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John Mccain Commissioner of boxing?Bob Arum has alerted the press that the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather megafight is dead. Dead because the one issue, drug testing, can not be resolved. Each has agreed to testing. The trouble lies in who will do the testing and how often or how soon before the fight will the testing be done?
Arum has said that as long as Mayweather insists on having the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency administer the test, then there is no need for further negotiations. Pacquiao and his promoters want the Nevada State Athletic Commission to be in charge of all testing.
It is time for someone to come forward and salvage this fight. Senator John McCain was offered as a mediator and Arum and team Mayweather appeared to accept him as such. Later it was learned that Pacquiao said no to the idea.
Senator McCain has long been the one voice in government that has championed boxing. He was responsible for the Professional Boxing Safety Act in 1996 and the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act in 2000.
Many boxing experts have said that if boxing had a commissioner that had the good of boxing in mind, then that man would be John McCain. On that point, many feel Manny messed up by saying no, even when Arum said yes, to McCain.
The fight could possibly happen, but time is running out. This writer actually thought that the man who could administer some much needed CPR was McCain. It now appears that unless the NSAC gets the go ahead to be in charge, then the fight will be off.
There is still room for repair. But from all reports Mayweather has done what he does best, he has gotten into Manny's psyche so bad that Pacquiao is not listening to Arum's advice concerning McCain.
One gets the feeling that Floyd is sitting back thinking to himself, "that was too easy".
