Mayweather's message to Pacquaio.
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Solid stuff.
by John Martinez
Boxscore News - Texas
August 18, 2010
You ever get those calls on your phone where you don't recognize the number calling you so you let the phone ring until it goes to voice mail?
Usually this will suffice the caller's needs and they will proceed with leaving a voice message in your mail center and wait for your return contact. However, every now and again, the caller will be persistent and leaving a message will only go so far in their eyes. They need more.
Well three calls and one voice message (marked urgent on my cell phone) later, it was apparent that someone was itching to "reach out and touch someone,"me. The person with the itch was none other than Roger Mayweather.
Needless to say, I returned his calls.
"This fight has to happen; we want this fight," exclaimed Roger Mayweather. "The fight for my nephew is Manny. This is the fight that makes the most sense when talking about money making, but also, this fight has to happen cause it's important to the fans. The people want to see this fight and they should get what they want."
He continued, "I'm hearing people say my nephew's (multi-world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr.) scared of Manny Pacquiao. Floyd ain't scared of Manny. Lil' Floyd ain't scared of ****, why should he be," Mayweather continued, " let me ask this question, who's been knocked out twice?"
Roger is clearly talking about the two pound for pound combatants that were expected to do battle in the "biggest fight in boxing history" sometime this year-undefeated slick boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the crowd pleasing heavy handed Manny Pacquiao. However, the dream fight that was, failed to materialize and since has become a nightmare for all involved.
From the network suits to the promoters all the way down to the sweet science fans themselves and everyone in between, the sentiment is mutual, we've all been robbed of witnessing greatness in the squared circle.
Many people are blaming Floyd Mayweather Jr. for this fight not taking place. Originally, the fight was proposed with stipulations from the Mayweather camp that Pacquiao submit to random blood tests prior to the fight.
Pacquiao scoffed at this request believing that taking blood from his body would hinder his ability to be at full strength for the fight. Because of this, the fight was nixed until talks allegedly resumed again over the summer. This time, Pacquiao stated he would be willing to partake in blood tests, but only if the tests were scheduled to cease fourteen days prior to the scheduled bout with Mayweather.
With that, Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum from Top Rank boxing, initialized a very public deadline for Mayweather to agree to these terms or forfeit the chance to dethrone the "People's Champion." The deadline came and went and no one has heard much from the Mayweather camp about this matter until now.
"The only reason this fight hasn't happened is because Manny won't agree to random blood tests throughout training camp," Roger said. "This motherf**ker says he agreed to tests, but he really didn't," Mayweather continues, "he wants to know when these tests are happening and he wants them to end at a certain time. How the **** is that random drug testing?"
He then asks, "if you got nothing to hide, then why be so concerned about when you gotta take a drug test? How you gonna leave over 100 million dollars on the table cause you don't want to take random drug tests leading up to the fight?"
"I know why? Cause you got something to hide," said Roger.
As for Manny, he has always claimed he has nothing to hide. Questioned as to why Floyd is adamant about cleaning up the sport of boxing via random blood tests. Why now? Why go 40 bouts into your career and suddenly demand your opponents submit to Olympic style testing?
Mayweather answered, "my nephew brought this testing up because going into the fight with Shane Mosley, Shane had a history of using substances. And now with Manny, we got our su****ions."
"Floyd ain't asking no one to do nothing that he isn't willing to do himself."
"You saw what happened when we got Shane in that ring; Floyd put an ass whooping on him and guess what, we got the same for Manny too," said Mayweather.
Roger continued, "we got something for this mother f**ker. He ain't doing nothing but living on borrowed time and he knows it."
"Manny can't fight. He ain't ****."
Mayweather then turned his ire to me, "I heard you thought it would take my nephew eight rounds to finish Pacquiao. You're crazy."
"You must be being kind, but blind," he added, " Floyd won't take eight rounds to finish Manny. How can you say it'll take eight rounds when this ****ing bum(Manny) swings wild, has no head movement or defense and ain't got no ****ing skills in the ring?"
Mayweather offers yet another question to his captive audience, "who the **** has two close fights with (Juan Manuel)Marquez?"
"Manny does. He's a ****ing bum living on borrowed time and we got something for ass."
"The year ain't over yet and there's still plenty of time to fight."
"I'm sure you'll see Floyd fight before the year's out," proclaimed Mayweather.
Aside from revealing his belief that Floyd will fight in the near future, he finished with a message to Manny Pacquiao.
"Come on mother f**cker, meet us."
In future piece, Roger and I discuss Cotto, catchweights, and the upcoming Antonio Margarito/Manny Pacquiao title fight.
John Martinez is a writer for both Boxscore News and FightChronicles.com.
Then again, Roger M is complaining "how is it random testing if it's cut off 14 days before the fight", etc. Weeeellll the 14 days was a condition orogonally instituted by his beloved nephew. ALSO, what the hell difference does the word "random" make? If the fighter doesn't know when the test will take place (a la "random") IF AT ALL.... he will avoid taking the forbidden drugs (which he likely is not taking anyway) and if he knows that the testing will end 14 days before the fight, he will ALSO avoid taking the drugs.
To suddenly begin taking drugs 13 days before a fight, cannot be good for the fighter, with also the STRONG chance that it will be revealed by the BLOOD TEST taken IMMEDIATELY after the fight.
This "RANDOM" piece of c****roo is just that, DREK!Comment
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What the **** are you talking about? They did agree to the tests, yet idiots will scream 'buh buh buh, that's not full OST (even though it was FLOYD who originally called for 14-days and he and his parrot fans thought it was a great compromise'. Full OST is testing year round, out of competition... not just 2 months before a Mayweather fight, with blood testing ending 18-19 days before the bout.
And Roger and co. are adamant that this will be an 'easy fight' but they won't let Floyd step in the ring until he feels safe because Manny is so threatening? This makes logical sense to you?Comment
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full OSTD is 1 whole year not 2 months... i thought the *****s are ped experts , this is the most ducked question by the *****s so i dont expect any answer
i expect floyd has been roiding at the moment while vacationing... perfect planComment
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To bad this article is inaccurate. Pac did not "scoff" at drug testing orignally. He and his team agreed to OSDT, then that was changed to 3day(?), then 5, then 30then, after it was proven that he had taken blood within 24 days of that Hatton fight, it was changed to 24 days.
How do u go from accepting OSDT to 30 days? If he he felt it weakened him so much, why agree in the beginning? They had so many stories about why they didn't want the drug testing, that it made things look REALLY su****ious.
FMJ gets called out for changing his stance on the 50-50, even though he is the PPV king and deserves more. When Pac changes his mind on OSDT he gets a pass and FMJ gets blamed for asking for it.
"They asked for OSDT, we said no problem"-Freddie Roach
That was occupied by Manny P. who did NOTHING to lose it. Mayweather beat a very much "out-of-sorts" Shane Mosley, which could not have qualified him to leap over the #1 whom, from his actions, everyone thinks he is avoiding.Comment
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This Roger Mayweather is "romancing". he has his "facts" a little out of place. Mayweather did NOT decide he wanted these random tests "because he was fighting Mosley" etc.etc. He only fought Mosley AFTER the Manny P. fight failed.
Then again, Roger M is complaining "how is it random testing if it's cut off 14 days before the fight", etc. Weeeellll the 14 days was a condition orogonally instituted by his beloved nephew. ALSO, what the hell difference does the word "random" make? If the fighter doesn't know when the test will take place (a la "random") IF AT ALL.... he will avoid taking the forbidden drugs (which he likely is not taking anyway) and if he knows that the testing will end 14 days before the fight, he will ALSO avoid taking the drugs.
To suddenly begin taking drugs 13 days before a fight, cannot be good for the fighter, with also the STRONG chance that it will be revealed by the BLOOD TEST taken IMMEDIATELY after the fight.
This "RANDOM" piece of c****roo is just that, DREK!Comment
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I do NOT see how Mayweather has suddenly been elevated to the position of # 1 Lb for Lb.
That was occupied by Manny P. who did NOTHING to lose it. Mayweather beat a very much "out-of-sorts" Shane Mosley, which could not have qualified him to leap over the #1 whom, from his actions, everyone thinks he is avoiding.Comment
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