The Real Reason Pacquiao-Mayweather Fell Apart?

[Heru]

Ken Porter, who trains his undefeated junior middleweight son, said he was not as surprised as most that the ballyhooed megamatch between Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. fell apart, reportedly over drug-testing issues.

"No, not at all," said Porter, who thinks both fighters wanted more time to prepare before the proposed March 13 date. "We were with Manny after [the Cotto fight in November]. We rode the team bus four hours back to Los Angeles. He had some injuries. The body needs time to heal and it would have been too soon to go against Mayweather.

'"It will happen eventually," Porter said. "But you don't know what's going to happen in between. Then they will build it up."

I looked for this with the search and didn't find it. Ken Porter's take on this sounds feasible, but it would mean all that posturing was for nothing. Why would this be ignored?

And now he's sparring Steve Forbes... For who? For Clottey?

[-The Glove-]

I kinda had an inkling this could be one of the main reasons.

[-Boxzilla-]

well hes on the inside so what hes say has gotta mean something ... but if hes implying that they refused the testing only to buy more time, that would have to be the worst business decision ever. it made manny look terrible and they ended up fighting on that date anyway so it dont really add up to me ...

tho i do think roach wanted more prep time for a bout with floyd

[The Gambler1981]

It makes sencee and it also causes public bad blood between the men. It is only getting talked about more now so people are basically going to think the guys hate each other. It was kind of a silly reason to kill the fight and one would think it is kind of damaging but I think a lot of it is overblown.

It is still the biggest fight out there and if both men win their next fights they are still the biggest scalp for both guys. You have to think both sides will give it a second go around.

[Heru]

well hes on the inside so what hes say has gotta mean something ... but if hes implying that they refused the testing only to buy more time, that would have to be the worst business decision ever. it made manny look terrible and they ended up fighting on that date anyway

True, but it's not against a Mayweather caliber opponent. It was definitely a bad PR move if it's true though.

I remember Roach talking about it taking a long time to get Manny to figure out Mayweather's style. And that he'd need more time than the 2-3 months that were available.

[Ray*]

When some Pac fans were screaming that Mayweather is ducking Pac after listening to Roach i said it at that time that a March 13th fight would not be in the best interest of Pac or an unbiase fan who is lookiing for a 50-50 fight, Because there is NO way Pac would be ready for Mayweather in March after a brutal fight against Cotto.

But all they were doing was screaming just because Roach said Mayweather doesnt want to fight us in March, Mayweather accept the fight then they looked for a way out, They thought they had it with the 10M dollar ridiculous penalty but to everyones surprise Mayweather said yes to that too, They had to go back and reject the same olympic style testing that they had already accept from the beginning.

The fight would happen for september and Pac would say yes to testing watch.

[Biolink]

This honestly makes the most sense.

Both fighters would have to train a lot longer in preparation for each other.

Still, it would have been easier to just outright say they needed more time rather than making Pacquiao look dirty to some people.

[El Castigador]

Roach knew they weren't ready.

[The Gambler1981]

It is a bad PR move but the public is not always that easy to fool. Straight up if it is some kind of ploy no one in the whole of the US would think they would go this route solely because of the stigma around PED. It is kind of a good plan if that is what they want to accomplish.

Besides Manny can just agree to the tests next time, it doesn't completely make it go away especially if the fight goes poorly but Manny will have never tested positive and agreed to the random testing it would be hard to really go after him on the issue.

[-Boxzilla-]

It is a bad PR move but the public is not always that easy to fool. Straight up if it is some kind of ploy no one in the whole of the US would think they would go this route solely because of the stigma around PED. It is kind of a good plan if that is what they want to accomplish.

Besides Manny can just agree to the tests next time, it doesn't completely make it go away especially if the fight goes poorly but Manny will have never tested positive and agreed to the random testing it would be hard to really go after him on the issue.

if the manny does do poorly then many will just make the assumption theres the before and the after ...