Pacquiao-Mayweather Negative Result on Drug Tests

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.

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.

The War on Pacquiao vs Mayweather has Started

It looks like the fight of Pacquiao vs Mayweather will not be fought into the ring but into court. As soon as the camp of Floyd Mayweather Jr. has turned down Bob Arum's ultimate proposal to mega-buck fight, Manny Pacquiao fired back at his potential opponent's camp, filing a defamation case Wednesday.

Manny Pacquiao, distinguished by many as boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter, filed an oral defamation suit in U.S District Court in Nevada against Floyd Mayweather Jr, Mayweather Sr. Roger Mayweather, Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya.

Pacquiao insisted that he cannot afford his name and years of hard work be tarnished by allegations of him taking performance enhancing drugs. It is being noted that the Mayweather Camp has issued statements regarding Manny using performance drugs in his fights.

Nevada State Athletic Commission has order a directive to both Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to submit their urine samples for testing which Manny has already complied.

In the meantime, Top-Rank Promoter Bob Arum said that he is looking for an alternate fight for Pacquaio on March 20 against either Jr. Middleweight champion Yuri Foreman or former Jr. Welterweight champ Paul Malignaggi.

A win by Pacquiao over Foreman will give him his eighth championship in eight weight divisions.

No More Pacquiao vs Mayweather Fight

It looks like the megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will no longer push through as Mayweather’s chief adviser, Leonard Ellerbe, and negotiator, Richard Schaefer turned down Bob Arum's 'final counter offer'. Arum had given the Mayweather camp until Monday to decide on the final proposal that both parties let the Nevada State Athletic Commission to make the final decision on the blood tests issue.

According to Yahoo! Sports, Arum suggested that both sides explain to the NSAC why their “preferred (blood) testing system” should be used or followed, and let the Nevada body make the final decision.

Mayweather required an Olympic-style blood testing to be managed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Under the said agreement, both Manny and Floyd should agree to as many as five blood and 12 urine tests - randomly.

Freddie Roach said it’s so random that that USADA can knock on your doors in the middle of the night to get blood or urine samples, in the weeks, days or just hours before the fight, and shortly afterwards.

Pacquiao’s camp said there’s no need for such, and has agreed to three blood tests (one on the first week of January, then 30 days before the match and another after the match, but was again unacceptable to Mayweather.

Arum made the offer of letting the NSAC to decide. And if the Mayweathers does not accept the agreement, the Top Rank president said he could seal a Pacquiao fight with Paulie Malignaggi on March 13 “within an hour.”

Arum may find himself making the phone call when he wakes up Monday morning while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico after Ellerbe and Schaefer literally thumbed down the final counter offer from Top Rank.

Pacquiao is currently on vacation with his family in Gen. Santos City and his adviser, Mike Koncz, said the 31-year-old boxing superstar doesn’t want to make any further comment on the matter.

The other day, Schaefer said Mayweather can do away with the USADA, and it’s just a matter of both camps agreeing on the dates of the blood tests just to make sure that they’re still effective.

But that was the other day.

“We are prepared to have this handled in a way that is not us deciding or them deciding,” said Arum. “The commission meets on Jan. 19. Mayweather’s people can say why they believe additional testing above what we agreed to as necessary and we can give our viewpoint.

“Let the commission decide. If they come away and decide Manny needs to be blood tested every single [expletive] day, then we will go with that. This is the way to go to give this thing legitimacy. I hope they [Team Mayweather] see reason.”

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