Pacquiao won't entertain more demands from Floyd
MANILA, Philippines - Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao said Saturday that the super fight between him and Floyd Mayweather Jr. now depends on the American boxer after he has agreed to undergo a blood test 14 days before their faceoff.
"Talagang hindi siya lalaban kung mangatwiran ulit siya," Pacquiao told radio dzMM when asked what he would do if Mayweather comes up with a new demand.
He said that if ever the superfight fails to push through, he may still fight another boxer or just retire and focus on his newfound career in politics.
Pacquiao has been proclaimed as winner in Sarangani Province's congressional race. He toppled a member of a powerful political clan in the province.
The Filipino boxer said he will take a 1-week crash course on public administration and governance at the University of the Philippines.
He said he is also determined to finish his business management course at the Notre Dame University in 2 years and then take up law.
Pacquiao clarified Friday that the blood that would extracted from him should only be minimal for the drug test.
“Pumayag naman ako pero hindi yung talagang maraming dugo na kukunin. Kung anong dugo ang kelangan sa drug test, ganoon lang karami. Fourteen days [before the fight],” Pacquiao told ABS-CBN News' Dyan Castillejo.
Pacquiao said during the radio interview that he has yet to receive a feedback from the camp of Mayweather.
The reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion said he softened his stand after listening to boxing fans’ clamor for a mega fight between him and Mayweather.
“Everywhere I go… gusto talaga nila ng Mayweather fight. [They ask me] over and over,” said Pacquiao.
Pacquiao made the decision to fight the former pound-for-pound king weeks after he received permission from his mother, Dionisia Pacquiao, for one last bout.
The blood test controversy was the reason the negotiations between the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps collapsed early this year.
The two would have fought last March 13, but Mayweather ended up fighting Shane Mosley and Pacquiao battling Ghana's Joshua Clottey.
Pacquiao’s camp earlier agreed to undergo tests 24 days before the fight, but Mayweather’s group insisted that blood should be taken 14 days prior to the fight.
Blood test as the drug protocol is the personal requirement for Mayweather. Athletic commissions require urine tests on boxers as the form of drug testing, and Pacquiao has never had a problem.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said he learned the last day for blood testing used by Mayweather and "Sugar" Shane Mosley in their recent fight was 18 days prior to the fight.
"The USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) stopped the blood test... they took 5 or 6 tests but the last one was 18 days for Mosley and 19 days for Mayweather," he told ABS-CBN News' Dyan Castillejo in a phone interview.
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Statement from USADA CEO Travis Tygart.
"He,said that athletes tested within a 14-day window prior to a big match or a tournament can still cheat and get away if they are into performance enhancing drugs."
"If you know you aren’t going to be tested within the last 14 days, you can cheat and get away with it," Tygart said in an interview by award-winning veteran sportswriter Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports.
"If you block out a period of time and say we can’t test during that period, then an athlete could cheat and get away with it."
The USADA official’s statement came two days after Manny Pacquiao, the current top pound-for-pound fighter in the world, suggested that he’s willing to take a drug test as close as to two weeks before a fight.
Incidentally, USADA did its final blood testing during the Mayweather-Sugar Shane Mosley slugfest at least 18 days before the two squared off in the ring on May 2.
“It is our right to test at any time, 30 days before the fight, 20 days before, the week of, the morning of – that provides the deterrent," he said.
Mayweather definitely agrees with it, pointing out that he demands blood testing all the way up to fight day.
Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions made it clear where the camp stands right now.
“Random is random," Ellerbe said. “It could be at any time. That’s what random means. I will say this: If and when Floyd Mayweather decides to fight again, random blood and urine testing will be part of it. Period."
Nakuh dong Manny dati nung di ka pumayag sa demand ng Gayweather camp di man lang nagbitaw ng statement ang USADA commission na yan tahimik lang sila dahil ayaw mo ei... ingat dong Manny mukhang me MAFIA na naman ngayun na pumayag ka na sa 14 days drug testing... hehehehe.
Kung ako DONG MANNY wag na, magpakasarap ka nalang sa buhay mo dyan sa Kongreso baka matalo ka pa... wag mo na sila pansinin basta gampanan mo trabaho mo at tumulong ka nalang sa mga kababayan mo.
pumayag ka na ng random blood test
pumayag ka na sa random, basta 1. sabay kayo sa random test in front of media...Live ito ha. 2. same blood volume kukunin say 5cc sayo 5cc rin kay duwag. kasi kapag hindi ganito baka minu minuto ay kunan ka ng blood sample, baka kalansay(skeleton) ka na on the day of the fight. 3.Optional ,..make him as the boxing commissioner since he knows better than the authorities. 4. Knock him off !
PAKYAW, RETIRE NA LANG!!
YOU BETTER RETIRE OR YOU GONNA LOSE. MAYWEATHER WILL BE TOO HAPPY TO KNOCK DOWN A CONGRESSMAN IN HIS LIFE TIME. LOL.
AND YOU WILL BE SITTING IN CONGRESS IN SHAME, LOOKING AT THE CEILING FOR LIZARD OR DOZING IN THE SESSION LIKE A SHIT. LOL
pakyaw, bantay dong!
Mayweather will be too happy to knock down a congressman.
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