So long as Filipino welterweight boxing champion and living legend, Manny Pacquiao, disagrees with the drug testing procedures his slated opponent Floyd Mayweather Jr. insists he adheres to, this bout will not happen. Mayweather Jr. and Sr., their entourage, even Oscar De La Hoya, claim 'PacMan' is doping. Standard doping tests for professional boxers include urine samples before and after fights however, Mayweather Jr. is demanding that Pacquiao agree to Olympic style drug testing, which includes random blood and urine tests that would commence once the contracts are signed.
Pacquiao meanwhile, refuses to agree and has since filed a defamation suit against Mayweather Jr. and his group for damages to reputation. Good for PacMan. Here we have a multimillion dollar athlete, who grew up without a high school education, and he has since passed his high school equivalency exams, and enrolled into Notre Dame of Dadiangas University so he can obtain a university degree for his post-boxing political career. Mayweather's claims therefore, are certainly damaging to Pacquiao's 'from the ground up' reputation.
Without a hint of naivete from yours truly, I am well aware there's a chance Pacquiao is doping, but there's also a chance most other professional athletes are as well, Mayweather Jr. included. Just because Oscar De La Hoya, and a handful of other of Pacquiao's Mexican chumps say he doped (because he spoon fed them the meaning of 'whoop ass'), does not legitimize their unsubstantiated and harmful accusations. If Mayweather is scared, and he should be, he should reconsider fighting PacMan, instead of smearing him.
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