By Eric Thomas: In a poll at the Los Angeles Times, Floyd Mayweather Jr. takes a huge amount of the blame for negotiations stalemate with Manny Pacquiao with the boxing fans that have taken part in the poll.
Of the 12, 819 votes that have been submitted in the poll, 9,615, roughly 75% of the voters, think that Mayweather is to blame for the impasse. Whereas with Pacquiao, only 794 (6%) of the voters think he’s the reason for the negotiation troubles.
What’s unknown is where the voters come from. It could be that a link to the article was posted on a popular boxing site frequented by fans of one of the fighters, and this could be a factor for why the results seem so lopsided.
Two fighters are their management teams are currently trying to work out a solution to the stalemate involving random blood testing with mediator Daniel Weintein. Yesterday, they met with Weinstein for nine hours, but there was no word as to whether there was any progress or not in the negotiations.
Pacquiao is open to limited blood testing on three separate occasions, two of which would occur leading up to the fight. However, Mayweather wants the blood testing to be random and continuous all the way up to the March 13th bout.
Both fighters will look to take alternative bouts if the mediator fails to come up with a solution to their problems. Pacquiao may be fighting World Boxing Association light middleweight champion Yuri Foreman, while Mayweather could be fighting Matthew Hatton or some other still to be determined opponent.
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