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Mitchell: Manny should do blood test
Kevin Mitchell believes Manny Pacquiao should accept Floyd Mayweather's drugs-testing demands if he is clean.
Boxing is in danger of being robbed of one of the biggest fights of all time with Mayweather refusing to meet his only pound-for-pound rival unless he accepts random the Olympic style blood testing that was in place for the American's stunning victory over Shane Mosley earlier this month. Mitchell, who faces Australian Michael Katsidis for the interim WBO lightweight title on Saturday, is su****ious when fighters retain their power through several weight divisions - as Pacquiao has done sensationally.
"I think Mayweather's got a fair point with the testing. If someone won't take a drug test then there's a problem there," he said.
"Mayweather's taken the test so what's the big deal? I'm not sure about Pacquiao's reason for not giving blood - that he feels weakened by it. I've never felt weakened giving blood, though maybe it's different for him.
"It's pretty impossible to win titles at flyweight all the way through to welterweight. I've come up from featherweight to lightweight. Now you try getting me up to middleweight. Even if I was lifting weights to reach that size I wouldn't be fit enough to box."
Mitchell believes British fighters are clean but fears the use of performance enhancing drugs in boxing is widespread across the Atlantic.
"I think the Americans have been doing it for years - they all fly through weight divisions but still look like He-Man," he said.
"British fighters such as Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe were beating Americans at their right weights, but when we go up a couple of weights we struggle for strength.
"The Americans go up five weights and are still smashing people. That only happens in comic books. Roy Jones and Shane Mosley have been caught and something's happening out there.
"British fighters are clean but I wouldn't put money on Americans being clean."
This hypejob Mitchell sounds more worried about Manny/Floyd/Khan than about his own fights, Why does this bum think he has any right to talk about these Class A+ fighters?
Im glad he got knocked out by Katsidis, Mitchell needed a reality check and I was sick of hearing about him.
Kevin Mitchell believes Manny Pacquiao should accept Floyd Mayweather's drugs-testing demands if he is clean.
Boxing is in danger of being robbed of one of the biggest fights of all time with Mayweather refusing to meet his only pound-for-pound rival unless he accepts random the Olympic style blood testing that was in place for the American's stunning victory over Shane Mosley earlier this month. Mitchell, who faces Australian Michael Katsidis for the interim WBO lightweight title on Saturday, is su****ious when fighters retain their power through several weight divisions - as Pacquiao has done sensationally.
"I think Mayweather's got a fair point with the testing. If someone won't take a drug test then there's a problem there," he said.
"Mayweather's taken the test so what's the big deal? I'm not sure about Pacquiao's reason for not giving blood - that he feels weakened by it. I've never felt weakened giving blood, though maybe it's different for him.
"It's pretty impossible to win titles at flyweight all the way through to welterweight. I've come up from featherweight to lightweight. Now you try getting me up to middleweight. Even if I was lifting weights to reach that size I wouldn't be fit enough to box."
Mitchell believes British fighters are clean but fears the use of performance enhancing drugs in boxing is widespread across the Atlantic.
"I think the Americans have been doing it for years - they all fly through weight divisions but still look like He-Man," he said.
"British fighters such as Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe were beating Americans at their right weights, but when we go up a couple of weights we struggle for strength.
"The Americans go up five weights and are still smashing people. That only happens in comic books. Roy Jones and Shane Mosley have been caught and something's happening out there.
"British fighters are clean but I wouldn't put money on Americans being clean."
This hypejob Mitchell sounds more worried about Manny/Floyd/Khan than about his own fights, Why does this bum think he has any right to talk about these Class A+ fighters?
Im glad he got knocked out by Katsidis, Mitchell needed a reality check and I was sick of hearing about him.
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