By Ronnie Nathanielsz

The Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission Keith Kizer says that its up to pound-for-pound king  Manny Pacquiao and former No.1 Floyd Mayweather Jr if they want to allow additional testing by another agency.

Responding to reports that both camps had agreed to have an Olympic-type testing for drugs and steroids, Kizer said “the Commission does its own testing. If the boxers want to be tested in addition to the Commission testing, that is up to them.”

Respected boxing writer David Mayo of the Grand Rapids Press reported that representatives of Mayweather in what he described as “a highly unconventional move” were demanding that both Mayweather and Pacquiao be subjected to “random, Olympic-style testing in the weeks leading up to their proposed March 13 fight.”

Mayweather’s adviser Leonard Ellerbe declined to say whether the demand was based on suspicion that Pacquiao was on performance-enhancing drugs following unsubstantiated allegations by Mayweather’s father – Floyd Sr – that Pacquiao was on steroids.

Ellerbe declined to “get into that” but claimed that both he and fellow adviser Al Hayman made sure the additional drug tests would be implemented, adding “its going to be done” even as he claimed that Mayweather Jr had nothing to do with it.

Mayo quoted Ellerbe as saying “its not a one-way thing, its both fighters who are subject to testing. This is one of the biggest fights in the sport and fans deserve it to be fair.”

Ellerbe insisted that Mayweather had nothing to do with it and it was the job of Hayman and himself “to protect him and give him the best chance to be successful” although in the same breath he said that inside the ring Mayweather will “have no problem with Pacquiao, none whatsoever.”

It was reported that the Olympic drug-testing agency would be empowered to conduct the random tests whenever it chose with such tests usually done by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Ellerbe also indirectly took a swipe at the NSAC when he said the Commission testing “is nowhere near as sophisticated as the Olympic-style testing for everything.”

The demand comes even as Keith Kizer has reiterated many times that Pacquiao had been full tested before and after all of his fights in Las Vegas for any illegal substance including steroids and always came clean.