Mayweather Jr up against the deadline by Dan Rafael

[IMDAZED]

I've come to the conclusion you don't want this fight to happen for some reason. Very defensive man.

Defense wins championships.

[Pacquiao'd]

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Mayweather continues to demand Olympic-style testing, which is conducted by the United States Anti Doping Agency. Its protocol calls for random urine and blood testing throughout the training camps, fight week -- even the day of the fight -- and immediately after the fight. According to Leonard Ellerbe, a Mayweather adviser, that means something like three to five blood tests and 10 to 12 urine tests over an approximately 10-week period.

Arum said Pacquiao would submit to three blood tests, even though he would prefer not to have his blood drawn at all.

"Manny will submit to as many random urine tests requested," Arum said. "Regarding the blood tests, he will subject himself to three tests -- one given in January during the week the fight is formally announced, one 30 days from the fight, no later than Feb. 13, and the final one immediately following the fight, in Manny's locker room.

Damn!

powned......

[IMDAZED]

I'm beginning to think *****s are just fine with Mayweather not fighting pac.

For them it's all about "dat 0".

People want Arum to stop ****ing around and come correct. That's all. No one wants to see Pac-Cotto II. Tell Manny to take the ****ing tests and lets get this done. Simple.

[jrosales13]

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Mayweather continues to demand Olympic-style testing, which is conducted by the United States Anti Doping Agency. Its protocol calls for random urine and blood testing throughout the training camps, fight week -- even the day of the fight -- and immediately after the fight. According to Leonard Ellerbe, a Mayweather adviser, that means something like three to five blood tests and 10 to 12 urine tests over an approximately 10-week period.

Arum said Pacquiao would submit to three blood tests, even though he would prefer not to have his blood drawn at all.

"Manny will submit to as many random urine tests requested," Arum said. "Regarding the blood tests, he will subject himself to three tests -- one given in January during the week the fight is formally announced, one 30 days from the fight, no later than Feb. 13, and the final one immediately following the fight, in Manny's locker room.

Damn!

Does Pac still has this stance? I thought now it was 14 day cut off but everything random up to those 14 days?

[-Kev-]

to see him lose.

thats why him and mosley got a lot of ppv sales, the boxing world actually believed floyd might just get his first lost, a KO even from mosley.
to me, huge ppv sales takes 2 to tango.

but pac can drew ppl in with any boxer he fights. remember pac vs clottey? sure it may not match up to the mayweather vs mosley fight, but if it were a mayweather vs clottey fight, it wouldnt come even CLOSE to pac vs clottey.

you think 50,000 came to the stadium just to see clottey?! hahahaha
if floyd were there instead, he'd be lucky to reach that number.

BTW, numbers don't lie.

Mayweather has sold more PPV's against common opponents than Pacquiao.

Your claim about Mayweather-Clottey wouldn't do more than Pacquiao-Clottey, has nothin to back it up whatesoever.

DLH: Mayweather 2.4Mill; Pac 1.2Mill(Mayweather doubled)

Hatton: Mayweather 950k; Pac 800k

Marquez: Mayweather 1.1 Mill; Pac 450k(Mayweather more than doubled)

[FloppyDiskz]

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Bracing for the increasing likelihood that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will not fight Manny Pacquiao in November, Pacquiao's adviser has met with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum in Las Vegas to look over alternative plans.

Mayweather has until the end of the week. He could wait until the last minute. If it's Friday and it's 11 p.m., and he says we have a deal, we have a deal.
” -- Bob Arum, Top Rank promoter

While awaiting Mayweather's decision -- Arum told ESPN.com that Friday is the deadline -- Michael Koncz and Arum on Monday discussed proposals for Pacquiao to fight former welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito or face Miguel Cotto in a rematch in the event Mayweather declines the Nov. 13 fight.

"We're ready to go on with the Mayweather fight," Arum said, "but we have to make contingency plans just in case and I don't really want to talk about that too much. But Mayweather has until the end of the week. He could wait until the last minute. If it's Friday and it's 11 p.m., and he says we have a deal, we have a deal."

Arum and Koncz said they were hopeful Mayweather would accept the deal, but that they had to be prepared in the event he doesn't. Arum has said for weeks that Mayweather's camp has a contract for the fight and that Pacquiao has accepted the terms, including provisions for drug testing (blood and urine) leading up to the bout.

When Pacquiao and Mayweather were negotiating during December and January for a fight in March, the talks fell apart when they could not come to an agreement on drug testing protocol.

Pacquiao then went on to easily outpoint Joshua Clottey to retain his welterweight title in March, while Mayweather dominated Shane Mosley in May.

"We're waiting on Floyd," Arum said. "He might not want to fight again this year. If he wants to say, 'See you next year,' there's always next year. But I don't think we can't wait much longer for him to make up his mind because if we do the fight we want to make it as big as we can make it, and that takes time. I think Floyd will give us the courtesy of a response one way or the other. What that response will be, I really don't know.

"That's the fight we want and that's the fight we're in for, but if we can't do that fight there are other opponents."

Koncz and Arum wouldn't go into specifics of the terms on the table for the fight with Mayweather but Koncz said "a 50-50 deal was proposed and there was no argument against it."

Koncz said Pacquiao wants to fight Mayweather, which would match the universally regarded top two fighters in boxing and one many believe would set pay-per-view and revenue records, but is prepared to move on.

"We don't know what Mayweather is going to do. Last week, I had dinner with Cotto in Puerto Rico to see where he stands and he's willing and able to do a rematch with Manny," Koncz said. "Bob and I have spoken about both fights, Cotto and Margarito. Manny asked me to get proposals from Bob on both fights, so that's what I am doing.

"We haven't heard back from Floyd yet and if we don't in the next few days, we will enter into a deal with one of the other fighters. Bob and I have spoken about both Cotto and Margarito. We will have a done deal and a signed contract for a fight by the end of this month, whoever it's against -- Mayweather, Cotto or Margarito."

Pacquiao's victory against Cotto netted him a title in a record seventh weight division. If he fights either Cotto or Margarito, Arum said Pacquiao will move up to the 154-pound junior middleweight division and fight for a belt in a record-extending eighth weight class. Pacquiao has already won titles at 112, 122, 126, 130, 135, 140 and 147 pounds.

If Pacquiao were to fight Cotto, Arum said he would challenge for Cotto's WBA belt. After the loss to Pacquiao, Cotto bounced back by moving up in weight and stopping Yuri Foreman on June 5 to win a junior middleweight belt.

If Pacquiao were to fight Margarito, Arum said they would meet for the vacant WBC version of the title, which Sergio Martinez relinquished after he won the middleweight championship in April.

A potential fight with Margarito, however, is complicated by the fact that he is not licensed in the United States because of the 2009 scandal in which he attempted to wear loaded hand wraps for his eventual knockout loss to Mosley. Nevada regulators tabled Margarito's application for a license last week and said it would not vote on it until Margarito first went before the California commission that revoked his license after last year's incident.

Arum and Koncz both said that if the Margarito fight comes to fruition and he is still unlicensed in the United States, they would consider an international location.

"It would be nice to have the fight in Las Vegas, but we can fight anywhere," Koncz said.

Pacquiao's 12th-round knockout win against Cotto drew 1.25 million pay-per-view buys and generated $70 million in domestic television revenue. However a rematch, or one with Margarito, would probably be more of a hard sell compared to one with Mayweather. The hand-wrap scandal has tarnished Margarito's reputation. Pacquiao's fight with Cotto did big business but it had a definitive conclusion and a rematch is not a fight that fans are demanding.

Drug testing no longer an issue. SIGN THE CONTRACT FLOYD!

[IMDAZED]

Does Pac still has this stance? I thought now it was 14 day cut off but everything random up to those 14 days?

We'll find out soon enough. I suspect the #s are still the same. Keep in mind Floyd agreed to cut down the tests, then agreed to the cutoff. So I suspect Manny's new request is just the same old one.

[FloppyDiskz]

If what Raphael reports is true and team Pac has indeed accepted Floyd's drug testing demands, I don't see how one can't blame Floyd for not taking this fight.

I'll wait until Floyd's Team responds before passing judgement.

[Wreckless]

BTW, numbers don't lie.

Mayweather has sold more PPV's against common opponents than Pacquiao.

Your claim about Mayweather-Clottey wouldn't do more than Pacquiao-Clottey, has nothin to back it up whatesoever.

DLH: Mayweather 2.4Mill; Pac 1.2Mill(Mayweather doubled)

Hatton: Mayweather 950k; Pac 800k

Marquez: Mayweather 1.1 Mill; Pac 450k(Mayweather more than doubled)

haha you must seriously be delusional Pacquaio-Hatton and Mayweather-Hatton both did 850k buys.

You also didn't put into account Pac wasn't nearly as popular in the DLH and Marquez fights, as he is now.

[Carpe Diem]

Pac vs Cotto II in November...Book it!