By Mark Vester
Following his dominating twelve round decision over Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr. stayed firm on his position when it came to the subject of a fight with Manny Pacquiao. Unless Pacquiao agrees to the random Olympic-style drug tests, Mayweather says the fight will not happen.
The two sides were in talks earlier in the year. The fight fell apart because Pacquiao and Mayweather could not agree on the cut-off date for the random drug tests. Pacquiao wanted the tests to stop 24-days prior to the fight and Mayweather them to continue until 14-days prior to the fight. Recently Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach told BoxingScene.com that he was willing to compromise and meet Mayweather halfway, at 17-days. Mayweather is probably not going to agree to a cut-off date the second time around. He is going to push for the testing period to continue until the day of the fight.
"If Manny Pacquiao wants to fight, it's not hard to find me. We were going to make this fight happen a couple of months back. We couldn't make it happen, so we moved on," Mayweather said.
"All I want to do is be on an even playing field. If every athlete is clean, then take the test. I'm willing to take the test. Like I've said before, if Manny Pacquiao takes the blood and urine tests, we can make the fight happen for all the fans. [If he doesn't] then we don't got no fight."
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