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Pacman comes clean in
drug test Cebu Daily News
First Posted 07:24:00 05/17/2011 Filed Under: Pacquiao, Illegal drugs MANILA, Philippines — Pound-for-pound king
Manny Pacquiao is clean. That's the message from
Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith
Kizer Sunday after the results of two
fight-night urine tests of Pacquiao and
Sugar Shane Mosley “came back negative.” Kizer told the Philippine Daily Inquirer
that one urine sample was taken
before and another after their bout for
the WBO welterweight title on May 7 in
Las Vegas, which Pacquiao easily won
by unanimous decision. Kizer said the Filipino superstar has
always been tested before and after
his fights in Las Vegas, and has never
failed a drug test. The NSAC medical report comes in the
wake of a looming court suit over
allegations by an anonymous
individual in an Internet site that a
Filipino sparring partner had revealed
that he injected Pacquiao with steroids. The story was picked up by Mosley
and Floyd Mayweather Jr. on their
Twitter accounts, prompting
Pacquiao's lawyers to study the
possible filing of a court case. The Internet story was quickly pulled
out after Pacquiao reportedly
requested the FBI to trace the source. There was more good news for the
Pacquiao camp. The pay-per-view
numbers for the Mosley fight
generated anywhere between 1.3
million and 1.4 million buys with the
final numbers expected later this week. Pacquiao's highest PPV numbers was
registered against Oscar De La Hoya,
who quit on his stool at the end of the
eighth round in June 2008. That fight
attracted 1.25 million buys. Top Rank chief Bob Arum earlier
predicted that the cross-promotions
by the US network CBS of the fight,
which was telecast by “Showtime,” would help boost PPV buys. Gate receipts at the MGM Grand Garden
Arena amounted to over $8.8 million
with a substantial percentage going to
the WBO welterweight champion. /
INQUIRER
drug test Cebu Daily News
First Posted 07:24:00 05/17/2011 Filed Under: Pacquiao, Illegal drugs MANILA, Philippines — Pound-for-pound king
Manny Pacquiao is clean. That's the message from
Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith
Kizer Sunday after the results of two
fight-night urine tests of Pacquiao and
Sugar Shane Mosley “came back negative.” Kizer told the Philippine Daily Inquirer
that one urine sample was taken
before and another after their bout for
the WBO welterweight title on May 7 in
Las Vegas, which Pacquiao easily won
by unanimous decision. Kizer said the Filipino superstar has
always been tested before and after
his fights in Las Vegas, and has never
failed a drug test. The NSAC medical report comes in the
wake of a looming court suit over
allegations by an anonymous
individual in an Internet site that a
Filipino sparring partner had revealed
that he injected Pacquiao with steroids. The story was picked up by Mosley
and Floyd Mayweather Jr. on their
Twitter accounts, prompting
Pacquiao's lawyers to study the
possible filing of a court case. The Internet story was quickly pulled
out after Pacquiao reportedly
requested the FBI to trace the source. There was more good news for the
Pacquiao camp. The pay-per-view
numbers for the Mosley fight
generated anywhere between 1.3
million and 1.4 million buys with the
final numbers expected later this week. Pacquiao's highest PPV numbers was
registered against Oscar De La Hoya,
who quit on his stool at the end of the
eighth round in June 2008. That fight
attracted 1.25 million buys. Top Rank chief Bob Arum earlier
predicted that the cross-promotions
by the US network CBS of the fight,
which was telecast by “Showtime,” would help boost PPV buys. Gate receipts at the MGM Grand Garden
Arena amounted to over $8.8 million
with a substantial percentage going to
the WBO welterweight champion. /
INQUIRER
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