Floyd mayweather: Pushing the sport forward one allegation at a time

Here is our latest artice www.maineventboxing.wordpress.com feel free to subscribe enjoy and follow us on you tube too primefighter2011 for predictions There are many words used to describe Floyd Mayweather, arrogant, brash, cocky, nasty, controlling, brilliant and talented being just some of them. Mayweather is a famous and controversial figure in boxing today, his outside of the ring antics almost always seem to draw attention to him in the negative, his in ring talents displayed to sparingly in recent years to satisfy our thirst for the brilliance he brings. However one thing Mayweather most certainly isn’t, is a drug cheat. Performance enhancing drug’s have no place in any sport and especially not in boxing. In boxing a man might be killed in the ring, he will certainly be maimed numerous times throughout his career and just escaping with all faculties in tact is cause enough for celebration. So the playing field must be as even as a fighters talent allows. Mayweather seems to know this, no doubt his talent is greater than most and on the list of all boxers ever to have graced the ring he has to be up there, on talent. So when he draws attention to the possibility (rightly or wrongly as it may be in his accusations) of PED use in the sport of boxing, surely he is pushing the sport forward? Now it is not to say Floyd Mayweather gets to decide the drug testing policy in his sport simply because he is its premier talent and prizefighter, but in the most physical of sport’s where bodies and lives are on the line, why isn’t there Olympic style drug testing? Mosley has done it in order to get Floyd in the ring, Ortiz will do the same. World Championship fights always generate interest and money and the incentives are such that a fighter or a training crew may slip over the edge of reason to gie their fighter the edge. And so, doesn’t Mayweather make a good point? You can question the way he points the finger, you can say that Mayweather wants it all on his own terms, but in regards to drug use in the sport, is Mayweather pushing the sport forward, even if it is by one allegation at a time?