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I've personally had it with Floyd ... not only did he prove that he only fight smaller and old boxers when he came back from his retirement ... now he is considering to fight younger boxers ... but ... boxers who are not even at their peak. Amir is only 23 ... and has a thin resume compared to Pacquiao. The guy also has yet to fight in Welterweight and would probably end up as another boxer that Floyd is going to bloat of just to get another "W".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/artic...

Paul Williams, in his 11th year in the professional boxing ring, is widely acknowledged as the world's third best fighter, pound for pound.

He's 6-3, freakishly tall and he's fighting WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, also a power punching lefthander, in a Nov. 20 Atlantic City (HBO, not PPV) rematch simply because neither could persuade any other opponent to step up.

Their first fight was wild and wooly. Martinez got floored in the opening round and then the Argentinian decked the coltish PWill.

They traded hurt, they traded pain the rest of the way and, when it was over, Williams was tabbed the winner on two cards (119-110 and 115-113) while the third judge saw it a 114-114 draw.

This natural rematch comes a week after the Antonio Margarito-Manny Pacquiao HBO PPV bout and it figures to be equally engaging.

But, aside from Martinez, foes steer clear of Williams.

"They call him the 'Punisher' but Paul is the one who gets punished because these other guys won't fight him," manager-trainer George Peterson said at a New York press conference Thursday.

At age 29, with 40 pro bouts behind him, Williams' patience is growing thin.

"I don't think Floyd Mayweather will fight me anytime," Williams said. "Manny Pacquiao, he might do it, he might step up but not Floyd.

"I guess Floyd won't fight me because I don't have a vagina."

That X-rated shot, obviously, is a reference to the Baby Mama drama which briefly sent Mayweather to jail and led to domestic battery charges in Las Vegas.

Williams and Peterson don't think that Al Haymon's status as adviser to them and to Mayweather is what keeps the fighters apart.

"I was in the barbershop in (Washington) D.C., the other day and the guys were talking about it. They respect Floyd's skills like I do but they were saying they know he won't ever fight me," Williams said.

"If Floyd went to Al and said, "Hey, I want to fight Paul Williams, what can Al do? But Floyd is not going to ever say that. Pacquiao, he fights bigger guys, he's different than Mayweather so maybe I will get to fight him."

Like many others, Williams thinks Mayweather's obsession is being undefeated.

"Floyd ranks himself with Ray Robinson, with Joe Louis, all these guys..but all those great guys, they all lost sometime. Mayweather won't take a hard fight, he won't take the chance of losing."

Peterson's assessment is similar.

"Pacquiao, he loves to fight. Mayweather is his own manager, he's a smart businessman. Paul is not old enough for Floyd to fight. Floyd likes to wait until a guy is old. Pacquiao is more gutsy than Floyd is," Peterson said.

Williams notes that the structure of boxing is that the best often don't fight the best.

"I can make 147 (pounds) for Floyd or for Manny if I have to and I would," Williams said. "But this isn't like baseball or football where the best teams are mandated to play each other. In boxing, these guys don't want to give me the shot."

Peterson said their frustration is that Williams is not yet a PPV attraction and that he hasn't been able to show his considerable skills against the upper echelon.

"If Paul could fight about every months, he would become a real monster in boxing. Then the fans would see how sensational he really can be.

"I think Paul, at this stage, is like Marvin Hagler was at one point. He is vicious, he strikes like a cobra but guys run away from fighting him like they did with Hagler," Peterson said.

With Pacman being almost 32 and Mayweather turning 34 next year, Williams feels he will get to the Number One P4P position without them.

But, instead of proclaiming himself as a ring great, he wants to prove it.

I"d like to be the best welterweight and the best middleweight. I'd like to be up there with Ray Leonard, with Tommy Hearns but I can't get there if I don't get the opportunity."

Williams understands the system.

"If the fans demand it, then HBO will hear them," Williams said. "Maybe HBO can make the top guys fight me. If it's demanded by the public, then maybe. But, when these guys fight and then take the microphone after they fight, who do they mention?

"You never hear them say my name, do you?"

Williams record is 39-1 with 27 KOs while Martinez is 45-2-2 with 24 knockouts.

http://www.examiner.com/boxing-in-national/paul-wi...

A few days after making his controversial comments on a video streaming network, Floyd Mayweather Jr. returned to Ustream late Friday night to clear the air with his fans and the boxing public. When Mayweather appeared on Ustream several days ago, some of his comments resulted in a mountain of negative press from the media and harsh comments from the boxing fans who watched the profane video.

Some of the comments Mayweather made from several days ago, like "cook him up with some barbecued dog" and "cook that yellow chump" and "I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice" and "this mother f**cker's name is Emmanuel. He got a fake name, taking power pellets" - sent a tidalwave of negative air in Mayweather's direction.

When Mayweather returned on the service late Friday night, he apologized to everyone for the comments. He made few excuses and said he "didn't really mean" any of it.

"I do want to apologize for what happened the other night. I want to apologize to everybody because everybody thought that it was a racist comment that I said. I don't have a racist bone in my body. I have nothing but love for everybody. Some of my guys are Muslim, some of my guys are Jews. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, whites, ...it doesn't matter. I got nothing but love in my heart. All i want to say is, if anybody was affected from what I said the other day, I apologize as a man. I was just having fun. I didn't really mean it," Mayweather said.

Prior to the apology, Mayweather discussed a possible fight with Pacquiao. He wants Pacquiao confident and ready to win, but also made it clear that a Pacquiao win won't happen.

"Manny Pacquiao, he truly believes that he's one of the best, but I know that I am the best, that's the difference," Mayweather said.

"I want him to believe that he's going to win. All 41 opponents that I faced thought that they were going to win, but that didn't happen."

During the broadcast, Mayweather sent his condolences to his former promoter Bob Arum for the recent loss of his oldest son, John, who lost his life as a result of a hiking accident in Seattle, Washington.

"God bless to Bob Arum and his whole family, because I heard that Bob Arum's son had a bad accident. Love to the whole Arum family," Mayweather said.

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=30633

"Mosley thinks it's a situation where Mayweather wants to control everything before the two fighters step in the ring and that strategy continues to result in the fight falling apart. He doesn't feel Mayweather is really concerned with Pacquiao being on steroids. Mosley sees it as a situation where Mayweather is using the issue of random blood testing to control Pacquiao before the fight.

"I think with Floyd, with the blood test, was to get control of the situation with Manny Pacquiao. Manny Pacquiao said 'forget you, do you know who I am? I'm not going to give you any control. I'm not giving you control of the situation.' And Floyd wants to take control of the situation before they actually get in the ring. Basically trying to win the battle before the fight, before they get in the ring. That's probably the strategy to his tactics," Mosley said."

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=30421

Another Floyd fan whose eyes got opened to the truth:

"Floyd Mayweather Jr. has always been one of my ride-or-die cats. Regardless of how thick the hate got, I was ridin' with him. 'Til death do us part. Except now I've come to a part in his boxing career where faith begins to fade.

And not just my faith, but the faith of millions of others.

See, the predestined, prematurely determined "Fight of the Century" against Manny Pacquiao is off again. Not going to happen this year. If ever. And this time the reason that there will be no fight -- unlike the last time where the two sides didn't agree on a drug-testing arrangement Mayweather and his camp wanted -- seems to be Floyd.

He's refusing to fight. He's refusing to make a statement (outside of his adviser/promoter Leonard Ellerbe saying that "no negotiations have ever taken place nor was there ever a deal agreed upon ... to fight Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 13.") in defense of why Pacquiao is fighting Antonio Margarito instead on that date.

He's refusing to do anything more than let live the statement he made last month claiming he's "not really thinking about boxing right now. I'm just relaxing. I fought about 60 days ago, so I'm just enjoying myself, enjoying life, enjoying my family, enjoying my vacation."

How long does a vacation last when the other world-dominating-pound-for-pound title holder puts the ball in your court, throws down the gauntlet in your corner? How long do you enjoy life when philosophically the "other side" is publicly putting your manhood out there to be questioned?"

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/sto...

I got curious about the said topic and did a little research and found the list of Top 12 PPV in Boxing's History:

1. Oscar De La Hoya vs. Floyd Mayweather, May 2007 - 2.4 million PPV buys

2. Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield (rematch), June 1997 - 1.99 million PPV buys

3. Mike Tyson vs Lennox Lewis, June 2002 - 1.97 million PPV buys

4. Mike Tyson vs Holyfield (1st match), November 1996 - 1.59 million PPV buys

5. Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley, August 1995 - 1.55 million PPV buys

6. Oscar De La Hoya vs. Felix Trinidad, September 1999 - 1.4 million PPV buys

Evander Holyfield vs George Foreman, April 1991 - 1.4 million PPV buys

Floyd Mayweather vs Shane Mosley, May 2010 - 1.4 million PPV buys

8. Mike Tyson vs. Frank Bruno, March 1996 - 1.37 million PPV buys

9. Pacquiao vs. De la Hoya, December 6, 2008 – 1.25 million PPV buys

Pacquiao vs. Cotto, November 14, 2009 – 1.25 million PPV buys

Mike Tyson vs. Razor Ruddock, June 1991 - 1.25 million PPV buys

12. Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis (1st fight), March 1999 - 1.2 million PPV buys

Now if we summarize that we have:

Mike Tyson was listed 6 times

Holyfield: 4 times

De La Hoya: 3 times

Pacquiao, Floyd, and Lewis: twice

Based on that list, it seems like Mike Tyson is the PPV King ... right? Well yes and no, because Mike's PPV number (12.4 million) came in a little bit short of DLH's 13.8 million. But Mike can still be considered as the king of earning the top 6 spots in PPV's Top 12 list.

So is DLH number one? Or is it Floyd who his fans kept on labeling him as the PPV King?

Well, before both fighters ended up in the ring together:

DLH has already sold 10.45 million on 17 PPV fights

while Floyd has only sold 1.1 million on his 3 PPV fights

Before this myth that Floyd is the PPV King came up ... DLH was the one being featured and selling PPVs left-and-right. And before the two met in the ring, this was Floyd's PPV numbers:

1. Arturo Gatti: 340,000

2. Zab Judah: 350,000

3. Carlos Baldomir: 320,000

Floyd hasn't reached even 400,000 PPV buys before he fought DLH. While DLH has already sold more than 1 million PPVs twice before he fought Floyd:

DLH vs Felix Trinidad (9/99) 1.4 million buys

Bernard Hopkins (9/04) 1 million buys

Not to mention his second fight with Shane Mosley that almost sold 1 million PPVs (950,000).

So not only was DLH being featured in PPV a lot more than Floyd. He was selling more than Floyd as well. So when the two met in the ring, who do you think was the main reason why their fight drew so much PPVs?

If Floyd didn't fight DLH that night, he would probably still continued his abysmal PPV streak of around 300,000.

So who is the real PPV King? For me, based on the total amount of PPV in their entire career ... it would be:

1st: DLH with 13.8 million PPV

2nd: Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield with 12.4m and 12.6 respectively

3rd: I dunno ... Floyd with 6.8 million?

I placed DLH 1st because the guy isn't a heavyweight. And at the time, heavyweight was the most popular division in boxing. So selling that amount of PPVs in a non-heavyweight division is really impressive.

Oh boy, as if ESPN, CNN, Yahoo Sports, and HBO Sports presidents comments wasn't enough ... here's another one:

http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/Kriegel-Floy...

Floyd is getting what he deserve ... big time.

This was De La Hoya's answer to a question posed in June, by Univision reporters, wanting to know what was happening with the talks:

"Up until now, it's been a very difficult negotiation process for various reasons, but right now we're very close. We're very close in finalizing the contracts that were once very complicated. The two fighters now realize that this fight must be made. It has to be made because the boxing fans want to see it happen and right now it's the biggest fight that can be made in the world. It's going to be a big, big fight. I think right now we are very, very close in finalizing the contracts. I can't talk right now in detail about the negotiations, but I will say that we are very close."

Asked about that Monday, De La Hoya's face took on a very serious look.

"I think I said it because I get the question asked so many times that, obviously, I was fed up and tired of it and I just said like, yeah, yeah, it's gonna get made," De La Hoya said to BoxingScene.com.

"So it was a quick answer that I should have obviously thought about. But, obviously, negotiations weren't going on. Nothing was going on. Like I said, Mayweather has the key to making that fight happen."

.... to be honest, he should have kept his mouth shut. His translation for his 6 sentence previous statement regarding the ongoing negotiations is: "yeah, yeah, it's gonna get made"?!

I'm not sure what he's trying to prove here. Is he trying to tell us that he is a promoter that lies to the press when interviewed? Or what he said before was true and he is now lying about it? Either way ... DLH is a liar.

I keep on seeing articles blaming Floyd for the fight not happening. While here on YA, Floyd fans are blaming Pac.

But who exactly would have benefited more if they ended up in the ring and won the match?

If Floyd beat Pacquiao:

- He will become The Ring Magazine's #1 P4P

- He defeated BWAA and HBO's Fighter of the Decade

- He defeated BWAA, ESPN's (etc) Fighter of the Year

- He defeated a record breaker of 7 champ titles in 7 different weight classes

If Pac defeats Floyd:

- He defeated The Ring Magazine's #1 Welterweight boxer

... and I guess that's it. Because even though Floyd is the PPV king, beating him has nothing to do with it. It's not like Floyd would recognize that he surpassed his previous PPV record because Pac was with him or anything. He (as always) will just take all the credit, like what he did when he fought DLH.

And even though Floyd will have a 1 on his loss record, there's no award or recognition for giving a boxer his first loss.

-this thread is Dewey Free-

Antonio Margarito's co-manager, Francisco Espinoza, spoke with reporter Reymond Colon, and said the "Tijuana Tornado" was delighted with the recent news that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto was open to a rematch. Margarito knocked Cotto out in eleven rounds two years ago.

After Margarito was suspended for loading his gloves prior to a January 2009 bout with Shane Mosley, heavy doubts began to hang above his win over Cotto. Espinoza says a rematch would prove that Margarito was a honest fighter in the first Cotto fight.

"I thought he was never going to agree to a rematch, and what's important is the fight benefits Margarito as much as it does Cotto. There are some aspects that make this more interesting than the first fight. And the people would realize that Margarito has always been conducted in an honest manner, and this would provide him with the opportunity to show it," Espinoza said.

Espinoza is not sure if they should go straight for the Cotto rematch, or try to win the vacant WBC junior middleweight title and then hold a unification with Cotto. Margarito is the #2 ranked fighter under the WBC. Espinoza expects the santioning organization to soon issue an order for Margarito and the #1 ranked Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to fight for the title. He doesn't expect Chavez Jr. to take the fight. More likely is a third meeting with the #3 ranked Kermit Cintron.

Before anything can happen, Margarito has to get approved for a license to box in the United States.

"This coming month we are going to go to the commission in California. I believe that we more or less fixed the situation. In January, Tony complied with a year of suspension and we are almost in July. He sat out an additional six months," Espinoza said.

Espinoza was impressed with Cotto's recent big win over Yuri Foreman on June 5.

"He looked impressive. He did very well and looked strong. I thought that it was going to be a hard fight since Margarito could not drop Daniel Santos and Foreman did. I do not know if was simply that Santos had a bad night, but I thought that it would be a hard fight for Cotto. Instead it was one of his easiest fights," Espinoza said.

http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=28643

"Inside Sports learned that Team Pacquiao had apparently submitted three different offers to the Mayweather handlers but the talks were stalled when Mayweather demanded a much bigger share of the revenues. Reports had earlier indicated Mayweather wanted a 60-40 split in his favor which was apparently promptly rejected by Pacquiao."

... and the drama continues

http://philboxing.com/news/story-40338.html

With all these thread regarding Pacquiao's losses in his Pro career ... let me try and change the mood a bit by asking why Floyd lost six times in his amateur career.

Here's the list:

- Arnulfo Bravo

- Nouredine Medjihoud

- Augie Sanchez

- Serafim Todorov

- Martin Castillo

- Carlos Navarro

Was it because he didn't have the luxury of picking his opponents? Or was it because like Pacquiao, he was still trying to improve his skills?

And why is it that it is okay for Floyd to lose six times in his early amateur career and now have an undefeated record ... but Pacquiao having only lost 3 times in his early Pro career isn't?

Why can't Pacquiao have a winning streak and not get accused of anything? When Floyd did exactly the same thing ... not to mention that they both started their careers at 106lbs.

Golden Boy CEO, Richard Schaefer, told FanHouse that Golden Boy President, Oscar de la Hoya, has been misrepresented in regard to the negotiations for a potential bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

De la Hoya reportedly has told some internet outlets that a deal is "Very close" to completion, to which Schaefer responded, "That's incorrect."

"I spoke to Oscar yesterday [Tuesday] and I wanted to know where that came from and he said that he was misquoted," said Schaefer, whose promotional company has represented Mayweather along with the fighter's Mayweather Promotions. "I saw those quotes as well, and I had no idea what Oscar was talking about. And I called him up and asked him about them and he that he was misquoted."

Schaefer said that he "I really can not comment" on the status of the negotiations.

But on Wednesday, Top Rank Promotions' CEO, Bob Arum, who represents seven-division king, Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs), said that he is "optimistic" concerning a bout occurring between the Filipino star and six-time champion Mayweather (41-0, 25 knockouts).

Mayweather-Pacquiao initially appeared to be set for March 13 at the MGM Grand before talks reached an impasse in December over random drug testing for both fighters to be conducted by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

But since the original talks collapsed, a mutually agreed upon gag order is in place for all parties involved in the negotiations until the talks are complete.

"As you can see, you don't see any quotes from me," said Schaefer. "There's absolutely no comment from my side."

A few days ago I posted an article where Floyd Sr. had nothing but bad things to say about Pacquiao. At that time, he wasn't able to control his feelings about his son not getting any awards. To my surprise, there wasn't a single Floyd fan who posted there ... then again what can they do ... call BWAA (an American association) a scam?

Now this is yet another interview with Floyd Sr. ... where at some point of the interview ... he gave credit to not only Pacquiao ... but also Freddy Roach:

"“I’m not saying this man (Roach) doesn’t know what he’s doing,” Mayweather Sr. says of his fellow trainer. “I commend him because he’s sick and he’s still doing it"

Given that Floyd fans believe everything that comes out of the mouth of the Mayweather's ... I'd like to see if they are now going to also start giving credit to Pacquiao and Roach. Or are they now going to start calling Floyd Sr a liar? Or maybe come up with yet another excuse?

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-22973-Las-Vegas...

"What award they gonna give my son when he whoops Pacquiao," stated world-class trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr., who was highly disappointed with the decision of the Boxing Writers Association of America to award Filipino boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao with the "Fighter of the Decade" award. Obviously feeling that his son, Floyd Mayweather Jr., should have received the award, Sr. went on to call into question Pacquiao's accomplishments.

"Pacquiao ain't no ******* fighter of the decade. He is a pussy," a heated Mayweather Sr. commented. "Pacquiao has 2 draws and a loss in this decade. Lil' Floyd is undefeated in this decade and in his career. On top of that, Pacquiao beat 2 guys Lil' Floyd already beat and struggled twice with a guy Floyd blanked out 12 rounds to nothing," he added, implying that Pacquiao's achievments pale in comparison to those of his son.

Not only feeling that his son was slighted, Mayweather Sr. also believes that the true boxing fans, as well as the sport itself, was slighted with the BWAA's pick. "That's the kind of **** that hurts boxing. It makes no sense. Too many people in the sport don't know what the ****'s going on. That kind of **** right there is why boxing stays on the ropes," he added.

....can't we create an imaginary award for Floyd? I mean the flomos have always given him one ... right? "the imaginary pound-for-pound title" and how can we forget ... "the delusional best fighter in the world" title. why not create a trophy or something tangible, and toss that bone to this hungry boxer who isn't getting any recognition.

isn't there any floyd fan in the BWAA? I mean c'mon!

http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content7787.html

I really find it hard to believe that those people who trust the Mayweather's believe their garbage because they are sure that they're telling us the truth. I think they're doing that because their brain is soaked in fanboyism.

Isn't their criminal records proof enough that they shouldn't be trusted?

Here's Floyd Jr.'s criminal records:

- In 2002, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was slapped two charges of misdemeanor for domestic violence. He pleaded guilty in both counts.

- In 2003, in another ungentlemanly gesture, Floyd Jr. was hailed to court for assaulting his girlfriend, the mother of his children, outside a Las Vegas club.

- In 2004, Mayweather figured in a misdemeanor battery against two women in a Las Vegas nightclub. For that ugly abuse, he received a one-year suspended sentence, a $1,000 fine, and an order for him to seek counseling for ‘impulse control.’

- That same year (2004), a bouncer he hit on the head inside a bar filed a misdemeanor assault and battery charges. A warrant of arrest was issued against Floyd Jr. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after he failed to show up at the trial. To avert complications, he pleaded no contest, was fined and ordered to do community service.

- Last year (2009), Floyd Jr.’s house was searched by law enforcers after witnesses linked Mayweather’s car to a Las Vegas skating rink shooting. One of his subalterns was positively identified as the culprit.

What about Floyd Sr.?

- He spent a five-year jail time after he was convicted for drug trafficking in 1993. He was said to be part of a ring smuggled cocaine delivered in boxes of laundry detergent.

What about Uncle Roger?

- He was arrested in August 2009 for assaulting Mellisa St. Vil, a former lady protégé. According to the charge sheet, she was hit several times in the ribs, choked and spat blood as a result.

As for their intelligence and accusations:

That mother***** is on the A-side meth, that's what the f*** he's on," "It's called the A-side meth. He on that or he on something else. The A-side meth is what they used to have 500 years ago. Remember when the Philippines were fighting the US soldiers? They were shooting them motherf****s with 45s. And 45s were bouncing off their motherf****ng a$$. They weren't even dying!" -- Roger Mayweather

What the hell is A-side Meth?

What 500 year old war was he talking about?

Are Filipino's a bunch of super-soldiers that bullets bounces off of them?

And wow, have we now also discovered that Filipino soldiers are incapable of dying?

That same guy also said that the Philippines is the best source of performance-enhancing drug. Yet another accusation that has no proof.

Now, he is accusing Pacquiao of taking PEDs and the flomos actually believed him.

Just how stupid should you get to actually convince yourself that they're telling us the truth? How low should you go? I guess I will never know ... because I am no Flomo.

I'm just curious. Is there proof to backup this claim?

I got this info from one of the members here in YA

Voy, former Chief Medical Office of the USOC, said current blood testing as to HGH is "ureliable and impractical."

He also said, "HGH is out there and there's not much we can do about it."

As far as EPO testing, Voy said, "I'm of the opinion that EPO is not a performance enhancer in boxing or that it gives you more endurace although that is the perception."

Regarding urine testing, Voy said it should be random and "closer to the event, the better."

Voy also said that while tiny amounts of blood are drawn for testing "it can be dangerous."

That was theme Dr. Watson chimed in on, saying, "I believe that urine is the best substance to test. I agree with Dr. Voy that urine (random testing) is what we should require and that blood is not necessary.

"I agree with Dr. Voy that there are theoretical and real risks to blood testing one of which is a (boxer getting) a hematoma on the elbow or a clot from missing a vein. There are also HIV and Hepatitis C risks."

Dr. Watson said blood testing should be curtailed "within three to four weeks before (a fight) so that the hemotoma risk does not put a fighter at a disadvantage."

source: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5699-Boxing-Exa...

Former chief ringside physician, Dr. David Watson, argued that a hematomas, infections or other injuries could develop in the arm as a result of the skin being punctured "within three weeks of a fight."

"Dr. Watson has done thousands of weigh-in physicals and done thousands of fights. He's viewed tons of medical records. What Dr. Watson was kind of saying was that on some occasions with fighters, he would notice hematomas on the inside of the elbow where they gave blood," said Keith Kizer, executive director of the NSAC.

"So Dr. Watson was concerned that you could have fighters who -- if you take blood too close to the fight -- you could run the risk of something like that developing in a fighter," said Kizer. "That could cause an effect on their performance, especially when they've had to do fights on late notice, for the infections diseases -- Hepetitus A, Hepititis B, and HIV -- and they had to give blood for that."

Kizer said that another doctor, Robert Voy, formerly of United States Olympic Committee drug testing, "brought up the fact that you can have infections."

Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, CEO of Top Rank Promotions, for example, believes that he knows why USADA ended its random blood testing so far out from the May 1 fight date.

"You notice that they stopped blood testing in the Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley fight about 18 days before. Well, I'm not a doctor, but you have to realize that a fighter uses his arms a lot like a runner uses his legs. You can't take blood too close to the fight. Two or three weeks before the fight he can get a hematoma which can prevent him from either training or fighting," said Arum.

"If it's done further out before the fight, then there's no real problem. But closer to the fight, there's a real problem. For a fighter to lose the last week in training or the week before the fight is a disaster for a fighter," said Arum. "That could happen if he gets a hematoma in the arm that's used for the blood test. USADA, whatever, they might say, must have recognized this, and I believe that that's why they didn't test for blood before 18 days."

I guess not every single American out there are being fooled by the Mayweather's smear campaign against Pacquiao. Here's a portion of an article I just read from now boxing's website:

"People that think Manny has used performance enhancing drugs don’t understand Asian culture. They are a lot less likely to put anything harmful in their bodies than Americans. It is also considered dishonorable to your country to win by cheating. Many Americans don’t understand this because they have a win at all cost mentality.

Lets look at how many American athletes have been proven to have PED’s in their systems at one point in their careers. Sugar Shane Mosley, Barry Bonds, James Toney, Ben Johnson, Mark McGwire, Roy Jones Jr., Marion Jones, Alex Rodriguez etc. Now name me an Asian born athlete that has been caught using Roids. The only guy I can think of is that kick boxer in the movie “Ong Bak” that injected himself with something before fighting Tony Jaa. It’s also no coincidence that African-Americans top the list of known steroid users.

But what about the Olympics where USADA tests every country. Asia has to send their own to compete and I can’t really think of any Asian athletes that were tested positive. I know China had the age scandal but that has nothing to do with injecting something in your body to improve performance. However, I do know Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson and US gold medalist Marion Jones were stripped of their medals for steroid use. Even during the steroid scandal in baseball not ONE Asian player came out on any list even though there are a substantial amount of Asian baseball players.

As an American, I know that as great of a country we live in, we can also sometimes be the biggest hypocrites. We love to point out problems of others while ignoring our own problems. Before we accuse others we should look at our own athletes and wonder why fighters from other countries haven’t demanded our own boxers to undergo advanced testing."

http://www.nowboxing.com/2010/05/manny-pacquiao-an...