By Caesar Almase: I read the comments to my earlier article, The Catlike Floyd “Meow” Mayweather, and am compelled to make a couple of statements.

First, re the email asking about the consequences if Pacquiao tests dirty, sent by a “reliable anonymous source” out of the Pacquiao camp, I, like many boxing writers and bloggers strenuously call BS. Where is this phantom email? If it exists, why not publish it? Why protect the identity of someone in the enemy camp? Is it because Mayweather and his posse are above besmirching someone’s name, or is it because the email DOES NOT EXIST? Only the very gullible would eat that cat poop. Like their allegation that Pacquiao is a cheater, Mayweather and his crew have absolutely no proof to back up the email story.
Second, assuming he actually believes Pacquiao is a dirty fighter, the question remains, would Mayweather be so insistent on drug testing if he thought, without a doubt, he could beat Pacquiao? I’m sure he won’t ask Matthew Hatton or Paulie Malignaggi to drug test, just as he never insisted that any of his past opponents be tested. Drug testing is only an issue because Mayweather made it one, and he only made it an issue because he is a big gaping cat.

Third, the argument that Mayweather only makes fights that make the most money, isn’t worth its weight in kitty litter. Can anyone, except the most strident Mayweather fans, really believe that there is (was) more money to be made fighting Matthew Hatton than Paul Williams? Carlos Baldomir than Miguel Cotto? Anyone other than Shane Mosley (either at present or at any time in the past)? He has been good enough to have fought with distinction against all of his opposition but we don’t know the measure of his greatness, the money earned notwithstanding. In my opinion, the first Castillo fight, which was more about answering a challenge and less about making money, was as close to a life and death battle that Mayweather has ever come. And since that earlier period when he was still making his ascent to the top and seeking challenges, Mayweather hasn’t tested his whiskers against anyone who posed a credible challenge.

One last thought regarding legacy (of which Mayweather has said is unimportant but then at turns claims himself The GOAT), consider if he had fought during the late 70’s and 80’s and the time of Duran, Chavez, Pryor, Arguello, Hearns, and Leonard. . . would he be similarly undefeated? I think so. . . but only because he would’ve pulled a pussycat move then, as now. But maybe, if Pretty Kitty was (is) sufficiently pressured by the public, and put in a financial straitjacket, then he’d be forced to prove his greatness, instead of talking about it.