Comments Thread For: Golden Boy Backing off USADA For Mayweather-Pacquiao

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Comments Thread For: Golden Boy Backing off USADA For Mayweather-Pacquiao

According to a report on ESPN.com, Golden Boy Promotions is willing to back away from having to use the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to handle the random Olympic-style drug tests for Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao on March 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The fight fell apart in the last week when both sides could not agree on the exact testing procedures for the fight. Golden Boy wanted the USADA to handle the random tests. Pacquiao and his side were not willing to agree. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is willing to use another company to handle the tests - as long as the tests are still random and happen within a shorter window of time than 30-days before the fight. [Click Here To Read More]

[project xxx1]

thank *** for that,come on pac and arum bring it on and make the fight happen and sign it and people on here say pbf is scared,haha hes doing everything he can to make the fight

[RodBarker]

Its so obvious that FLOYD MAYWEATHER doesnt want to fight.

I just wonder what will be another crazy demand.


16 oz GLOVES?? so that FLOYD can run all day chicken dancing

You are a total fanboy that cant read , you are gunna be one ***ed up adult .

[Brother Mouzone]

There it is , Floyd has again been reasonable , it is Manny saying no test in 30 days which is bull**** , Iv believe Manny dont want this fight and is looking for a way out .

i agree floyd has done everything to make this fight happen pac has done the opposite this article re-enforces this.. what is the excuse for pac fans now ?

[P.WILL]

Of Course Too much money on the table and pac being a little ***** sueing and ****

[RodBarker]

thank *** for that,come on pac and arum bring it on and make the fight happen and sign it and people on here say pbf is scared,haha hes doing everything he can to make the fight

Right from the start its so obvious Floyd wants this fight badly .

[project xxx1]

Its so obvious that FLOYD MAYWEATHER doesnt want to fight.

I just wonder what will be another crazy demand.


16 oz GLOVES?? so that FLOYD can run all day chicken dancing

trust you to say that,you are a true pbf hater

[Avenue]

whoa whoa dan rafael making sense?
the world is coming to a end folks

[Cash Cow]

Schaefer believes that Arum's position of leaving it up to the commission is him "moving the goal post."

"The pressure is on Pacquiao," he said. "They keep moving the goal post like they did with the $10 million weight penalty (if either fighter is over the contract maximum 147 pounds), which we agreed to. They didn't think we would accept that. When we did, they had to find something else to make into a problem. So now they're saying it's up to the commission instead of wanting to negotiate the drug testing with us. I don't want to hear that if the fight breaks up it was because of us. When they came to us with a $10 million weight penalty, they didn't expect us to say yes. They thought we'd say no. So when we said yes, they had to come up with something else. Now we're off USADA, and they are going to come and say only urine testing if that's what the commission says. It's really frustrating.

"We are making compromises. It's a two-way street. If they back off again, I will shut off my phone and spend the rest of the Christmas and New Year's time with my family, and good luck to all of these fools."

While Arum is making plans for an alternative fight for Pacquiao against former junior welterweight titlist Paulie Malignaggi -- who has also accused Pacquiao of using PEDs -- if the Mayweather fight falls apart, Schaefer said he hasn't discussed an alternative with Mayweather.

"We haven't discussed anybody else because the fight we want to bring to the fight fans is the one with Pacquiao," he said. "The focus is on getting Mayweather-Pacquiao done while Bob is making calls everywhere on the Malignaggi fight. That shows his focus is not on Mayweather.

"How ridiculous is that that Pacquiao would go and fight the guy who makes accusations that he uses performance enhancing drugs instead of Mayweather (Jr.), who didn't make those accusations? Something is not right. I don't know how to explain it other than maybe Pacquiao doesn't want the Mayweather fight."

Dan Rafael covers boxing for ESPN.com.

Bob Arum =

[roujinziro]

This is all promotional nonsense to keep the fight in the headlines, which I'm sure was the plan in the beginning. There's way too much money out there for this fight not to happen.