Robert V

6 months not enough time for a cut to heal?

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2011/12/arum-maybe-may...

Speaking with the telegraph.co.uk, Khan said “He [Pacquiao] wouldn’t beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. For his sake, we have to be honest. He is my friend…I’m going to tell him to consider retirement and not go on too long. He has some serious thinking to do. He was lucky and he got away with it against Marquez.”

Khan is Manny's long time sparring partner & considered a friend of Pacquiao's

According to SI:

"I can't believe I was so f*****g wrong," Roach said. "I thought we were going to walk right through him. I thought he was going to come in with all that muscle, try to bang with Manny and he would get him out of there. But I honestly thought we needed to win those last two rounds to win the fight."

"First round," Roach said, a frustrated scowl on his face. "Manny started moving into right hands, just like we worked on not doing. He fell right back into the old way he fought this guy. I was afraid of that. The writing was on the wall and I said to myself, 'this is going to be a long night.' The way he moves, he dictates Manny to move into that right hand. And he did it all night long. His footwork is excellent. That was his biggest advantage in the fight."

Roach said. "That's why I really don't want to fight him next. But you know, it wouldn't be right if we didn't give him a rematch. It would be bulls**t if we didn't."

I would imagine that Roach is a lot more concerned today about Pacquiao's chances against Mayweather than he was last week. When I asked Roach who his ideal next opponent would be, he said something I thought I'd never hear.

"Maybe a tuneup fight," Roach said.

Now, that's unlikely on so many levels. The public isn't going to pay for Pacquiao to work out his issues against Steve Molitor or Joel Casamayor. So unless Pacquiao wants to go back on HBO, that's out of the question. That would be a tough sell on Arum, too, who is looking at a finite window to make money off Pacquiao before he makes politics his full time job.

That's what makes another fight with Marquez more probable.

I'm hearing reports that he has chronic vaginal pains.

No wonder he couldn't complain about Mayweather's "sucker punch" after the fight.

Check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBpiXNo-DZM&feature...

Explains it all.

USADA is Non-profit, endorsed by the US Government (where Pacquiao makes his money), and has been testing both American and international athletes for greater than a decade.

Yet Arum & Manny are questioning the USADA. This is an thumb in the eye and a insult to the host country Manny makes his money in. How can you better your life using our system and then turnaround and question our integrity? If we are a neutral enough place to earn a living you should fall under our rules of law.

Manny can sue under US laws and make millions under US laws, but somehow he can’t be randomly tested under USADA because is US based?

Now they want us to believe that a NON-PROFIT organization endorsed by the US GOVERNMENT that’s been testing athletes BOTH FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC for the past DECADE isn’t fit to test a single boxer? Really?

By Jim Dower: Justin Fortune, a former trainer for Manny Pacquiao, thinks Manny should go ahead and take the Olympic style random blood tests that Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants. In an interview by Ellie Seckbach of Boxing.fanhouse.com, Fortune says “I have no problems with Mayweather asking for drug tests for any fight. Every other sport gets proper testing, except boxing. A piss test? Are you kidding me? They are easy to get around. When there is so much money at stake in this game, do a proper test. I have no problem with random tests. If you’re clean, you’re clean. “ Fortune comes from Australia and fought at heavyweight, taking on fighters like Lennox Lewis, Andrew Maynard and Kali Meehan during his career. He now has his own gym called the “Fortune gym” in Los Angeles.

Pacquiao doesn’t like to have blood taken from his body because he feels that it weakens him for his fights. As of today, he reportedly has agreed to a 14 day window of no blood testing before a fight with Mayweather. Previously, Pacquiao wanted 24 days of no testing before the fight. Mayweather wouldn’t agree to this and their fight didn’t happen.

Speaking about Pacquiao’s so called fear of needles, Fortune says “Well what about all those f***ing tattoos on him? Pretty hard to be afraid of needles when there is a tattoo of a gun all over your f***ing arm. I do love Manny but you’re going to use an excuse, use something that’s more plausible. I’m afraid of needles but I have tattoos.” At that point in the interview, Fortune rolled his eyes and looked slightly disgusted.

Fortune thinks that Mayweather will beat Pacquiao if and when they do fight, saying “Mayweather is quick. Just as quick if not a little quicker than Manny, I think, and slick. He [Pacquiao]will never be able to land a proper combination on Mayweather. The son of b**ch can fight.”

This is what many people also feel about the fight. Israel Vazquez was interviewed briefly and he thinks that Mayweather would beat Pacquiao as well. The blood testing issue may not even be the hardest part of putting the mega fight together between Mayweather and Pacquiao now. It may come to the revenue split. Mayweather will likely be emboldened by his better pay per view numbers in his recent fight against Shane Mosley compared to Pacquiao’s fight against Joshua Clottey and could want a better deal than 50-50, which is what the last deal was during Mayweather’s failed negotiation for a fight with Pacquiao in February.