By Mark Vester
The news has turned the boxing world upside down. The March 13 super-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is in serious jeopardy of being off after a dispute over the contract clause of "Olympic-style drug testing" 30-days before the fight. Pacquiao is only willing to go let his blood get drawn around the time of the January press conference to announce the fight - and after the actual fight is over.
The first person to go public with statements that Pacquiao might be taking performance-enhancing drugs, was Floyd Mayweather Sr. Since Mayweather's statements, others like Paulie Malignaggi and Kermit Cintron expressed similiar thoughts. Mayweather Sr. spoke with The Grand Rapids Press and gave his opinions on the latest developments in the negotiations for a fight between his son and Pacquiao. He feels the recent position by Pacquiao has validated his claims against the Filipino fighter.
“That tells you right there, I was right. You have to think that way,” Floyd Sr said. “Like I said from the start, that was just my opinion. It’s a lot of people’s opinion now. For that kind of money, how could you not take a test? There’s a reason. Just what I said is the reason, that’s it, right there.”
Floyd Sr. doesn't stop there. He says Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, knows exactly what's going on with his fighter and the use of performance-enhancing substances.
“That’s his trainer,” he said. “You know damn well he knows what’s going on. I’ve been trying to tell everybody all the time, man. I ain’t never seen anybody in my life, some little man coming up in weight like that, then taking these big men and putting them down. That’s (expletive). I ain’t never seen anything like it. Cotto said it was the hardest he ever got hit by anybody. That doesn’t make any sense."
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