Enlightened-One wrote: ↑12 Jul 2020, 00:50
BroughtonRulesRefuge wrote: ↑11 Jul 2020, 19:45
Enlightened-One wrote: ↑11 Jul 2020, 06:41
Mayweather and Pacquiao’s handlers had agreed the financial terms, the venue and the date of the bout.
The only stumbling block was Pacquiao’s refusal to undergo drug testing.
There’s a YouTube video of Manny being interviewed and confirming his refusal to agree to the terms demanding he had to undergo PED testing.
The $40m purse agreed upon during 2010 definitely wasn’t a lowball offer.
Instead of making up fictional excuses, do your research.
- Your pretentious boxing expert facade has developed so many cracks in it that you no longer know which one to do your daily squat that informs forms your current soiled mess.
The purse terms were quickly hammered out in 2010 with Floydsy reserving the date and venue that fit in with Manny's political schedule. It was a 50/50 split with a record setting purse guarantee much like Ali/Frazier I and Ali/Foreman were. Fight fans everywhere were estatic over this first ever Ring P4P shootout, but then...
At the witching hour Floydsy inserts his infamous non standard "Olympic drug testing" demand that Floydsy never once adhered to in his boxing or promotional life, actually becoming a notorious drug cheats in both endeavors.
They entered into last minute offers as Floydsy went down and Manny went up until they were down to the final blood testing date.
Manny has obviously met every drug testing requirement in his career with nary a single failed test, whisper of a failed test, or refusal of a test.
So time for you to get out your Sharpie Permanent Marker to draw a circle around your primary offending crack so you can chose the correct one to squat to that will save you your current state of embarrassing circumstances.
And remember, 6 yrs later Floydsy refused to sign drug testing penalty contract of a paltry $5k in a fight netting him over $200 mil that aptly earned him his Backdated TUE moniker when not referring to his baby mama beater days, but hey ho, no biggie in EnFrightenedOne world, right?
Yeah
There was nothing last-minute about the March 12th 2010 fight-date that GBP & Top Rank had agreed to, because the terms were negotiated and everything agreed in 2009, except for the PED testing.
I’ve provided interview transcripts proving Mayweather insisted on Olympic style drug testing administered by USADA that adhered to the WADA code.
There was nothing non-standard about it.
Manny didn’t want any blood based testing.
He rejected a (then) career best payday to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. because he didn’t want to be exposed as a drug cheat.
Manny already held the WBO world welterweight title at this point in time, which was a belt he captured from Miguel Cotto. So he wasn’t making a jump in weight class.
And after ducking Floyd Mayweather Jr., he performed a title defence against Joshua Clottey instead.
I’ve already provided a YouTube video of Manny confirming this and an ESPN article quoting the words of GBP’s Richard Schaefer and Top Rank’s Bob Arum and Todd Duboef.
Stop pretending to rewrite history and do your research.
Manny ducked Floyd in 2010.
It happened.
It is categorically impossible for any human being to disprove this claim.
Time machine’s don’t exist.
No one can go back in time to change the real-world events I’ve accurately described.
- All that inhaling of fragrance at the men's stalls be givin' you brain damage. Or you've completed the transition to congenital liar. The diagnosis is still pending, but it ain't no secret why you don't like Manny and it has nothing to do with boxing.
Out of context boxing interviews and quotations years later always laughable.
The 12th is a Friday, never a big fight day. The 13th rings clear as church bells to me all these years later because I was there in the moment of the biggest fight in history to be made as well as all the other details as mentioned. Manny made Floyd's date, not Floyd, because your Joy Boy knew he'd be shamed forever in the PPV competition.
Yup, too scared even glove it up at his reserved MGM venue on his reserved day!
Floyd chose non standard drug testing because someone close to him put into his dumbfounded existence that they could demand something no pro sport has ever done before or since save maybe pro track and field. It ain't Olympic drug testing announced 3 months prior to the fight that Floyd late in his TBA career reduced down to 4 weeks. It ain't Olympic drug testing when the testing parameters are negotiated up and down. Olympic athletes have no such luxuries, but of course what you know about drug testing is shoehorned somewhere within that shrinking nanogram IQ of yours.
I sometimes disagree with Boxrec synopsis of events and fights, but they nailed the Jello of Pink Floyd to the wall in this example.
https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Floy ... y_Pacquiao
Mayweather and Pacquiao were originally expected to fight in 2010. On December 4, 2009, ESPN.com reported: "Manny Pacquiao likely will fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. on March 13. . . . If the fight is agreed upon, there likely would be a Jan. 11 news conference in New York to announce it. The bout could be the richest ever, assuming pay-per-view projections are accurate. . . . Representatives of the Superdome in New Orleans and the new Cowboys Stadium in Dallas have expressed interest in hosting the fight, as has the MGM Grand hotel-casino in Las Vegas." A contract sent on December 11, 2009, by Golden Boy Promotions on behalf of Mayweather to Top Rank on behalf of Pacquiao proposed a 50-50 financial split between the sides for a fight that would have been held March 13, 2010. The eight-page agreement was so detailed that it indicated which of the two fighters would step onto the scale first at the weigh-in (Pacquiao), who would walk to the ring first (Pacquiao), who would be introduced first (Mayweather), and who had first choice of the locker room (Mayweather). It detailed that the bout would have been on HBO Pay-Per-View at a cost of $59.95. Billing was to be "Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, presented by Top Rank, Golden Boy Promotions, Mayweather Promotions and M-P Promotions in association with [approved sponsors and the site]." Pacquiao's side declined the contract offer because Pacquiao objected to Mayweather's demand for drug testing. Mayweather insisted on Olympic-style drug testing "to ensure fair play and sportsmanship by both fighters." Mayweather wanted blood tests up to 14 days before the fight, but Pacquiao would not agree to testing within 24 days of the bout. Pacquaio cited his 2005 loss to Erik Morales as the reason. Two days before he fought Morales, Pacquiao had to have blood drawn because the Nevada State Athletic Commission said he had failed to submit to a mandatory medical examination within the prescribed 30-day period before the fight. As a result, Pacquiao said he went into the fight feeling drained and weak. 3, 4
On December 30, 2009, Pacquiao filed suit in U.S. District Court in Nevada against Floyd Mayweather Jr., Floyd Mayweather Sr., Roger Mayweather, Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions executives Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer, alleging that they made false and defamatory statements accusing him of taking performance-enhancing drugs. The case was settled out of court in September 2012. Terms of the agreement were confidential. In a statement released on September 25 through the mediator in the case, the Mayweathers said they "wish to make it clear that they never intended to claim that Manny Pacquiao has used or is using any performance-enhancing drugs, nor are they aware of any evidence that Manny Pacquiao has used performance-enhancing drugs." 5, 6
Oh the shame of the shameless
