By Andy Hayward: Ever since the infamous Manny Pacquiao allegations made by the Mayweather camp there’s been constant speculation about whether he’s clean or not and I must say this wasn’t helped by team Pacquiao’s unwillingness to do completely RANDOM blood testing and also using excuses like Manny’s afraid of needles or having a teaspoon of blood taken from his body weakens him, anyway that’s their decision I’m just saying that it didn’t help to calm down the speculation if anything it sent it into overdrive.
After months of back and forth arguing the negotiations seemed to hit a brick wall, this result has left a bitter taste in the mouths of boxing fans, writers, experts and also the fellow fighters. Which leads me to the recent comments of Andre Berto on Twitter “ let me clear the air now!! Your right there is a reason why Ortiz had so much energy, a reason he could take my heavy shots and keep ticking”. His comments are referring to the decision loss he had against Victor Ortiz, a fight in which both scored heavy knockdowns but the way it looked to me was that Victor just wanted that tiny bit more on the night.
So I’m asking the question, is this what it’s boiled down to? Every time a fighter puts in a special performance or shows something a little extra are people just going to jump to the conclusion that they’re a cheat or they’ve taken something they’re not supposed to. Maybe the only to around this nonsense is to give Floyd what he wants and have fully random blood testing, especially in Championship fights, who knows?
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