There has been a lot of confusion taking place in the sport of boxing over the recent failed drug tests coming from Lamont Peterson and Andre Berto. Each man was set for an intriguing rematch, Peterson with Amir Khan on May 19th and Berto with Victor Ortiz on June 23rd, but now those plans are up in smoke as people are still perplexed as to the motives that went behind both incidents. During a recent visit to On the Ropes Boxing Radio, Floyd Mayweather Sr. gave his reasoning for why Peterson, who was found to have been injected with testosterone pellets, decided to take the substance, claiming that he felt Amir Khan was likely on something as well.
Floyd Joy touched on a variety of subjects during the interview, including his son Floyd Jr.?s excellent brawl with Miguel Cotto, Mexican star Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez, the June 9th Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley fight, and much more.
Read below for a few highlights from Mayweather Sr?.
His thoughts on Tim Bradley? ?There?s a lot of things I don?t see with him. Some things I do see with him. But I?m telling you this right here! The way you saw Pacquiao before, I don?t think you?re going to see the same Pacquiao again like that. The way he fought Marquez, I don?t think you?re going to catch him like that again. No. It?s not going down like that again. I don?t think so. He ain?t going to want to look bad like that again. So I don?t know what he?s going to do. I guess he?s going to come to his head and do something. I guess. I don?t know what he?s going to do, but I?m just telling you this right here. I don?t think Pacquiao is going to take another licking like that before the world so I guess he?s going to do whatever he?s got to do.?
Obstacles preventing a possible Mayweather-Pacquiao fight? ?Right there, there is a lot of things. I don?t think money is going to be a part of it. I don?t think money is going to hold it up. As a matter of fact I think they can figure that out anyway. If my son feels that he can beat Pacquiao I can see him fighting for the amount of money he?s going to get. Then like Bob Arum wins, then the winner takes the 10%. I feel the same way about Pacquiao. If he wanted to fight little Floyd, then whatever he was going to get he was going to get it, and then the winner takes the other big bulk, the 10%. But I don?t think it?s going to be about that. I think it?s going to be more about Pacquiao taking that test. It?s something that he won?t take right now, and I?m pretty sure little Floyd will fight the fight if Pacquiao takes the test and then the winner takes the 10% of it, the rest of it.?
Lamont Peterson?s motives? ?Well you know what? What Peterson did, Peterson did what he thought Amir Khan was going to do. That?s what he did. He did what he thought that Amir Khan was going to do. He was going to make sure that he was going to be in this fight or win this fight some kind of way. In my honest belief Peterson did it because he felt like that?s what Amir Khan was going to do.?
A possible fight between his son and Saul Alvarez? ?They?re the promoters, not me. They?re doing the promotions. So I?ll say this right here. I?ll be honest with you right now. They can?t put Canelo in with Floyd right now. Little Floyd would pick him apart. I?m telling you the truth on that. It?s not there. He?s not there yet. Little Floyd?s got way too much wisdom, and knowledge, and savageness. He?s a lot more savage than him right now and he knows the tricks of the trade. Little Floyd counterpunches very well. Right now I don?t see nothing he can do to beat little Floyd. Not right now, maybe two or three years down the line, but not right now!?
Thoughts on Floyd Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto? ?Didn?t nothing surprise me about the fight. I told you what the fight was going to be. It was going to be a tough fight, which it was. But I thought little Floyd beat him clearly, but it was a tough fight though. It wasn?t a fight a person would normally give Floyd. But like I said I just tallied everything up in my head with how I felt it would go, and it went just like I said it would go. But Cotto didn?t beat him! He beat Cotto, but Cotto gave him a fight. Cotto landed quite a few good punches. But Cotto also missed a whole lot of punches too, though. He scored with some punches but he missed a whole lot of punches, too. I think at the end of the day little Floyd pulled it out. He hit him with some real good uppercuts and he hit him with some straight right hands. I think that at times Cotto he was backing up and letting little Floyd take charge. Like I said I think little Floyd won the fight.?
