Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Pacquiao: Roach Has a Drug Testing Solution

[IMDAZED]

well at least you're being honest with that...can't expect the same from other floyd fans.
that's probably why floyd didn't bother to have his undercard fights to undergo ost because those are mismatches like jm cotto is not at all a threat to saul alvarez...

Probably. Like most fighters, he's egotistical and looking out for himself. But the bottom line is that Pacquiao made excuses, lies and contradictions when faced with the drug testing. Simple.

[V.WEBB]

And now Floyd is going to throw in his PPV numbers with Mosley as a negotiating tactic with Pac, because it gives him an exit strategy as per usual.

I guarantee you, in fact I rarely bet but if Mayweather's next fight is against someone on the level of a Clottey (in other words a fighter with no name recognition) in addition to having no HBO 24/7 promo, I will bet the house he won't do more than 700,000 PPV buys.

That is called leverage.

[switchsouthpaw]

The random drug tests in question is urine, not blood. Catch up.

Roach and Arum have gone on record as saying they are willing to take randomized blood tests, even post fight, all they are asking for is a cut-off date, the link is present on the homepage of this site....read...read...read.

[IMDAZED]

How did Pac ignore them...explain?

He ignores them every time he creates his own rules. We've been through this a million times, stop acting naive.

[IMDAZED]

Roach and Arum have gone on record as saying they are willing to take randomized blood tests, even post fight, all they are asking for is a cut-off date, the link is present on the homepage of this site....read...read...read.

I've read. And knowing when two of three blood tests will be taken while asking for a cutoff for the third is not random. You've got to be a real idiot to think that. Think...think...think.

[brick wall]

Probably. Like most fighters, he's egotistical and looking out for himself. But the bottom line is that Pacquiao made excuses, lies and contradictions when faced with the drug testing. Simple.

so if pac just said no without offering any explanation you would've been fine with that?

[switchsouthpaw]

Funny, I could've sworn he's fighting Shane on Saturday. Guess the OST wasn't an exit strategy after all. Pacquiao had a 50-50 split and turned it down. Go ask him why.


Who cares? Again, Mayweather was down for a 50-50 split. Only reason the fight didn't happen was because **insert lie/excuse here**

Who else was Mayweather going to fight...Matthew Hatton? C'mon give me some names??? The guy would have been roasted if he didn't take on a viable threat, and this is his first real test at 147, and he joined the division in 2005, you don't believe me then defer to Manny Steward,Larry Merchant, Dougie Fischer and Dan Rafael of ESPN, as they're all in agreement with respect to that same opinion.

And then you ask who cares? Anyone who loves the sport of boxing and not just individual fighters. I am pretty sure they all care.

[Vasyl’s dad]

What people like you fail to realize is that Floyd didn't create the protocol the USADA uses. So when the USADA says we are taking x amount of blood and urine tests up to the day of the fight, they are following their own orders.

It doesn't strike you as odd that Pacquiao wants a cutoff date?

Or that he wanted a cap on the # of tests he was given?

Or that he was telling the USADA how to do their job yet, "doesn't even know what a steroid is?"

I'll tell you what strikes me as odd.

This strikes me as odd.

Floyd went 40 fights without ever requesting any sort of extra testing from any other fighters.


With Floyds reluctance to make OSTs a part of his past fights, it makes me wonder just how long he was using PEDs.

[BuckToothed]

I don't need to read your post to know what Pacquiao wanted. The issue was with blood testing. First, he asked for the # of tests to be cut down from 5-7 to 3. Which was agreed to. Then he asked for two of the three tests to be on a specific date (of his choosing) and for the third to be in a certain window (of his choosing).

Rationalize that all you want.

First, what I listed are the last conditions right before the fight was called off. No need to bring up initial stipulations when those have been renegotiated.

Second, don't reply to a post you didn't read... it only adds to the confusion.

[switchsouthpaw]

He ignores them every time he creates his own rules. We've been through this a million times, stop acting naive.

Lol how am I being naive, or would you prefer to say that you simply can't explain logically? I'm waiting educate us all....