The Nevada Sports Athletic Commission (NSAC) has finally released the test results for Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. They are both negative for taking performance enhancement drugs or steroids.
Pacquiao's laboratory tests were done in his hometown in General Santos, but were sent to Malaysia while Mayweather Jr.'s testing was done in Las Vegas and sent to Arizona.
The reports came after the collapsed of fight agreement between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. The fight could have been one of the biggest fights in boxing history.
In a related news, unconfirmed reports says that Mayweather is set to schedule a fight in Las Vegas on the same date that Manny Pacquiao will be fighting Joshua Clottey. However, Golden Boy has not yet found a suitable opponent for Floyd Mayweather.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Mayweather's Camp has Officially Chicken Out
Top Rank promoter, Bob Arum, has announced that the mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather will no longer push through. This announcement came after long hours of mediation session from both camps.
Although neither side was allowed to provide specifics of their dispute, Mayweather apparently resisted at a hard-fought compromise in the testing issues first raised by the former welterweight champion.
"I knew this was going to happen," said a weary Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter. "You had to play it out."
The promoters went into the hourlong mediation Tuesday hoping to reach an agreement on the drug testing issue for the fight. Mayweather's camp demanded random blood testing in addition to unlimited urine testing, with Pacquiao resisting at the stringent requests.
"I've been saying this for years: He's a psychological coward who doesn't want to fight anybody who has a chance of beating him," Arum said. "He walked away from a rematch with Oscar (De La Hoya) that would have paid him a fortune because De La Hoya held him close in the first fight (in May 2007)."
Arum said there's "no chance ever of salvaging it for March, no chance for it ever to happen." He plans to propose a mid-March bout with 154-pound champion Yuri Foreman to Pacquiao, who could become a champion in his eighth weight class.
Although neither side was allowed to provide specifics of their dispute, Mayweather apparently resisted at a hard-fought compromise in the testing issues first raised by the former welterweight champion.
"I knew this was going to happen," said a weary Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter. "You had to play it out."
The promoters went into the hourlong mediation Tuesday hoping to reach an agreement on the drug testing issue for the fight. Mayweather's camp demanded random blood testing in addition to unlimited urine testing, with Pacquiao resisting at the stringent requests.
"I've been saying this for years: He's a psychological coward who doesn't want to fight anybody who has a chance of beating him," Arum said. "He walked away from a rematch with Oscar (De La Hoya) that would have paid him a fortune because De La Hoya held him close in the first fight (in May 2007)."
Arum said there's "no chance ever of salvaging it for March, no chance for it ever to happen." He plans to propose a mid-March bout with 154-pound champion Yuri Foreman to Pacquiao, who could become a champion in his eighth weight class.
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