Blood feud: Mayweather, Pacquiao may both cheat (smartly)

NY Boxing Examiner | Michael Marley

(Warning: There are absolutely zero jokes, puns or even Marley sarcasm in this column. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.)

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has accomplished one despicable thing with this late in the negotiations demand for random drug testing for Manny Pacquiao.

By agreeing to subject himself to random testing, Mayweather portrays himself as the clean guy, the surely drug free guy.

Simultaneously, if Manny doesn’t roll over to his demands, Pacman is portrayed as the athlete who must have something to hide, a highly suspected drug cheater whose glorious victories over Oscar de la Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto must be viewed with some skepticism as to their honesty.

Further, even if Pacquiao can upset the odds by handing Mayweather his first pro ring defeat, there will be a drug cloud of suspicion hanging over him if he continues to refuse the random testing.

Frankly, I don’t know if Megamanny cheats and neither do you or anyone named Mayweather, Schaefer or Haymon.

Ditto for Mayweather.

The thought that occurs that both might be cheating, as so many other world class jocks have done and are doing, by using something like HGH which cannot be detected by either bloor or urine samples.

If they were, would either gain an advantage over the other? I’ll leave that you chemists out there in Pacland and Mayweatherville.

If either or both are using something undetectable, the secret will stay secret, I suppose.

Now, with all this money in the $30 million range for both camps, I want to see Manny and Floyd do the sensible thing, the businesslike thing.

Floyd needs to drop this 11th hour demand and he and Manny need to put their John Hancocks on the contracts.

Then we can look forward to a good, clean (as far as we will ever know) fight come March 13.

Given human nature and their competitive fires, I’d put my money on both fighters doing whatever they can do (without getting caught) to win.

Those competitive fires are a big reason of how they reached the mountaintop where they are today.
There’s nothing sacrosanct or holier than thou about either boxer.

Anyone who thinks otherwise has his head stuck in sand a long way from the land of common sense.

Source: Examiner.com