Mayweather-Pacquiao: No point in calling it off

By Boxing News - 12/23/2009 - Comments

Image: Mayweather-Pacquiao: No point in calling it offBy Peter Wells: Honestly I don’t know why this fight shouldn’t go ahead, and I am pointing this at both promoters and fighters. Firstly Pacquiao will take a blood test, next January, and will also take one after the fight. So if World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is clean in January people will say, he’s gonna take the drugs before the fight. Then that is why he is taking a test after the fight, which means if he was on performance enhancing drugs then they would show up on the test after the fight. Obviously if he has been taking these drugs before and this time there is a sudden decrease in his performance then it will bring up suspicions but nothing they can do without proof.

Well Mayweather wants Pacquiao to take the tests 30 days before the fight, which is fair but if he takes the test after the fight and it shows he has been taking them, he will be punished and obviously if Manny wins will be changed to a No-Contest. I hope Pacquiao hasn’t been on drugs as it would be one of the worst things to happen in boxing, and all the hype for Pacquiao will die down.

I couldn’t see Pacquiao as much of a cheater, no matter who brilliant he is in training and the ring, but he just doesn’t look the type of guy to take drugs. But as people say, looks can be deceiving, and there is a possibility that we could have been fooled all these years.

Well if the fight is called off then Timothy Bradley’s promoter Gary Shaw has told Boxingscene.com that he would be willing to come up in weight and fight Pacquiao and Mayweather, while Freddie Roach would be interested in fighting at 154lbs against Yuri Foreman. And Shane Mosley would also be out there for either fighter if he beats Andre Berto.



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