MANILA, Philippines - Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao said Saturday that the super fight between him and Floyd Mayweather Jr. now depends on the American boxer after he has agreed to undergo a blood test 14 days before their faceoff.
"Talagang hindi siya lalaban kung mangatwiran ulit siya," Pacquiao told radio dzMM when asked what he would do if Mayweather comes up with a new demand.
He said that if ever the superfight fails to push through, he may still fight another boxer or just retire and focus on his newfound career in politics.
Pacquiao has been proclaimed as winner in Sarangani Province's congressional race. He toppled a member of a powerful political clan in the province.
The Filipino boxer said he will take a 1-week crash course on public administration and governance at the University of the Philippines.
He said he is also determined to finish his business management course at the Notre Dame University in 2 years and then take up law.
Pacquiao clarified Friday that the blood that would extracted from him should only be minimal for the drug test.
“Pumayag naman ako pero hindi yung talagang maraming dugo na kukunin. Kung anong dugo ang kelangan sa drug test, ganoon lang karami. Fourteen days [before the fight],” Pacquiao told ABS-CBN News' Dyan Castillejo.
Pacquiao said during the radio interview that he has yet to receive a feedback from the camp of Mayweather.
The reigning World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion said he softened his stand after listening to boxing fans’ clamor for a mega fight between him and Mayweather.
“Everywhere I go… gusto talaga nila ng Mayweather fight. [They ask me] over and over,” said Pacquiao.
Pacquiao made the decision to fight the former pound-for-pound king weeks after he received permission from his mother, Dionisia Pacquiao, for one last bout.
The blood test controversy was the reason the negotiations between the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps collapsed early this year.
The two would have fought last March 13, but Mayweather ended up fighting Shane Mosley and Pacquiao battling Ghana's Joshua Clottey.
Pacquiao’s camp earlier agreed to undergo tests 24 days before the fight, but Mayweather’s group insisted that blood should be taken 14 days prior to the fight.
Blood test as the drug protocol is the personal requirement for Mayweather. Athletic commissions require urine tests on boxers as the form of drug testing, and Pacquiao has never had a problem.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said he learned the last day for blood testing used by Mayweather and "Sugar" Shane Mosley in their recent fight was 18 days prior to the fight.
"The USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) stopped the blood test... they took 5 or 6 tests but the last one was 18 days for Mosley and 19 days for Mayweather," he told ABS-CBN News' Dyan Castillejo in a phone interview.
Source: abs-cbnnews.com
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao
this is crazy, pac act as if he done whatever it took 2 make the fight happen. hell yeah a fighter should get more than u, shoot he sold ppv 5 to ur 1 of coarse and if that was u fighting tougher opponents you'll want the same. then u turned down the fight come back another yrs. later and say I want that latest demand u once turned down, u is a waste of time and real boxing fans know u dont have that type of ability 2 win and win against all odds, Ur the ducker, u duck mosley 2wice another dumb fighter willing 2 drain himself 4 paycheck,lol wow p4p king manny punkiao a fighter that fight losers not winners. LOL Hahaha, tighten up manny everyone willing 2 support this fight, u getting over 20 mill. get in that ring, Bob and Roach might have 2 drag u in there. lol
ReplyDeleteGod damn it!! i hope mayweahter goes to hell!!! i wanna see the pacquiao and weather fight! tangina naman
ReplyDeleteWho"s fought better fighters over the past 3 years? Pacquiao of course, and he"s come so far out his weight class to take on fighters that supposedly had more power than. Ducking? I think not. He wants to fight by the rules set forth by the authorities. Mayweather is not that authority. Now that MP has agreed to 14 days before, you think that FMJ is not pinking out? What, he should have to give blood the day of??? They should give the winner all of the money, then we"ll see Floyd KFC "We do CHICKEN right" Mayweather Jr find another excuse. Can't wait until Manny shuts FMJ up and all of his fans can go away again. Mabuhay!
ReplyDeleteHey, you guys, do you think gayweather will fight manny paquiao? No, because he scared paquiao's punch, Now paquiao is dangerous, once gayweather hit by paquiao right hand he's gonna be hospitalize, and once he hit by left hand he's gonna be in danger because paquiao's left hand is cemetery. That's the reason why Floyd Gayweather don't want to fight Paquiao.
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