Top (Illogical, Baseless) Reasons Why We Know Floyd Mayweather Is A Drug Cheater:
1. Because he’s undefeated with a big, fat zero on his record. No other top fighter is unbeaten, therefore, Mayweather must using illegal drugs to elevate himself above his peers.
2. Because it’s on the record that his tender hands has been shot up with painkiller xylocaine. I mean, you get one needle in you it’s easy to take more injections, right? See link to Times Of London article in which Team Hatton beefed to the Nevada commission about Mayweather using xylocaine.
3. By deduction, because Mayweather comes rom Michigan. The New York Daily News sports investigative team reported in 2005, in its sweeping coverage of the BALCO steroid mess, that baseball slugger Mark McGwire—now an admitted drug cheater—that a Michigan man named Curtis Wenzlaff was the Cardinal superstar’s steoroid supplier. I know Michigan is a big state, I know Mayweather has been living in Las Vegas for years but it is possible that the two Michiganders met somewhere, like a gymanisum. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
4. Because Teddy Atlas spoke to man with a stake Mayweather’s career who told him the he had seen or someone told him they had seen an email from a Pacquiao representative which asked what would happen if Manny came up dirty on a drug test.
King of Swagger: Philthy Rich Mayweather (AP Photo)
5. Because Teddy Atlas read the same thin claim in Tiny Tim Smith’s New York Daily News column on Dec. 25 and Smith did not name or describe his source. What Smith and Atlas have in common (besides being good people) is that neither saw any such email and not sure there ever was one or more. Quick, let’s get someone to hack into the computers of Team Mayweather.
6. Here’s a juicy one, do you know that Mayweather has never DENIED using steroids? He’s never even been strapped to a lie detector and asked about such usage? How much more guilty can L’il Floyd be?
I realize this muddled attempt at reason and logic is ridiculous.
Mayweayther could be as clean as a whistle just like Megamanny could be. Or they BOTH could be cheating like so many top echelon athletes.
It will certainly be black eye for cycling if we find any Lance Armstrongs in our midst, won’t it?
I must agree with Atlas one thing, though.
The whole subject does make you wish for a hot, clean shower.
Atlas said that about internet boxing sites, really, as opposed to reputable newspapers. So let me close with a newspaper gaffe, a small one but obviously wrong.
Today’s New York Post, where I was gainfully employed for eight years, has a story reporting on the hot Senate fight, Coakley versus Brown, in Massachusetts. The story notes that ex-Red Sox pitcher Curet Schilling, a firm Republican, turned to thump the electoral tub for GOP hopeful Brown in the Land of the Kennedys.
The story said Schilling appeared at a Brown rally in “Wooster, about an hour’s drive from Boston.”
Unless they’ve suddenly renamed the state’s second largest city, it’s Worcester and not Wooster.
There’s a Wooster in Ohio, I believe, but none in Massachusetts.
Oh, wow, a newspaper made a mistake.
And Smitty and Theo became unwitting Pacquiao character assasins based on ALLEGED email(s) that they never saw. How simple woud it have been for either or both to demand that their “source” redact the ID of the sender so as to keep that person anonymous? Did they ask that such a redacted email be sent to them, I wonder like you wonder.
Using sources, as seen here in the LA Times reference to what looks like a Lem Satterfield AOL Fanhouse “scoop” on Mayweather-Mosley happening on May , is part and parcel of reporting. We may have never seen Watergate unravel without the loose lips of “Deep Throat.”
Like I say, I respect both of them, Smith as a reporter-columnist and Atlas as a boxing trainer who cannot be confused with a journalist. Atlas gets paid by ESPN for commentary not for being the Woowdard or Bernstein of the boxing beat. Howard Cosell was both “a personality” and, when he wanted to be, a journalist.
Btw, I can only applaud Atlas for his charitable works. Here’s the link to the foundation named after his father, a doctor who went into dangerous housing projects to help people who often could not pay for his services. This charity has given $5 million to those in dire need with few questions asked.
Despite the reaction in Pacland, I see nothing malicious in the column written by Smith or the on air remarks of Atlas.
But mistakes were made here, take it from a guy who makes plenty.
I’m feeling grimy. Have I just done to Mayweather what was wrongfully done to Pacman?
Let’s jump in the shower again.
