Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Pacquiao: UAE Group Releases More Details

[mrpizza-nd_beer]

Looking more like a misdirection attempt by Haymon group to increase Floyd's leverage in the current negotiations.

[Scipio2009]

So they sign the fight and for 6 months they can do their 'media circus' around the world.

It doesnt matter where they fight tbh.

Hardly anyone puts their money down for a PPV even a month prior to the actual event; some hardcore fans may decide early, but even the bulk of them don't make that final decision until the week of the fight.

The casual boxing fan will generally follow the hype, sort of, really start paying attention to the media attention the week of the fight, and make that final purchase decision, typically, within days of the fight.

[soul_survivor]

The only problem I see with this fight being non-Vegas (not even the whole US territory) is that Floyd will not be allowed to use xylocaine in numerous international territories.

[DeadLikeMe]

The only problem I see with this fight being non-Vegas (not even the whole US territory) is that Floyd will not be allowed to use xylocaine in numerous international territories.

1) Lidocaine isn’t a banned substance on the WADA or USDA lists and isn’t specifically banned by NSAC.
2) Despite that, NSAC do not allow its use on fight night or in the immediate buildup to a fight.
3) While Floyd and his camp have tacitly admitted to using Lidocaine, this has only been during the training for bouts rather than during for bouts themselves. This is in contrast to Honeyghan and Oscar who appeared to use it during the bouts themselves.
4) Lidocaine has been tested for in Nevada, at least after Mayweather/Hatton, and Mayweather came back clean.

Now the story that goes round the internet is that Mayweather is using this mysterious lidocaine substance and that Nevada has some special rules that allow him to do so while every other state doesn’t and views it as illegal. The simple issue here is that there’s no evidence of this (and the articles that say that are incredibly… and I suggest deliberately… vague about it). I can see no evidence that any… let alone a majority… of other states ban the use of Lidocaine in all circumstances and there’s remarkably little evidence that they even ban it in the week leading up to a bout like Nevada do; if anything, Nevada appears to be one of the harsher states when it comes to the regulation of lidocaine.

[soul_survivor]

NSAC does allow it's use, but you're right, not directly before the fight that still leaves plenty of time.