By Adam Laiolo: Before i start, I love both fighters for their own individual reasons. I love Manny Pacquiao’s explosiveness and Floyd Mayweather’s defensive genius and I believe both their records are among the best in the sport. But after negotiations begun, it was clear that things were going far too smoothly. The date, the purse, the venue even the gloves was easily sorted out. Mayweather then released what he thought was an ace up his sleeve in the drug tests, which has since turned out to be one of the worst decisions he has made.

I do believe Mayweather would fight Pacquiao and vice versa no problem, but Floyd is either trying mind games or a bluff and neither do the sport any good. The fact that the greatest fight in current boxing cannot be made, or possibly will not be made, is an absolute disgrace. In any other sport in Europe or the U.S., would this stuff happen? Of course not, but in boxing we have self serving promoters and fighters who can manipulate situations and us the public with ease.

The UFC must be laughing their backsides off at the state of affairs boxing is in when we cant even get our two best fighters to share a ring. It was all too good to be true, i still hope the fight happens, whether your a pacman fan or a pretty boy Mayweather fan, this fight has to be made. Everything from 135 to 147 points to a pound for pound showdown between these two, and the blame isn’t solely on one side. Whilst Floyd is being slightly sly asking for Olympic drug tests, Pacman is doing himself no favours by refusing.

I don’t doubt for a second Pacquiao is clean, but to refuse the tests can put even the whitest white in grey. We know Manny has his thing about blood taking, but surely there’s a way around it? I don’t believe for a second that there is no way blood tests, quantities and dates cannot, be arranged to suit both fighters. It seems to me, promoter Bob Arum and Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer are the two main culprits for the lack of progress. Arum is a very successful yet stubborn and one eyed man, Schaefer is exactly the same.

To not resolve this crisis and save the biggest and best fight is boxing would be a travesty and whilst I wouldn’t recommend boycotting pay-per-views for either fighter, I would suggest taking a step back and looking at the way boxing is run on the whole. I am no promoter or expert, but i know that if the two best fighters in a sport cannot sit down and come to an agreement to fight for 30 million dollars plus each, then there is something very wrong with our sport. Self interest is one of the worst traits in boxing, why not just for once, think of us, the fans. We pay the money, we read the news, we support the fighters, we fill the forums and the arenas. For once, give US what we want