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Golden Boy troops leave General Floyd Mayweather's foxhole
Golden Boy troops leave General Floyd Mayweather's foxhole
February 13, 11:48 AM
Boxing Examiner
by Michael Marley
Is financially hungry Sugar Shane Mosley the lone soldier backing General Mayweather's drug crusade?
He thinks he's leading a revolution in boxing.
He thinks he is, or he wants us to think he is, "Mister Clean."
He's the field general, commanding the troops into the endless war against drug cheating by fighters.
His name is Floyd Mayweather Jr., and I've got a depressing news flash for him. Behind his back, while he was looking into the horizon and focusing on Manny Pacquiao as a dirty dog, there have been major desertions in Mayweather's reform movement.
This may be a volunteer army and, if so, I foresee Mayweather fighting by himself going forward.
Even his self chosen promoter, Golden Boy, has left the fistic foxhole and hightailed it as fast as possible away from the battle scene.
Yes sir, General Mayweather has no lieutenants, no sargeants, not even a buck private asnwering his battle cry.
Yes, steroid cheater and Golden Boy VP Sugar Shane Mosley agreed to random blood and urine testing--be prepared for a knock on your Big Bear Lake training camp door at midnight, my man--but it seems as though no other boxers are enlisting in Mayweather's cause.
"I want to clean up sports, period," Mayweather told Jamie Foxx on his Sirius satelitte radio program in which the funnyman/singer/actor ****** up to "Money" almost as much as I do to Megamanny.
Hey, I said almost, Foxx needs more practice and better kneepads.
"It's not just boxing," Mayweather said.
Then Mayweather goes into a nonsensical rap about how boxing abandoned the same day weigh in (a ****** move by the way) and demands HIV tests.
"Out with the old, in with the new," Crusader Mayweather spouted.
"I'm making a stand in my sport."
General Mayweather's Lonely War Drags On (Golden Boy/Hogan Photos)
Mayweather is standing allright, standing alone. Mosley only agreed to the random testing out of desperation, the man hasn't fought in 13 months and his efforts to land a Pacman bout were for naught.
But wait, the futility, the idea that Mayweather is Don Quioxte, tilting at windmills, is clearly borne out by remarks Golden Guy and Boxing Banker (I said banker, not bunco) Richie Rich Schaefer made to columnist George Willis of the New York Post.
Evdiently, Schaefer has dropped his durg reform flag except for Mayweather bouts.
"I do believe the time is here to introduce blood testing to the sport of boxing but it's not up to me," Schaefer said while in New York for the Roy Jones-Bernard Hopkins press conference.
"I'm not the commissioner. If a fighter asks for a specific contractual deal terms as far as blood testing or the size of the ring or they gloves they basically become contractual deal points," Schaefer said.
Guess RR is not in the foxhole any longer, General Floyd.
I've no medical expertise but look for Oscar de la Hoya to get laryngitis on this issue shortly. It could be a length bout of silence for "Old Clean Hands."
What else can the intelligent Schaefer say when Hopkins, a physical marvel at age 45, and the 39 year old Jones won't submit themselves to any random blood or urine testing for their April 3 rematch in Las Vegas?
Oh, speaking of steroid cheaters, lest we forget...Roy was nabbed using steroids after a 2000 bout against Richard Hall in Indianapolis.
So Hopkins doesn't care about drug test reform and neither does Jones.
You can bet dollars to doughnuts that New York won't implement random testing for the May 15 Paulie Malignaggi-Amir Khan bout.
Ditto for New Jersey when it hosts Sergio Martinez-Kelly Pavlik on April 17.
When it comes to military leadership, Floyd Mayweather is not getting properly saluted.
Worse, he's been abandoned.
Maybe it's a certain Filipino who is the target here.
Mayweather's War goes on but he may start getting lonely.
The war is not over yet but I've got the deserters ahead on points
February 13, 11:48 AM
Boxing Examiner
by Michael Marley
Is financially hungry Sugar Shane Mosley the lone soldier backing General Mayweather's drug crusade?
He thinks he's leading a revolution in boxing.
He thinks he is, or he wants us to think he is, "Mister Clean."
He's the field general, commanding the troops into the endless war against drug cheating by fighters.
His name is Floyd Mayweather Jr., and I've got a depressing news flash for him. Behind his back, while he was looking into the horizon and focusing on Manny Pacquiao as a dirty dog, there have been major desertions in Mayweather's reform movement.
This may be a volunteer army and, if so, I foresee Mayweather fighting by himself going forward.
Even his self chosen promoter, Golden Boy, has left the fistic foxhole and hightailed it as fast as possible away from the battle scene.
Yes sir, General Mayweather has no lieutenants, no sargeants, not even a buck private asnwering his battle cry.
Yes, steroid cheater and Golden Boy VP Sugar Shane Mosley agreed to random blood and urine testing--be prepared for a knock on your Big Bear Lake training camp door at midnight, my man--but it seems as though no other boxers are enlisting in Mayweather's cause.
"I want to clean up sports, period," Mayweather told Jamie Foxx on his Sirius satelitte radio program in which the funnyman/singer/actor ****** up to "Money" almost as much as I do to Megamanny.
Hey, I said almost, Foxx needs more practice and better kneepads.
"It's not just boxing," Mayweather said.
Then Mayweather goes into a nonsensical rap about how boxing abandoned the same day weigh in (a ****** move by the way) and demands HIV tests.
"Out with the old, in with the new," Crusader Mayweather spouted.
"I'm making a stand in my sport."
General Mayweather's Lonely War Drags On (Golden Boy/Hogan Photos)
Mayweather is standing allright, standing alone. Mosley only agreed to the random testing out of desperation, the man hasn't fought in 13 months and his efforts to land a Pacman bout were for naught.
But wait, the futility, the idea that Mayweather is Don Quioxte, tilting at windmills, is clearly borne out by remarks Golden Guy and Boxing Banker (I said banker, not bunco) Richie Rich Schaefer made to columnist George Willis of the New York Post.
Evdiently, Schaefer has dropped his durg reform flag except for Mayweather bouts.
"I do believe the time is here to introduce blood testing to the sport of boxing but it's not up to me," Schaefer said while in New York for the Roy Jones-Bernard Hopkins press conference.
"I'm not the commissioner. If a fighter asks for a specific contractual deal terms as far as blood testing or the size of the ring or they gloves they basically become contractual deal points," Schaefer said.
Guess RR is not in the foxhole any longer, General Floyd.
I've no medical expertise but look for Oscar de la Hoya to get laryngitis on this issue shortly. It could be a length bout of silence for "Old Clean Hands."
What else can the intelligent Schaefer say when Hopkins, a physical marvel at age 45, and the 39 year old Jones won't submit themselves to any random blood or urine testing for their April 3 rematch in Las Vegas?
Oh, speaking of steroid cheaters, lest we forget...Roy was nabbed using steroids after a 2000 bout against Richard Hall in Indianapolis.
So Hopkins doesn't care about drug test reform and neither does Jones.
You can bet dollars to doughnuts that New York won't implement random testing for the May 15 Paulie Malignaggi-Amir Khan bout.
Ditto for New Jersey when it hosts Sergio Martinez-Kelly Pavlik on April 17.
When it comes to military leadership, Floyd Mayweather is not getting properly saluted.
Worse, he's been abandoned.
Maybe it's a certain Filipino who is the target here.
Mayweather's War goes on but he may start getting lonely.
The war is not over yet but I've got the deserters ahead on points
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