Is it really Mayweather’s fault that the Pacquiao fight fell through?
By Chris Williams: I don’t think its Floyd Mayweather’s fault one bit that his mega fight with WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao fell apart during mediation yesterday. From what I’m hearing, all Pacquiao was willing to do was chop six days off the 30 window for blood testing, dropping it to 24 days instead of 30. I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t seem to make all that much of a difference. I can understand Mayweather’s reluctance.
I would have liked to have seen Pacquiao drop down to 15 days instead showing that he would meet Mayweather halfway on this. That seems fair to me, not 24 days. Also, Mayweather would still have had to make a public apology for the PED allegations. That, I think, he would never do in a million years, and I’m frankly surprised they were trying to get him to do. That’s like shaming him. Does anyone honestly think for a second that Mayweather would ever apologize in public for the allegations? I think by asking him to do that, it was the equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot.
Mayweather is too proud to be forced into making an apology like that. That part should have been excluded if they really wanted to make the fight happen.
I don’t see what the big deal with the random blood testing. It doesn’t take a lot of blood, and Mayweather was going to have the blood taken from him as well, so why not agree to the blood testing and let’s have the fight take place. I can understand Pacquiao being afraid of having his blood taken, but for that kind of money, one has to face our fears.
Nothing is easy. If it was, everyone would be a millionaire. You have to experience a certain amount of pain to make big bucks, and I think the blood testing was one a sacrifice that should have been made.
At the worse, I don’t see why the blood tests couldn’t stop 2 weeks before the fight. That sounds like a reasonable thing to do. But the part about the apology, that would be killer for the fight in my view, if Pacquiao and his management team were insisting on it. I think a lot of fighters would have problems with that. Who wants to be shamed in that manner? Mayweather isn’t the type to give in to that kind of thing, so it probably shouldn’t have even been considered in the first place if they wanted to make it easier to put the fight together.
By Chris Williams: I don’t think its Floyd Mayweather’s fault one bit that his mega fight with WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao fell apart during mediation yesterday. From what I’m hearing, all Pacquiao was willing to do was chop six days off the 30 window for blood testing, dropping it to 24 days instead of 30. I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t seem to make all that much of a difference. I can understand Mayweather’s reluctance.
I would have liked to have seen Pacquiao drop down to 15 days instead showing that he would meet Mayweather halfway on this. That seems fair to me, not 24 days. Also, Mayweather would still have had to make a public apology for the PED allegations. That, I think, he would never do in a million years, and I’m frankly surprised they were trying to get him to do. That’s like shaming him. Does anyone honestly think for a second that Mayweather would ever apologize in public for the allegations? I think by asking him to do that, it was the equivalent of shooting oneself in the foot.
Mayweather is too proud to be forced into making an apology like that. That part should have been excluded if they really wanted to make the fight happen.
I don’t see what the big deal with the random blood testing. It doesn’t take a lot of blood, and Mayweather was going to have the blood taken from him as well, so why not agree to the blood testing and let’s have the fight take place. I can understand Pacquiao being afraid of having his blood taken, but for that kind of money, one has to face our fears.
Nothing is easy. If it was, everyone would be a millionaire. You have to experience a certain amount of pain to make big bucks, and I think the blood testing was one a sacrifice that should have been made.
At the worse, I don’t see why the blood tests couldn’t stop 2 weeks before the fight. That sounds like a reasonable thing to do. But the part about the apology, that would be killer for the fight in my view, if Pacquiao and his management team were insisting on it. I think a lot of fighters would have problems with that. Who wants to be shamed in that manner? Mayweather isn’t the type to give in to that kind of thing, so it probably shouldn’t have even been considered in the first place if they wanted to make it easier to put the fight together.
