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Mayweather, Mayweather, Sr. and De La Hoya Resort to the PED Blame Game with Pacquiao – and Blow a March 13 Fight Date
By: dwil
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So, it’s done. There will be no March 13 fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. For Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya it came to using low-brow tactics to get under Pacquiao and an attempt to smear the Pac-Man in the press using the 21st century sports bogeyman: the specter of performance-enhancing drugs.
The misdeeds and foolish moves by Mayweather, his father, Floyd, Sr, and Golden Boy Productions led by De La Hoya cost the two camps at least 20 million dollars apiece and, for the moment, has blackened boxing’s eye… with mixed martial arts lurking in the background ready to drop the sweet science and step on its collective neck.
First it was Mayweather and his “people” demanding Olympic drug testing before the Pacquiao fight; if Pacquiao would not capitulate, Mayweather won’t fight.
Talk about finding a unique way to duck another boxer…
But that’s not all. Next, Oscar De La “I got destroyed by Manny Pacquiao” Hoya was alleged to have said that because Manny won’t go for the Mayweather okey-doke, De La “I still have Manny’s glove prints on my face’ Hoya says his fight against Pacquiao must be questioned.
As if Manny Pacquiao needed PEDs to slap around an over-the-hill, fluid-challenged boxer who had lost his hand and foot speed.
The real deal is probably much closer to this: somebody in the Mayweather camp has studied hundreds of hours of Pacquiao videos and knows with certainty that Floyd Mayweather cannot escape Manny. Not all Mayweather’s – and Mayweather, Sr. who started the PED rumor – back-pedaling, not all of his slap-and-run showboating can save him from a serious beat down at the hands of today’s best pound-for-pound boxer. Mayweather has no power – at least not near enough to hurt Pacquiao. Mayweather knows Pacquiao is as fast or faster than he is. Mayweather knows that Pacquiao can hurt him with punches to the body or the head – or worse, both and that Mayweather cannot dor the same to Pacquiao.
Floyd Mayweather’s loud-mouth daddy knows his son, the once “Pretty Boy” of boxing, is likely to get ugly if he steps into a ring against Freddie Roach’s charge; and somewhere in his head Floyd, Jr. knows, too.
Ask Ricky Hatton about Pacquiao. Ask his trainer – Floyd Mayweather, Sr. – who claimed Hatton would crush Pacquiao; Mayweather, Sr. who looked on stunned as Manny made Hatton look as slow-handed as a 50-year old in the ring – or as slow as De La Hoya; Mayweather, Sr. who looked on in shock as his best-laid plans for Hatton to defeat Pacquiao were best laid —— out on the canvas with Hatton knocked out.
Ask Miguel Cotto. Cotto was the true welterweight who was supposed to hit Pacquiao and let him know what it was like to be punched by a 147-pound man comfortable with that weight. And when Cotto slammed a few shots off Pacquiao’s jaw with no ill response by the man who had by then moved up in weight for the seventh time, Cotto appeared visibly fearful of what was to come. It turned out Cotto was right to be apprehensive. Pacquiao stalked Cotto and beat him like a rented mule. And a fight that should have been stopped during round nine was not ended for another nine brutal minutes of Manny Pacquiao violently punching a thoroughly beaten Miguel Cotto at will.
Ask Oscar De La Hoya.
Oh wait, don’t ask De La Hoya, he’s too busy trying to come out from under the ass-kicking he took from Pac Man, plus save Golden Boy Promotions from serious embarrassment if Mayweather and Pacquiao were to actually fight.
We should have known Floyd would pull a stunt like this to save his hide. We should have know that, with the contentious relationship between Bob Arum and anything Golden Boy, there would be shenanigans from the Golden Boy camp.
But De La Hoya himself? This is the guy who fought everyone in front of him for 15 years. This is the one guy who could think his way through fights just as well as punch his way through them. Until he met Manny Pacquiao, that is.
That Pacquiao humiliated De La Hoya is an understatement. Despite his best efforts, Oscar, like Hatton and Cotto found that once Pacquiao settled into the fight he could never once beat his opponent to the punch. And when De La Hoya realized he was always a half-beat slow, he was done. After the fight boxing writers commended De La Hoya for being gracious in defeat.
Little did anyone know De La Hoya had malice toward Pacquiao and dirty tricks up his sleeve. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Sr.? Sure. Particularly Sr. He is the master of the sour g**** cheap shot; whose ego is too large to internalize the fact that with Hatton he had a one-trick pony who would revert back to his old boxing ways as soon as trouble found him.
PEDs knocked out Ricky Hatton, really, I swear.
Mayweather, Sr. has surely watched the video of the pummeling Pacquiao laid on the man he trained, if for no other reason to exonerate himself from blame for Pac Man’s beat down of Hatton. And as much as Mayweather, Sr. despised what Pacquiao did to Hatton, he despises that it was Freddie Roach who out-flanked him as a trainer. Mayweather, Sr. must also hate that Roach called for a fight with his son as soon as the Cotto fight was done. And Mayweather, Sr. must really hate the fact that Freddie Roach has him figured out – as a trainer and as a man.
You see, Manny Pacquiao is a hero in the Phillipines, plus he’s the reigning WBO welterweight champion. Neither the Mayweathers nor De La Hoya, as challengers, can make any demands on the grounds of the fight; that is for the champion to do, if any demands are to be made at all. But
Mayweather, Jr. and De La Hoya are media savvy and know the press, in general, and even the boxing press will not hold their feet to the fire for demanding out of the norm drug testing before the fight and for insinuating that Pacquiao is the product of some nefarious drugs – which, by extension, makes Roach complicit in a PED-abuse scheme to “beat the game.” That De La Hoya would use his blog to accuse Pacquiao and did not go to the press is a red flag that the Golden Boy owner is resorting to punk maneuvers in a vainglorious attempt to get into Pacquiao’s head and under Roach’s skin; to throw the pair off just enough to gain some sort of advantage.
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By: dwil
Want some? Get some.
So, it’s done. There will be no March 13 fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. For Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya it came to using low-brow tactics to get under Pacquiao and an attempt to smear the Pac-Man in the press using the 21st century sports bogeyman: the specter of performance-enhancing drugs.
The misdeeds and foolish moves by Mayweather, his father, Floyd, Sr, and Golden Boy Productions led by De La Hoya cost the two camps at least 20 million dollars apiece and, for the moment, has blackened boxing’s eye… with mixed martial arts lurking in the background ready to drop the sweet science and step on its collective neck.
First it was Mayweather and his “people” demanding Olympic drug testing before the Pacquiao fight; if Pacquiao would not capitulate, Mayweather won’t fight.
Talk about finding a unique way to duck another boxer…
But that’s not all. Next, Oscar De La “I got destroyed by Manny Pacquiao” Hoya was alleged to have said that because Manny won’t go for the Mayweather okey-doke, De La “I still have Manny’s glove prints on my face’ Hoya says his fight against Pacquiao must be questioned.
As if Manny Pacquiao needed PEDs to slap around an over-the-hill, fluid-challenged boxer who had lost his hand and foot speed.
The real deal is probably much closer to this: somebody in the Mayweather camp has studied hundreds of hours of Pacquiao videos and knows with certainty that Floyd Mayweather cannot escape Manny. Not all Mayweather’s – and Mayweather, Sr. who started the PED rumor – back-pedaling, not all of his slap-and-run showboating can save him from a serious beat down at the hands of today’s best pound-for-pound boxer. Mayweather has no power – at least not near enough to hurt Pacquiao. Mayweather knows Pacquiao is as fast or faster than he is. Mayweather knows that Pacquiao can hurt him with punches to the body or the head – or worse, both and that Mayweather cannot dor the same to Pacquiao.
Floyd Mayweather’s loud-mouth daddy knows his son, the once “Pretty Boy” of boxing, is likely to get ugly if he steps into a ring against Freddie Roach’s charge; and somewhere in his head Floyd, Jr. knows, too.
Ask Ricky Hatton about Pacquiao. Ask his trainer – Floyd Mayweather, Sr. – who claimed Hatton would crush Pacquiao; Mayweather, Sr. who looked on stunned as Manny made Hatton look as slow-handed as a 50-year old in the ring – or as slow as De La Hoya; Mayweather, Sr. who looked on in shock as his best-laid plans for Hatton to defeat Pacquiao were best laid —— out on the canvas with Hatton knocked out.
Ask Miguel Cotto. Cotto was the true welterweight who was supposed to hit Pacquiao and let him know what it was like to be punched by a 147-pound man comfortable with that weight. And when Cotto slammed a few shots off Pacquiao’s jaw with no ill response by the man who had by then moved up in weight for the seventh time, Cotto appeared visibly fearful of what was to come. It turned out Cotto was right to be apprehensive. Pacquiao stalked Cotto and beat him like a rented mule. And a fight that should have been stopped during round nine was not ended for another nine brutal minutes of Manny Pacquiao violently punching a thoroughly beaten Miguel Cotto at will.
Ask Oscar De La Hoya.
Oh wait, don’t ask De La Hoya, he’s too busy trying to come out from under the ass-kicking he took from Pac Man, plus save Golden Boy Promotions from serious embarrassment if Mayweather and Pacquiao were to actually fight.
We should have known Floyd would pull a stunt like this to save his hide. We should have know that, with the contentious relationship between Bob Arum and anything Golden Boy, there would be shenanigans from the Golden Boy camp.
But De La Hoya himself? This is the guy who fought everyone in front of him for 15 years. This is the one guy who could think his way through fights just as well as punch his way through them. Until he met Manny Pacquiao, that is.
That Pacquiao humiliated De La Hoya is an understatement. Despite his best efforts, Oscar, like Hatton and Cotto found that once Pacquiao settled into the fight he could never once beat his opponent to the punch. And when De La Hoya realized he was always a half-beat slow, he was done. After the fight boxing writers commended De La Hoya for being gracious in defeat.
Little did anyone know De La Hoya had malice toward Pacquiao and dirty tricks up his sleeve. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Sr.? Sure. Particularly Sr. He is the master of the sour g**** cheap shot; whose ego is too large to internalize the fact that with Hatton he had a one-trick pony who would revert back to his old boxing ways as soon as trouble found him.
PEDs knocked out Ricky Hatton, really, I swear.
Mayweather, Sr. has surely watched the video of the pummeling Pacquiao laid on the man he trained, if for no other reason to exonerate himself from blame for Pac Man’s beat down of Hatton. And as much as Mayweather, Sr. despised what Pacquiao did to Hatton, he despises that it was Freddie Roach who out-flanked him as a trainer. Mayweather, Sr. must also hate that Roach called for a fight with his son as soon as the Cotto fight was done. And Mayweather, Sr. must really hate the fact that Freddie Roach has him figured out – as a trainer and as a man.
You see, Manny Pacquiao is a hero in the Phillipines, plus he’s the reigning WBO welterweight champion. Neither the Mayweathers nor De La Hoya, as challengers, can make any demands on the grounds of the fight; that is for the champion to do, if any demands are to be made at all. But
Mayweather, Jr. and De La Hoya are media savvy and know the press, in general, and even the boxing press will not hold their feet to the fire for demanding out of the norm drug testing before the fight and for insinuating that Pacquiao is the product of some nefarious drugs – which, by extension, makes Roach complicit in a PED-abuse scheme to “beat the game.” That De La Hoya would use his blog to accuse Pacquiao and did not go to the press is a red flag that the Golden Boy owner is resorting to punk maneuvers in a vainglorious attempt to get into Pacquiao’s head and under Roach’s skin; to throw the pair off just enough to gain some sort of advantage.
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