Mayweather: I’ll fight Pacquiao if he takes the test

By Boxing News - 10/03/2011 - Comments

Image: Mayweather: I'll fight Pacquiao if he takes the testBy Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. says he’ll fight WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao if he simply will agree to take the tests for performance enhancing drugs. Mayweather says he doesn’t understand why Pacquiao doesn’t want to take the tests so that they can finally mix it up in the ring.

Speaking with radioplanet.tv, Mayweather said “I am really not concerned with him [Pacquiao]. I do what I do; he does what he do. I beat fighters when they’re undefeated, when they’re at the top and he beats my leftovers. If you’re the best than take the test. I don’t know who’s next. We only give people what they want to see.”

Mayweather isn’t too interested in facing former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz again, seeing it as not really worth his time anymore. Mayweather said “This dude [Ortiz] is no longer relevant. He was happy I gave him an opportunity to make a couple of million. I got him on 24/7, and it’s like this, he keeps nagging and nagging [about a rematch]. I’m like you dude fall back. You go look back at the fight, the ref said time in. That means it’s time to fight. All the kissing and hugging. We’re trying to fight and give people something they want to see.”

That doesn’t sound like Mayweather is interested in facing Ortiz again. He understands that boxing fans don’t want to see Ortiz back in their with Mayweather because of how he stunk out the joint in that fight.

Mayweather said this about Pacquiao: “Whether he wins or loses [against Juan Manuel Marquez], if he wants the fight we can fight. I’m trying to figure out why he doesn’t want to take the tests. We shouldn’t even be talking about him right now. We’re blowing him up. A fighters who doesn’t need to be blown up. If he really wanted to fight, it would have been happened.”

I agree with Mayweather. I don’t think Pacquiao wants any part of Mayweather because of how talented he is.

“Pacquiao knocked Marquez down a few times, but when it’s all said and done, Marquez won the most rounds. I took 2 years off and fought Mayweather and it was easy work. They say I was too big for Marquez, but I’m not too big for Pacquiao.”



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