HOLLYWOOD, California – From thirty to twenty four days testing windows for random blood draws, Team Mayweather said they’d be agreeable to drug testing 14 days before the fight, which now Manny Pacquiao says ‘okay’, at least according to news report by Nick Giongco via Manila Bulletin.
As of this writing, all the boxing writers and fans can do is circumvent with speculations whatever takes place at the negotiation table as to the specific deals between Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank and Richard Schaefer, who represents Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in the last failed negotiation that ended down with the 14 days window for random blood testing which Pacquiao rejected.
Arum, 78, “called off” the talk in the early of January between the camps of Mayweather and Pacquiao amid in what seems to be an uncompromising and “endless” demand of the Mayweather camp relative to blood testing as said.
“And I bet you even if his demands are met, he will have to spotlight, again and again, another set of excuses. It’s pathetic his demands are endless. He wakes up with a new demand each day after every nightmare, ” said Arum during his last attempt to finalize the purported contract. Mayweather-Pacquiao negotiation, as aborted for March 13, 2010 fight schedule, which location has to be agreed upon by both parties as well, is on moratorium until an official resumption is called on for by both parties.
Unconfirmed report has it that behind the press negotiation may have started already upon the arrival of Arum in the U. S. from the Philippines where he had a courtesy visit in Sarangani, Philippines to support the candidacy of Pacquiao for the 15th Congress in the last May 10 elections.
Arum has been upbeat lately about resuming negotiation as Pacquiao got an ‘OK’ from his mother, Mommy D., for one more fight.
Pacquiao declares he has ‘one more fight left in him’.
Note: Video review on Mayweather, Jr. a year ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwNt7wv_RN8 Video review on Mayweather, Jr. with ESPN Kenny a year ago.
