Floyd is worried about getting a fair fight? Please…Lose the hypocrisy
By Andy Keen
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With all of the talk going on, it is easy to lose a rational perspective on the potential March 13 super fight because of all the bickering about the pre-fight testing for the Mayweather – Pacquiao showdown. Let’s take a minute to look at some of the facts as they were seen in the very recent past.
1) For both the Miguel Cotto and Ricky Hatton fights, an argument against a probable Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao victory was that he was a “pumped-up little man” who had finally reached a weight too heavy for him to be a legitimate competitor.
Clearly, the fact that he began his career as a smaller/lighter boxer was seen as a MAJOR disadvantage for him against
those naturally heavier opponents. Suddenly, Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (the bigger, heavier fighter who is fighting at his natural weight) is expressing concern that the smaller, lighter Pacquiao (who has to eat 7,000 calories a day to maintain the weight) might have an advantage over him, and that he is afraid that he will not be able to have a fair fight against the “little man”.
Where are all of the voices now that only recently were so eloquently expounding on the DISADVANTAGE that Pacquiao had in moving up the weight classes to fight men at their heavier natural weights? If Pacquiao was bigger than Mayweather, it might be a little easier to listen to “Money” suddenly sounding so pious about the pure principles of fair competition without feeling a sudden urge to vomit.
2) It seems to be a known fact that Pacquiao doesn’t like losing blood before a fight. I see patients nearly every day who have fears (sometimes very irrational ones ) about something that can cause them to manifest extremely dysfunctional behaviors. Healthy people sometimes are reduced to an incoherent sobbing mass of humanity because of the fear of some particular situation or circumstance.
In such cases, it is generally not possible to convince said person that there isn’t anything to worry about. For them, the reality seems very different than it does to you, the practitioner. Go ahead, call Pacquiao paranoid, or irrational to refuse the blood testing immediately before the fight. But, to insist on the change in the rules for this fight as opposed to using the rules in force for the Mayweather-Marquez fight, for instance, appears to be nothing more than an attempt by the Mayweather camp to get inside Pacquiao’s head and mess with it.
Forgive me if I sound excessively cynical, but hearing the bigger Mayweather complaining that he couldn’t get a fair fight from the smaller Pacquiao brings with it the stench of hypocrisy. I noticed that Mayweather gave himself quite a big advantage over Marquez by coming in over the weight limit, and thereby quite profoundly altering the dynamics of that fight. If you want to talk about fairness in competition versus giving yourself an unfair advantage, why don’t we start with Mayweather’s actions for the Marquez fight?
3) For most of us fans of boxing, the real issue in the Mayweather – Pacquiao fight quite simply comes down to this: Which boxer is better on a pound for pound basis, period. I personally do not believe that Pacquiao is using banned substances, but I must say that if he did, it wouldn’t bother me much. Boxing is an art, and no supplements or steroids can give a boxer the sense of timing, or the ability to bring punches from all angles in swift combination’s that both of these boxers posses.
Steroids will not increase the amount of the fast-twitch muscle fibers that allows for the blistering hand speed that both of these boxers exhibit. How about let’s cut some of the BS, follow the same rules that governed the Mayweather – Marquez fight, and see who the better man is inside the ring on March 13, 2010?
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im neutral here .. but you don’t have to be genius enogh who say’s the more logical and valid reason. mayweather is scared shit of the pacman!
Who is Mayweather to demand anything other than what the WBO or Nevada Boxing Commission requires? He is not the champion. He is not the pound for pound king. And he is not the the boxing commissioner.
This idiot must be high on drugs.
Why do Mayweathers suddenly wants the rule changed? Why did’nt they ask changes before Floyd fights Marquez who was recycling steroids drinking his pee? Common man, not all people think stupid as these felons.
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Indeed, Mayweather is scared with Pacquiao and that’s the reason why he is looking for ways to back out…
It is just a waste of time listening to Mayweathers because they are pure and 100% morons. Its better to watch cartoons than see their ugly faces on tv.
What is the big deal in Pacquiao’s refusal to a USDA blood testing? Well, it’s only because USDA is rumored to have ties with the GBP and De la Hoya. Pacquiao’s camp compromised to a random blood testing as long as it is performed by a third, unbias, and objective agency (NFL, NBA, MLB) but GBP and Mayweather refused to budge. Pacquiao’s the #1 p4p now and he should be the one dictating the terms and not PBF!
Jason,
PBF will never fight Mosley or Cotto, and that is a fact. In case you forgot, PBF retired just to avoid the strong fighters of his division…Mosley, Margarito, Cotto, Clottey and others did a round robin to fight each other to prove the best welterweight while Floyd on the other hand hid in retirement. If Floyd truly believes that he’s a great boxer and not a coward, then he needs to beat at least two of the aforementioned boxers. But my guess is that it will never happen because Floyd will retire again and say, “they’re not PPV fighters”, “i’ve got nothing to prove”, “i’ve lost love in boxing”. Watch how Mosley called out PBF after the Marquez fight, did he stutter or not?
Pacman made a wrong move, He should dare the elder Mayweather to shove a truckload of steroids to his son’s throat, and fights him and probe it if it will makes him stronger. But knowing Pacman’s rhetoric disability, when even if he talks in his native language whould make you laugh. This is a no contest.
pretty girl gaywether is no much for pacman. he knows he will only be humiliated by pacman. he can feel it.
golden girl dela hoya & pretty girl are 6 div title holders but their achivements were not questioned because they are americans!
now pacman a 7 div title & his achievements were questionable? why? because he is an asian?
no matter what you do there’s no stopping pacman becoming the greatest boxer of all time.
he is destined to be the greatest.
pretty girl floyd will just be another victim to pacman. he will lose devastatingly. he has all the reasons to be scared! he will feel the wrath of pacman once he step up with him in the ring.
you are going down pretty girl. you are nothing to pacman. your only advantage is your big mouth!
mark my word. you will lose in a devastatingly matter & you will retire permanently in boxing.
steroids doesnt make ur skill improve..
it doesnt make ur chin stronger and punch very fast…
steroids only make your body strong….
remember all the opponent of pacquiao…
david diaz once said “its not about the power, its about the speed…”
oscar de la hoya “his the fastest puncher that i ever fought…”
miguel cotto “he hit in different angles and i cant see where its coming..”
its all about the speed!
steroids doesnt make the fighter hit fast..
common sense!
there accusation got no basis either…
floyd is such a coward!
I am definitely believe that big undefeated pbf is pretty nervous to fight little pacman if I were pbf I would feel the same way either. After I witnessed how pacman annihilated three big guys like Gayla Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto I will do every thing to make excuses not to fight the little ninja and remain his cheap legacy intact. pbf is terrified about that he won’t see a million dollar cash anymore after the fight.
Floyd Jr… just sign the contract and fight, you claimed that you’re the best fighter; then Face the the number one fighter in the planet.
If I am a journalist, I must have written the same article. I agree to this 101%.
PBF camps’ accusations came out of nowhere. If Pac was tested positive before, they can beg for thet blood testing.
Pac is already on his last years of boxing and has NEVER been tested positive ever since.
Mayweathers, all you have is 100% envy of Pacquiao. Remember how you avoided Cotto, and how Pac whipped Cotto? Shame on your undefeated but meaningless record.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR is a COWARD
hey jason… i think youre a moron, gorilla too, you didnt know what you are talking about…
perhaps youre a gay too.. shame on you.. coward… hehheh
To: Slick Rick
If you think Pacquiao is guy who only thinks about money like Floyd then you are wrong! Pacman’s action simply implies that he is not just a man of money but also a man of principle. People who doesn’t give a shit about principle will never understand this specially if money is the only controlling factor in their life…
IF MANNY PACQUIAO IS USING SOME KIND OF ILLEGAL DRUGS, DON’T YOU THINK HE OR HIS TEAM WOULD HAVE ALREADY SHARED THAT TRICK WITH THE REST OF THE PHILIPPINES BOXING TEAM????!!! SO, WE CAN FINALLY WIN AN OLYMPIC GOLD! WE CAN’T EVEN WIN IN THE ASIAN GAMES FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!
FOR THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW, THE PHILIPPINES HAVE HAD ONLY 2 MEDALS IN THE HISTORY OF THE OLYMPICS….1 BRONZE AND 1 SILVER. THAT’S IT!!!
Mayweather’s accusation is not only insulting Manny Pacquiao alone, but also the Nevada Athletics Commission, Pac’s trainers Roach, Buboy, and Alex Ariza…and the whole team pacquiao – who all made Pacquiao a supreme fighter.
Mayweather already had so many fights. he’s unbeaten. he says he’s the best. why does he wanna change the rules now? why now? why on pacman? the answer: FEAR. he is too afraid of Manny. Did Cotto make a lot of excuses or require such testings? did delahoya asked for it? did hatton? NO. because they are MEN enough to fight. Gayweather is…yes gay. If youre a man, if you say your the best boxer, you fight. you use your 2 fists, not your mouth. tsk tsk…too afraid. coward.
All those people who said that Manny is afraid of needles are morons, Please show any proof that Manny says that word. He is willing to subject to any random blood test as long as it doesnt disrupt his training and He will not be bothered during sleep and must be under NSAC rules. Random blood extraction by USADA will be done while he is on training, sleeping. Thats absurd.
As I was reading this…please read..
If Cheaterweather suspecting Pacman using steroid and become stronger and powerful, then he should take it too and drop the blood test demand so that he will not get caught.
Now the next line is from me…
I think that is what he (Floyd) should do and stop crying. That will give him advantage and that is he wants right?
oh c’mpn guys! when did the NSAC used blood samples in boxing? never! did mosley had a blood sample when he is caught cheating? give me a break man! whose cheating who again? now when the lawsuit continues its to the gayweathers and golden eggs clan to submit all evidence they have or else, manny will be rich again without fighting! hahaha! a TKO in the court! the liars tasted theyre own medicene! hahahaha!
If PACMAN-floyd bout not work out how about PACMAN-Valero fight. What do you think guys?
Many Pacquiao is the man with Faith,Love and Determination. If you have faith! no matter what kind of tricks the foe will do to distract your concentration you will win. The mental games that they promote, it doesn’t work for someone who believe in faith. Evil thinking is powerful for those who are fool but it doesn’t work to a true believer. I love Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather as a fighter. They are both smart in their own way of fighting. I like Manny because he loves everyone rich or poor and not concieted like Floyd Mayweather. Floyd money Mayweather is the lost son of the creator, who like to decieve his opponent by his sweet and rude words. He likes to make his opponent hate him of what he said so he can set his move for victory. However, Manny is a very humble person and he has faith so it’s hard to break his belief for fighting. So floyd fight and be a man. When you loss accept it then you will become a better man. Fight for a reason is better for fighting for money. so find your reason then you will become a strong believer like many HE!HE!HE!. He helps people who needs his hands, I hope you don’t just fight for your bling!Bling! because you will never be a better person and you will never be a true champion Peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mike
Boxing testing for performance enhancing drugs is ridiculously easy to beat (e.g., Mosley always tested negative, though it was later discovered he was using “the clear” for an extended period of time). I am all for random blood tests in our sport – boxing needs to get cleaned up. We are talking about a life and death sport, and a fight worth many millions of dollars – Pacquiao having some fear of blood drawn is an absolutely ridiculous excuse for not agreeing to random testing. Mayweather is arrogant and annoying, but I have to side with him on this one.
well written mr writer. i agree with you 100%. who are these mayweather ball suckers?? what make them expert on steroids? these stupid dorks are just jealous of pacman’s success. it’s so funny some of them defend on behalf of that yellow coward mayweather. floyd will never face manny because he will lose that perfect zero. hey floyd fans get a life! you bunch of morons.
Great article! Mayweather is truely a hypocrite and an idiot. LOL…
hahaha,gaywhether talking of a fair fight lolz. he comes overweight on the marquez fight duh?!?! because in his head he wants to take every advantage he can get…. and thats him…. forget floyd…. get yuri for the 8th title
I think the problem regarding the USADA is that GBP can tell them to get blood from Pacquiao on the day of the fight while getting Mayweather’s blood 48 hrs before the fight since they will say it’s random. The can even extract blood from Pacquiao more that the usual amount and say that it is what is needed!
I donated blood before and to tell you frankly it will make you light headed for a couple of minutes.
I don´t know what Mayweather is worrying about? He said constantly that this is “an easy fight” for him. He can beat definitely Pacquiao! So what´s the problem? He had been in 40 fights before without demanding any additional intensive drug test. And I will guess that in that 40 fighters he already met, someone was probably on drugs when they fought. But that never bothers him at all! Why change of heart suddenly with Pacquiao who never been tested positive before? That false accusation about drugs against Pacquiao made by his own father Mayweather Sr just after Hatton lost to Pacquiao and the rumour circulating a possible fight against Floyd jr. in 2010. I guess that´s a father protecting his son, an attempt gestures of the father to regain affection from his long lost son!
To all floyd no balls fan! Its very clear pacquiao is not afraid on needles,he said 5 minutes after the fight,they can take the blood,whats the difference on taking him before and after the fight?yer all stu@#$d idi@#$t!!!
MGA PUTANG INA NINYONG LAHAT! NAG UMPISA NA NAMAN KAYO NG MGA KAGAGUHAN SA BOKSING!!LETSE!!
Well said writer, it is very obvuios that mongofloyd gayweather jr. is scared to fight PAQUIAO, it also useless that even PACMAN agreed for that demand of gayweather for that kind of drugtesting, they will cenrtainly find another reason or demand again to avoid fight the PACMAN.
Poor mongfloyd gayweather jr. & sr. your both coward…
The Pacman doesn’t need us to make excuses for hgim because he has not done anything wrong and has proven time and again that he not done anything wrong and in fact has already agreed to be tested like no other athlete in the world has ever been tested before and more than what the sport asks for but that is still not enough, any fighter who agrees to 3 blood test including one immediately after the fight and numerous random urine test, plus the reqular NSAC test that all boxers have to go through has nothing to hide and to insists on additional tests is just a cowards way out of a fight and people who believe that the Pacman has been using steroids are just plain stupid listening to a person who is no better than the neighborhood crackhead. Steroids would not help a fighter become faster, better or have a better chin in fact it does make you stronger but not faster, just ask vargas who tested positive for steroids after the delahoya fight, a fight in which he tested positive for steroids but got beat up and knocked out.
floyd needs new advisors and need to step up…the great boxer who never reached his potential
http://www.sportzhypeboxing.com/2009/12/manny-pacquiao-truth-about-steroids.html
all they have said have backfired on them..the mayweathers
http://www.sportzhypeboxing.com/2009/12/manny-pacquiao-truth-about-steroids.html
Mayweather does not really want this fight because:
1. if he losses, it will be his biggest embarrassment;
2. he does not want to break his “no losses” record;
3. he is a coward.
GBP does not want the fight because
1. they don’t want to lose their cash cow mayweather if he losses;
2. they are idiots and this drug testing thing is a revenge to pac for not having them as his promoter.
FIRE SCHAEFER!!!
To all of you dickheads who think its just fair for both fighters to undergo blood test : GO TO HELL !! there are a lot of great fights in the past that went underway without those shit.These allegations just came from a bum who never even finished highschool nor has a good positive community standing. And to entertain these bullshit makes you even worse than this bum. Let me give you a fair bottom line on this ( Coz I’m sick and tired of this rumblings ), mayweather is not a coward, he is not afraid of PAc, but he knows he aint ready yet to fight him but is too fucking proud to admit it. needs just one more tune up fight,but doing so would make fans criticize him. So he made an effort to catch the PAC off balance by offering him a fight schedule too early to be reasonable on PAC’s part( since he just recently been in a tough fight agaist cotto.) But to his surprise the stubborn PAC agreed which is not expected on the Mayweather camp. Confused and surprised, these mayweather bums tried to demand everything to hinder the fight because it was really not their original plan. These blood testing shit is just a product of MAyweather’s actions of getting out of the fight since he aint ready yet. That’s all there you suckers.
WHAT!!!, “FLOYD WORRIED ABOUT GETTING A FAIR FIGHT???”…My answer is a tiny no and a BIG YES. No because of the fact that Floyd once fought a giant MMA/UFC warrior where he portrayed himself as a victorious dwarf. Well, in that scenario the giant could have easily killed dwarf Floyd, but the script did not say so. With so much bravado, up to this day Floyd thought he fooled the paying public. Big YES because for the first time Floyd will be facing a real threat in his life the PACMAN.
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