Rafael: “They [Mayweather-Pacquiao] should just flip a coin and stop holding the sports world hostage”

By Scott Gilfoid: ESPN sports writer Dan Rafael sounding more than a little fed up about the stalemate between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, said in his column at ESPN, “Enough with the drug testing nonsense. Mayweather shouldn’t be making accusations without a shred of proof, as he tries to discredit all of Pacquiao’s great accomplishments, nor should he try to circumvent the Nevada rules by asking for blood tests when the commission has never asked for them…They should flip a coin and stop holding the sports world hostage.” I totally agree with Rafael about them needing to get past all of this somehow.

Actually, it’s not a bad idea for them to flip a coin on this. It would be kind of like the sociopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in the movie No country for old men, in which Chigurh flips a coin to decide whether or not to kill some of his victims. In this case, Mayweather and Pacquiao can flip a coin and decide whether or not to have the random blood tests take place.

I think that’s about the fairest way to settle this mess, because I doubt that either Mayweather or Pacquiao or going to give in anytime soon so that boxing fans can have a fight. Currently, Todd duBoef from Top Rank and Bruce Binkow are working to try and get the fight done. However, it will still require for both Mayweather and Pacquiao to give a little and be willing to settle for not entirely getting their way.

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Former boxing great Barry McGuigan also thinks that both Mayweather and Pacquiao are partly to blame for their fight not moving forward, saying in an article at The Mirror, “Pacquiao is right to rail against the manipulation and interference of team Mayweather. What right have they [Mayweather and Golden Boy Promotions] to request a test schedule to be imposed on Pacquiao…On the other, it leaves a question dangling in the air. If Pacquiao has nothing fear, why not submit to the tests?”

McGuigan goes on to say that he thinks that Pacquiao’s success is completely due to his own natural ability, and thinks that people suspect him because of his huge success that he’s made in the past year in moving up in weight. However, McGuigan fails to identify which fighter should be the one to give in to make their fight happen. If McGuigan is like me, then I think Mayweather and Pacquiao need to compromise somehow and meet halfway. Either that, or like Rafael said, maybe they should just flip a coin to decide.