Has anyone else lost respect for Pacquiao??

[Random1]

Well Pac had a long way to go to earn my respect to begin with. I really started following boxing around the time the whole Top Rank/GBP too many contracts fiasco was happening, so my initial opinion of Pac wasn't too high... I had a hard time respecting a guy who'd sign anything for money. Over the past few years his fists have forced me to hold him in higher regard, although I am not a fan by any means.

This has sunk it down again... the only string I can hold on to is that his pride really does mean more than all the money he's been offered. Having never been a millionaire I can't really approach the money the way he can, as he already has a lot, so it's technically possible that he really does care about his pride more than the money.

Of course the easy answer is to take the tests and restore the pride by being proven clean so he can laugh at the Mayweathers.

[madsweeney]

lost a little respect only because his ego got in the way of this fight and he allowed his camp to make him look bad.

[Easy-E]

I have lost respect for Manny in the way he has dealt with this fight. He has been hypocritical and shady and has appered to shy away from facing Floyd. It is tough to tell how much if this is Manny's fault and responsibility and how much is to be blamed on his team, though.

[madsweeney]

Well Pac had a long way to go to earn my respect to begin with. I really started following boxing around the time the whole Top Rank/GBP too many contracts fiasco was happening, so my initial opinion of Pac wasn't too high... I had a hard time respecting a guy who'd sign anything for money. Over the past few years his fists have forced me to hold him in higher regard, although I am not a fan by any means.

This has sunk it down again... the only string I can hold on to is that his pride really does mean more than all the money he's been offered. Having never been a millionaire I can't really approach the money the way he can, as he already has a lot, so it's technically possible that he really does care about his pride more than the money.

Of course the easy answer is to take the tests and restore the pride by being proven clean so he can laugh at the Mayweathers.

Well said. Easy for us to say we would go against our principals for $40M...we don't have 2-3 times that sitting in the bank.

We also seem to forget 14vdays isn't meeting half way, they compromised from no testing a all, not 30 days so i can see why the wont go further than 24 days even though I don't agree

[htown00]

yeah I lost some respect....just didn't expect for them to go to such lengths to not take the test during a decent time peroiod...14 days is more than fair. I think it should be more like 5 days. Especially since Floyd is doing the same test.