Money’s Counter

Everyone wants to see the Pacquiao vs Mayweather fight, everyone except Floyd Mayweather Sr., who apparently has some issues, and said recently that he thinks Pacquiao’s ability to absorb punches is because he is using steriods and doesn’t want his son to have to fight him. Not unless they get more than 50% of the purse. Mayweather insists on getting more than 1/2 because “he is more than 1/2 of the reason people will want to watch the fight.” He is wrong!.

pacman-mayweather“Both sides need to look at the big picture,” says HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg. “That’s a boatload of cash and a fight that America wants.”

Mayweather’s father, Floyd Sr., told SI he would advise his son not to face Pacquiao, saying that he believed Pacquiao’s ability to absorb Cotto’s shots and keep coming is proof that Pacquiao is taking performance-enhancing substances — an accusation for which he had no proof. “I know Floyd is the best,” says Mayweather Sr. “But when [your opponent] uses something illegal, even the best can get hurt.

However there simply is NO evidence and no reason to believe such a claim.  Nevada rules, which have been in place since 2002, require fighters to submit urine samples before every fight. Those samples are tested for 40 kinds of steroids, diuretics and masking agents. Pacquiao has never tested positive. Pacquiao’s conditioning coach, Alex Ariza, says the only substances Pacquiao took leading up to the fight were whey protein and liver-support supplements, while consuming a 6,500-calories-per-day diet.

So the battle of words is starting well before any fight will start, but the fight will happen, there are 100 million reasons why.

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Posted by GenXXL Staff on Nov 26th, 2009 and filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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