Jim Croce sang about “Time In A Bottle” when he wasn’t crooning about why you just don’t mess around with Jim.
You remember the latter, how you don’t expectorate into the wind, don’t pull the mask off the Lone Ranger or tug on Super Manny’s cape—oops, I mean Superman’s cape—and like that.
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather both fully complied in a prompt and timely manner with an “out of competition” urine test as ordered by Nevada State Athletic Commission Chair Pat Lundvall.
Keith Kizer, the lawyer who stepped into the huge shoes of Marvelous Marc Ratner (he went for big bucks at the UFC) as executive director of Americ’a best boxing board, told me New Year’s Eve that Pacman whizzed into a bottle in his hometown in General Santos City under the watchful eyes of a WADA approved doctor who flew in from Manila.
Kizer said Mayweather gave his urine sample in Las Vegas, his adopted hometown.
LA Examiner and rabble rouser Ricardo Lois is leading a “a Pauliecott” of a potential Malignaggi-Pacquiao bout.
Kizer said he believed that Pacman’s output would be sent to an IOC approved laboratory in Beijing while Mayweather’s may go to a similar facilty in Atlanta.
“Both samples will be handly exactly the same way,” Kizer said. “I would expect that it will be a week to 10 days from when the respective labs get the samples that we will get the results.”
In a slightly related note, I got a voice mail from a battered Bob Arum in which he referred to me as “White Buffalo.”
While heavyweight Francois Botha, a true African American, says I bestowed that moniker on him when we both ran with the Don King Pugilisitc Posse, I must remind Uncle Bob that throughout Pacland I am known as “White Gorilla.”
In Mayweatherville, my name is mud.
But it’s clean mud direct from Muddville and I’m willing to take any and all required tests.
Anyone want to bet against either Pacman or Money May coming up like Mr. Clean in these NSAC ordered tests.
Coming up dirty for drugs on such a test would result in fines and a suspension of a Nevada boxing license, I believe.
I don’t see Manny or Floyd having anything to worry about on that front.
I called rapper Chamillionaire and he told me neither Manny nor Floyd is getting caught riding dirty.
HAPPY NEW YORK TO BUFFALOES, GORILLAS, MAYWEATHER MANIACS AND THE ENTIRE PACQUIAO WORLDWIDE ARMY (PWA).
NEW YEAR’S EVE NOTE: The action has slowed on the Mayweather-Pacquiao negotiation front but there is a Three Stooges TV marathon on most American TV screens tonight.
I am not sure if the third stooge will be Curly or Shemp, you knuckleheads.
