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During the failed negotiations for a potential March 13 bout against unbeaten Floyd Mayweather, seven-division champion, Manny Pacquiao claimed that he did not want to have blood randomly drawn for drug testing within 14 days of a fight.
The verdict is in. The Nevada State Athletic Commission has handed down their punishment on lightweight Ali Funeka for testing positive for a banned diuretic following a March, 12-round, split-decision loss to Joan Guzman.
The 24-year-old Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (40-0-1, 30 KOs) is preparing to end what will have been a seven-month ring absence on June 26 when he steps into the ring at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Tex., opposite Ireland-native, John Duddy, of New York. Chavez-Duddy will be part of Top Rank Promotions' Latin Fury 15: La Furia De Mexico pay per view event.
For four years, Victor Conte was among the world's best drug dealers, a man who, as founder of BALCO, "was about helping athletes to circumvent" Olympic style drug testing policies such as those executed by The United States Anti-Doping Agency "until BALCO was raided" in 2003.
NEW YORK - Last Saturday night, Arthur Mercante Jr. was the referee for the first professional main event at Yankee Stadium in over 33-years, officiating a ninth-round, technical knockout victory by challenger Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 knockouts) that dethroned WBA junior middleweight (154 pounds) champion Yuri Foreman (28-1, eight KOs).
WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao continues to voice his agreement to a drug testing schedule that he believes will satisfy the demands required for a potential megabout with Floyd Mayweather, but it is unclear whether that, in itself, is what the unbeaten welterweight's side really wants.
New York - As the new WBA junior middlweight champion, Miguel Cotto now has a world of options at his disposal, including possible rematches with Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs), and, Margarito (38-6, 27 KOs).
BRONX, N.Y. -- Nearly 16 months earlier, Miguel Cotto had suffered his first loss as well as the beating of his career at the hands of Antonio Margarito, whose 11th-round knockout in July 2008 not only dethroned Cotto as WBA king, but left the Puerto Rican star with a broken nose after having been knocked down once, taking a knee once and bleeding from a cavernous laceration over his left eye.
New York - If it were up to Manny Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, fights against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez would happen as soon as possible, with Pacquiao knocking off Mayweather, and, Marquez, respectively, in that order.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission will hold a hearing June 9 addressing its protocol for drug testing, in general, and, steroids and illegal drugs, in particular, commission director, Keith Kizer, informed BoxingScene.com.