By Mark Vester
According to promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank, the March 13 super-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. is still a dead issue. Arum spoke to Michael Marley of The Examiner and denied some of the information in an earlier ESPN report where Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer [negotiating for Mayweather] said the two sides had agreed to everything but the cut-off date for blood and urine tests.
"What we're saying, and what is important to us, is four things -- that the tests be random, that they include blood and urine and the time frame, meaning when do you stop the tests before the fight but know they will still be effective. Three of them we have agreed on -- random, blood and urine. So now it is a matter of the two sides working out the specifics of the cutoff date to assure it will still be effective," Schaefer said.
Arum says that is not the case and there are more issues out there. Arum told Marley that Schaefer is fabricating the information he stated on the fight negotiations to make himself look better to Mayweather.
“Schaefer is making it up,” Arum said. “It is not true, it is just not true. He is making this up now because he looks bad. He is making this up because he is trying to justify it to Mayweather. Let’s see if he can justify it to Mayweather why this fight is now dead.”
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