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It was 9:30 in the evening, Dec 23rd, 2009.
We were on the topdeck of the SM City parking structure, just
outside the entrance to the cinemas of "the Block". Mike Koncz was
sitting on a parked police motorbike, flirting with some women, while
Wapakman premiered inside the mall.
So, what's up with Pac's blood-test objections?
It's not the needles, but the fact of drawing blood.
The man believes it weakens him, but it's not some big phobia, nor
does it really interfere with Manny's complicated (to a Westerner)
and extended pre-fight rituals. He'd just prefer not to, but it's not
a deal breaker:
Although Manny believes that losing even a little blood so close
to fight night would diminish his strength, he'd be willing to do it.
Blood is NOT the issue that's crippled negotiations, the insider says.
It's how the other side keeps adjusting the terms already agreed on,
and not just with respect to testing procedures.
Every time Arum and Pacquiao would agree to some new twist, the
other side would up the ante, as if probing to see what was finally
UNACCEPTABLE to Pac. 'A certain adviser' to Pacquiao took the other
side's perceived attitude to its natural end, concluding that the other
side was simply looking for a way to scuttle the fight and paint Pac
as the villain; that they would inevitably find a way to do it...
so why prolong the agony?
Certain aspects of Pac's prefight routine are supposedly better left
private, and Mayweather's negotiators seemed hellbent on finding
anything that could make Manny look bad, so... 'a certain adviser'
declared that it was better to just pull the plug.
Manny listened and took a hardline position, and since Arum was
also pissed off, there was no one to advise Manny otherwise.
The guy added that they felt Mayweather's gameplan was really to
fight Manny only much later, after Manny'd been softened up by
Mosley or some other heavy ****ers; and that this March madness
was just to make Pac look scared, and give Floyd better marquee
for cashing in on another interim "tuneup".
That was this insider's take on the situation, and while some of it
made sense, feel free to keep your BS meters switched on.
BTW... Koncz' lame pickup lines?
"Hey there, there's no smoking outdoors!"
h.
We were on the topdeck of the SM City parking structure, just
outside the entrance to the cinemas of "the Block". Mike Koncz was
sitting on a parked police motorbike, flirting with some women, while
Wapakman premiered inside the mall.
So, what's up with Pac's blood-test objections?
It's not the needles, but the fact of drawing blood.
The man believes it weakens him, but it's not some big phobia, nor
does it really interfere with Manny's complicated (to a Westerner)
and extended pre-fight rituals. He'd just prefer not to, but it's not
a deal breaker:
Although Manny believes that losing even a little blood so close
to fight night would diminish his strength, he'd be willing to do it.
Blood is NOT the issue that's crippled negotiations, the insider says.
It's how the other side keeps adjusting the terms already agreed on,
and not just with respect to testing procedures.
Every time Arum and Pacquiao would agree to some new twist, the
other side would up the ante, as if probing to see what was finally
UNACCEPTABLE to Pac. 'A certain adviser' to Pacquiao took the other
side's perceived attitude to its natural end, concluding that the other
side was simply looking for a way to scuttle the fight and paint Pac
as the villain; that they would inevitably find a way to do it...
so why prolong the agony?
Certain aspects of Pac's prefight routine are supposedly better left
private, and Mayweather's negotiators seemed hellbent on finding
anything that could make Manny look bad, so... 'a certain adviser'
declared that it was better to just pull the plug.
Manny listened and took a hardline position, and since Arum was
also pissed off, there was no one to advise Manny otherwise.
The guy added that they felt Mayweather's gameplan was really to
fight Manny only much later, after Manny'd been softened up by
Mosley or some other heavy ****ers; and that this March madness
was just to make Pac look scared, and give Floyd better marquee
for cashing in on another interim "tuneup".
That was this insider's take on the situation, and while some of it
made sense, feel free to keep your BS meters switched on.
BTW... Koncz' lame pickup lines?
"Hey there, there's no smoking outdoors!"
h.
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