It was was the cut-off date for the drug testing that killed the first negotiations not the drug testing itself. So again... Who refused the drug testing?
LOL, Wanting to be notified when the random drug testing was going to be taking place is the same as refusing it.
Just live with it. Fight's happening now.
I didn't hear that part of the negotiations, so your saying Pacs team wanted to be notified when the random drug test was gonna happen? Which means a drug test would have happend randomly or not. Which means he wasn't refusing any drug test. Get your facts right
No, it means it's not random if you're notified when it's going to happen!
There for he refused it because he couldn't be notified when it was going to happen.
So your saying who ever was gonna do the random drug test was gonna notify Pacs team when its gonna happen?
so why didnt the fight happen in 2009? how do u see it playing out now that it is?
Doesnt matter, fights happening.
That is Floyd's only chance to take the fight to Pacquiao. Floyd got a punchers chance, and if his luck is in he could do it.
Hopefully Pacquiao will boxer smart and not go all out offense.
Yeah I just wanna see both of them trade shots in the middle of the ring, hopefully Floyd gets a little more aggressive and Pac to not be over aggressive when Floyd does.
did floyd refuse a drug test that ruined the fight? maybe thats why some people harped on it.... or maybe not...
Who refused the drug test then? Cuz Pac didn't.
I think Floyd don't like any reporters who would question or correct his answers when it comes to Pac. If remember correctly there was a thread here before about a black reporter who got banned/ignored by Floyd for asking questions no other reporters ask regarding Pac.
Im a fan of both fighters and I do think that JMM was catching a beating just by looking at his face. But like some of yall said, that dont take anything away from the KO win.
I admit not paying much attention to Angel garcia because he just seems like a blowhard ******* so I must have missed the racist comments...Anyone care to give me any info?
Angel called Zab a Ni****err
yup...he was dumb for not taking $40mil and no ppv...they said he was never gonna get a better deal than that...bunch of retards
Yup 80mil + 40%, Pac made a good call.
$40 million flat was supposed to be the start of the negotiations. I don't think you understand how negotiations work. The A-side in the negotiation is supposed to start off with a low ball offer. And then they go back and forth and eventually meet up in the middle or the desired split. If the negotiations continued, then he could have gotten more. But Pac said no and hung up. But I do believe that Pac got a better offer in this negotiation. 80 million plus 35 percent isn't bad at all. I'm just saying, 40 million was never meant to be Pac's one and only final offer. Negotiation, by definition, goes against that.
Arum made a counter offer and got no respond from Floyd
When we ran from the fight of the century over his unwillingness to undergo it without set periods of time he couldn't be tested...
But you agree that there would have been a "set period of time" that he would have been OST? So again where is the refusal to take OST? And also other than Donaire, most boxers dont even get OST year round.
You and many others are way too fixated on the term OST. Point is Floyd and others have gone beyond the regular testing and implemented blood testing.
I'm going to say it one more time
Manny should have told Floyd o go fuk himself and immediately implemented his own blood testing by his standards with cut off dates and whatever but instead he chose to let the commish do their jobs then he gets put to sleep.
So you think Pac refused to "take the test"?
If I remember correctly, it was the cut-off date for the OST that killed the first negotiation. Not Pac refusing OST. So where do some of you guys get that Pac refused OST?
I know there are some who wanted Floyd to rematch Maidana me being not one of them. But lets be honest, if Floyd really let the fans pick it would be Pac by a landslide. The same way he let the fans pick Khan........oh yeah he picked Maidana instead.