Mayweather blames Pacquiao for fight's collapse
MANILA, Philippines – Undefeated fighter Floyd Mayweather, Jr. has found a new opponent in fellow American Shane Mosley, but he still has a mouthful to say about Manny Pacquiao, whom he was supposed to fight in March until negotiations crumbled.
“The question that people want to know is why didn’t Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather fight? It wasn’t my fault! I’m not duckin’ and dodgin’ nobody. 40 have came and 40 have came up short,” Mayweather said in a RadioPlanet.tv interview as quoted by Andre Zurbrug of FightHype.com.
Pacquiao and Mayweather were slated to fight on March 13 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Their blockbuster bout, however, did not push through as they disagreed on the drug testing procedure.
The Filipino boxing sensation will instead face Ghanaian Joshua Clottey on March 13 at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas while Mayweather will fight Mosley on May 1 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The Mayweather vs Mosley deal is reportedly final, as Mosley already signed the contract, according to ESPN.com. Mayweather’s signature was to come “in the next few days.”
It is uncertain if Mosley, the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight super champion, will defend his title.
Mosley was supposed to take on Haitian Andre Berto in January but Berto pulled out because some of his family members died in the devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake last January 12.
Drug testing issue
Mayweather and Mosley have reportedly agreed to undergo Olympic-style drug testing.
“Shane is fine with Olympic-style drug testing,” Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told Steve Carp of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “He welcomes more stringent testing. He has nothing to hide.”
The drug testing spelled the end of the Pacquiao vs Mayweather blockbuster bout.
“So all I was saying is I’m just trying to clean up sports period. I’m saying that he’s not the only one that has to take a random drug test, I do too. That’s the only thing I was saying. I never met nobody in sports history that didn’t want to take a 25 million dollar drug test,” continued Mayweather.
“The thing is, what people don’t know about the sport of boxing, in a fighter’s career, a fighter starts off good and he be good all the way to end of his career or a fighter starts off good and goes downhill towards the end of his career. A fighter doesn’t start off like Manny Pacquiao, just ordinary, and then once he gets over the age of 25, he becomes an extraordinary fighter.”
Pacquiao sued Mayweather and some of his team members for their allegations that he was taking performance-enhancing drugs.
10 years in the making
Both American boxers are said to be raring to get in the ring on May 1.
“It's a fight people have wanted to see for a long time, but never happened for whatever reasons,” Mosley’s lawyer Judd Burstein told the Los Angeles Times as quoted by ESPN.com.
“Now that it's going to happen, Shane is looking forward to doing what he and many of his fans have long thought he would do,” he added.
Mayweather’s adviser, Leonard Ellerbe, said that Floyd Jr. is excited. “He's waited 10 years for this opportunity to fight Mosley.” – With reports from ESPN.com, FightHype.com and Las Vegas Review-Journal
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LOL. Blame Pacquiao? For
LOL. Blame Pacquiao? For what? There should be a commission that states to have this crazy blood testing. But now, since Pacquiao already agreed, why did Floyd chickened out?
Blame
Floyd should be the one to be blamed that this megafight didn't happened.
pacquiao is the best
mayweather keeps talking that pacquiao is the reason why the fight was canceled but he is the one making excuses of the fight.. poor little mayweather.. everybody knows it.
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GAYWEATHER
hahaha, mayweather is a coward, he keeps talking nonsense.. I bet he will lose againt mosley..poor mayweather..
Chicken!
bok-bok-bok!
ang masakit lang na mangyari dito ay kung matalo si mayweather kay shane mosley.
Pumayag si Mosley sa demand
Pumayag si Mosley sa demand ni Floyd na ramdom testing, malamang si Pacquiao papayag na rin sa demand ni Floyd kapag nagkaroon uli ng negotiation sa laban nilang dalawa.
Move on Gayweather...
You're stupid Gayweather. PLAIN STUPID!!! MOVE ON BALUGA!!!
Takot!
In this situation si Manny ang takot...na kunan ng dugo. Tatakbo sa Congress tapos takot kunan ng dugo.Sus Maria!
Thirty-Six(36) Reasons Why Mayweather hates Pacquiao
Top Thirty-Six(36) Reasons Why Mayweather is jealous of Pacquiao.
(updated after Pacquiao won BWAA FIGHTER of the YEAR/DECADE)
1) WBC World Lightweight champion,
2) WBC World Super Featherweight champion,
3) IBF World Super Bantamweight champion,
4) WBC World Flyweight champion,
5) Ring Magazine Featherweight champion,
6) Ring Magazine Super Featherweight Champion,
7) Current WBO World Welterweight champion
8) Ring Magazine The Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year,
9) Ring Magazine's Fighter of the Decade Award,
10) 2006 and 2008 Boxing Writers Association Of America Fighter of the Year,
11) 2006 and 2008 SecondsOut.com Fighter of the Year,
12) 2008 and 2009 The Ring Magazine #1 Pound For Pound (year-end),
13) 5-Time PSA Sportsman of the Year,
14) 2008 and 2009 BoxingScene.com Fighter of the Year,
15) 2008 Sports Illustrated Boxer of the Year,
16) 2008 and 2009 TheSweetScience.com Boxer of the Year,
17) 2008 WBC Boxer of the Year,
18) 2008 Yahoo Sports Fighter of the Year,
19) 2008 ESPN Star's Champion of Champions,
20) 2009 ESPN Fighter of the Year,
21) 2009 ESPN Knockout of the Year,
22) 2009 ESPY Awards Best Fighter,
23) 2009 TIME 100 Most Influential People (Heroes & Icons Category),
24) 2009 TIME Magazine cover for November issue,
25) 2009 Forbes Magazine Celebrity 100 (ranked 57th),
26) 2009 HBO Fighter of the Decade,
27) 2009 The SweetScience.com Fighter of the Decade,
28) 2009 Sports Illustrated Fighter of the Year,
29) 2009 The Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year,
30) 2009 World's Greatest Ever Featherweight,
31) 2009 World's Greatest Ever (ranked 2nd),
32) 2009 Bloomberg 100 Most Powerful Athletes(ranked #72 against Floyd's #91),
33) 2009 WBC Fighter of the Year,
34) 2009 Top 20 Highest Paid Atheletes(ranked 6th together with Lebron James and Phil Mickelson)
35) 2000-09 Boxing Writers Association of America(BWAA) Fighter of the Year
36) 2000-09 Boxing Writers Association of America(BWAA) Fighter of the Decade
They're both to blame...
Please... Pareho silang dalawa ni Pacquiao at Mayweather ang dapat sisihin. Parehong nag pa pa Diva ang dalawa.
Pareho silang takot! Si Mayweather pwede mong sabihin na takot kay Pacquiao. Si Pacquiao naman takot kukunan isang tasa ng dugo (or ano pang taga bundok na superstitious beliefs - sa untak mo lang yan Manny, mag hire ka nga ng psychiatrist) or takot mahuli na nag PED. Paano kung(and I mean WHAT IF) magsisimula mag random blood testing ang mga state sports commissions sa Amerika? Ano nalang ang gagawin ni Pacquiao?