters were unable to agree on the terms for the random drug testing protocol. Jeff thinks the issue of random drug testing will be the likely cause for the fight falling through in the second round of negotiations.
"I think that it's one of those situations, that when and if it doesn't happen, everyone's going to point the finger at Floyd, when the finger shouldn't be pointed at Floyd. It should be pointed at Pacquiao because Pacquiao is the reason why the fight didn't happen in the first place, and it'll be that same reason why the fight don't happen this time," Jeff Mayweather said.
"It has nothing to do with Floyd. I mean, this guy went into all these demands on Floyd, what he wanted. You know, [Pacquiao] said, 'Ok. Every pound you're over, that's going to cost you 10 million dollars'. Floyd said, 'Ok'. Then he said, 'I want to wear these kind of gloves'. Floyd said, 'Ok'."
[Floyd said], 'Now, I want you to take the drug tests, random drug testing.' See, Manny's still trying to get around that whole issue. Recently, now he's trying to say, 'Ok. Well, I'll do it up until 14 days'. But that's not random then, because you know when they're going to stop testing you."
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