Floyd Mayweather Jr. swore on a rick of boxing gloves this quondam week that, yes, he really, really, REALLY wants to against Manny Pacquiao. It was flash boxing fans to each have been waiting to hear. But, at the same time, it should also give them pause.
In reality, we’re no closer now to a Pacquiao-Mayweather climax than we’ve ever been. Mayweather’s words came during a promotional spell for his Sept. 17 match against Victor Ortiz. In New York and again in Los Angeles, a sizeable apportionment of the questions directed at Mayweather centered on his plans to free-for-all boxing’s No. 1 star, not Ortiz.
"Do I want to altercate Pacquiao? Absolutely," Mayweather said. "I want to zest the best they got out there, not just him, the best they got out there. "And if he’s on the slant as one of the best guys, then absolutely." But in the next breath, Mayweather uttered the words take a stand against fans don’t want to hear. "Pacquiao’s next," Mayweather said, "as great as he agrees to the (Olympic-style drug) testing. Victor Ortiz has agreed to do it. So did (May 2010 foe) Shane Mosley. "I’m also testing. It’ll show that boxing is clean.
" Mayweather in the one-time has suggested Pacquiao has enchanted about enhancing drugs. It’s extended been the sticking projection between the two and the percipience the two have blight boxed around the richest dissent in boxing representation for a brace of years now. Apparently, it still is.
And it’s the case fans shouldn’t get too worked up over anything Mayweather says, or the reality that he’s ending a 16-month layoff to fighting Ortiz. The tiff with Ortiz should be a virtuous one. Ortiz is coming off a career-defining mastery over Andre Berto that made him the WBC welterweight champion. Ortiz got off the canvas twice to realize a 12-round unanimous decision.
Despite the layoff, Mayweather should rhythm Ortiz. Say what you will about Mayweather, the guy’s a queer of nature. He possesses abilities that are unequalled in the distraction of boxing today. No one beats Father Time, but Mayweather has given no foreshadowing his skills have begun to fade.
That brings us back to the testee of Pacquiao, who has a fixture with Juan Manuel Marquez in November. Providing Pacquiao wins that – and he should – all of the acclaim once against will be focused on Pacquiao-Mayweather. And the same long-lived stumbling barrier – random, prefight blood tests. "I never once said Manny Pacquaio is cheating," Mayweather said after week. "I’m not attractive anything away from him.
All I said is we should prove the tests. If you want to mould me, I want you to procure it. Just choose the test." The quandary has been the rule for charming such a test.
A test, by the way, that is not required by any federal boxing commissions. Mayweather wants the prove conducted straighten out up until the fight. Pacquaio has only agreed to blood and urine testing at confident times. Until that culmination can be resolved, there will be no megafight.
In other words, nothing has changed. We’re extremely back at tense one, with falsely nowhere to go. Each fighter has painted himself into a corner on this. Someone is prevailing to have to give in. Mayweather’s continuing admissible issues may dethrone him to the negotiating plateau eventually. But even that’s not a steadfast bet.
At this point, it still might read a miracle to get the disturbance we all want to see.
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