IT’S back to the training camp for Manny Pacquiao amid the contentious developments in the proposed megafight between the Filipino ring icon and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach said the Filipino ring icon “will arrive in California next week to begin training for his next bout,” boxing website Fighthype.com reported Saturday.
The Nevada boxing commission had already ordered Pacquiao and Mayweather last Tuesday to submit to urine tests to break the impasse that has jeopardized the monumental showdown slated March 13.
But the proposed fight received another blow when Pacquiao sued Mayweather—along with the American’s father Floyd Sr., his uncle Roger and Golden Boy Promotions for accusing him of using performance -enhancing drugs—in a federal court in Las Vegas just before the year ended.
Fighthype.com also reported that Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum has also eyed newly crowned WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman as the likely replacement for Mayweather.
“Our preference if we go to Foreman would still be to fight March 13 at the MGM,” the website quoted Arum. “But if there were another event on that night, we could go to March 20 at the Thomas & Mack.”
Arum also targeted earlier Italian-American Paul Malignaggi, a flashy but light-hitting boxer.
But Roach isn’t keen on Pacquiao fighting Foreman and even proposed, in a separate interview recently, that his top ward battle Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez for the third time.
Pacquiao captured an unprecedented seventh title in seven weight classes following his 12th-round stoppage of welterweight champion Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas last November.
The feat kicked off the public clamor for a bout between the Filipino pound-for-pound king and the unbeaten Mayweather (40-0).
But the lucrative bout hit a snag when Mayweather demanded Olympic-style dope testing, a request rejected by Pacquiao.
Mayweather later backed off on his demand for the tests to be conducted by the US Anti-Doping Agency, but insisted that tests be done randomly and include blood tests within 30 days before the fight.
Source: inquirer.net
Sunday, January 3, 2010
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Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao
mayweather is a looser, a runner,afraid of shane mosley, williams, even marquez bcoz he came to the fight overweight, and now to manny pacquio.he'll make unacceptable anvantage, he needs it just to win. just like what he did to marquez, and now to manny. he wants manny to undergo intensive blood testing few weeks just before the fight.. are you insane? if mayweather really feels his the best then show it to the wold... fight manny then both of then just follow the usual rules in undergoing blood test. mayweather is simply afraid... so afraid that if he losses the fight, he has nothing to boast to the world...
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