By Mark Vester
Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions and adviser to Floyd Mayweather Jr., thinks Manny Pacquiao will eventually budge and agree to take the random blood tests for a March fight with Mayweather. The camps are still in a dispute over Mayweather's demands on Pacquiao to take random blood tests within 30-days of the fight.
"I just think that at the end of the day, Manny Pacquiao will put his country on his back and eventually step up to the plate and agree to the random blood and urine testing. Because there is nothing out there that could do that could remotely come close to being involved in the biggest fight in the history of the sport," Ellerbe told AOL's Fan House . "Manny has surrounded himself with some very intelligent people, and I can't imagine guys like Michael Koncz and Freddie Roach advising him against doing that.?
Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank has already begun talks for a fight with WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman. Ellerbe doesn't see Pacquiao being advised to give up a money fight like Mayweather for a minor payday with Foreman.
"We haven't heard from the other side, but we're still hopeful that a deal can be made. Freddie Roach and I might not see eye to eye on a lot of different things (but) Freddie has done a great job with guiding Manny's career," Ellerbe said. "I can't imagine Freddie advising Manny Pacquiao to take a fight with Yuri Foreman for a quarter of what he would make by fighting Floyd. That makes no sense at all."
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