By Chris Williams: Although Manny Pacquiao is reportedly open to Olympic style random blood tests to check for performance enhancing drugs it doesn’t mean that the testing will be the full random testing that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been asking for before he’ll agree to fight Pacquiao.
In an interview at fighthype.com, Pacquiao’s advisor Michael Koncz pointed out that there will still be a cut off for the testing, although he doesn’t say precisely when the cutoff time would be before the fight date. Koncz did mention a week before the fight, but he says he needs to talk to Pacquiao about it.
The big question will be whether Mayweather is okay with fighting Pacquiao if the testing isn’t going to be random all the way up to the fight. That would take trust on Mayweather’s part to agree to that.
Koncz points out that Pacquiao feels that having blood taken from body may cause him to beat weak if it comes close to the fight, and he wants to avoid that for an important fight like Mayweather. However, it’s asking a lot of Mayweather, who is badly afraid of facing someone that isn’t be fully tested randomly, to allow Pacquiao to have a cutoff date for the blood tests.
If I’m Mayweather I’m not fighting Pacquiao unless he agrees to the full random blood testing to the very day of the fight without any cut offs. If there’s going to be a cut off date then what’s the point in having blood testing for PEDs in the first place? Might as well forget the whole thing as far as I’m concerned. I can’t see Mayweather going along with this.
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