By Mark Vester
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is not leaving any stone unturned. During the press tour for the May 1 clash with Shane Mosley, Floyd has outdone himself in the verbal jabs category. He took aim at Mosley over his divorce, his finances and now he even questions his record. Mayweather, in several interviews, was very critical of Mosley's past history with using performance enhancing drugs. Prior to the 2003 rematch with Oscar De La Hoya, Mosley took performance enhancing drugs.
During the BALCO scandal, Mosley claimed he took the drugs without any knowledge of their illegal nature. He claims the drugs were passed off to him as normal supplements. Mayweather doesn't buy that story and wonders just how long Mosley was actually using performance enhancing drugs.
"The thing is this, you've got people who, even in Mosley's career, they talk about how Mosley beat all of these guys. You know, we don't know, when he got all of these knockouts at lightweight [135 pounds], we don't know what he was taking," Mayweather told Lem Satterfield of AOL Fanhouse.
Mayweather and Mosley have agreed to a random drug testing protocol during their training camps. Mayweather tried to get Pacquiao to agree to the same kind of protocol but the two fighters were unable to reach an agreement on when the testing would stop during the 30-window prior to the fight.
"Okay, like I said before. They need to make the changes. I'd change everything in the sport of boxing. They need to make the changes. All that I'm trying to do is show the world that my sport is clean. I'm trying to separate the ordinary from the good, from the great," Mayweather said.
"I never said nothing about Manny Paquiao, but I've never known a man who didn't want to take a drug test and risk losing $25 million. And now, he's making $6 million [against Joshua Clottey]."
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