Roach goes on to say that he hopes it will be Mosley who Pacquiao faces, because it will be an exciting bout for boxing fans to see. It’s also a fight that Pacquiao would have a better chance at winning, Roach doesn’t say. The one problem that will prevent the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight from taking place is the egos involved. Pacquiao’s side added a $10 million dollar penalty to the contract for every pound that either fighter came in over the fight weight.
Mayweather agreed to it. This was something that would hurt Mayweather, the bigger fighter, more than it would Pacquiao. But when Mayweather wanted to have Olympic style random blood testing to take place, then all of a sudden there was a problem because Pacquiao didn’t feel comfortable having his blood tested close to the fight.
Roach took way of looking at it, thinking that Mayweather was trying to push Pacquiao and him around by asking for the blood testing. Mayweather didn’t appear to be doing this out of gamesmanship or for wanting to gain some kind of unfair advantage over Pacquiao. He just had some real concerns about Pacquiao and wanted to make sure that he was fighting a drug free fighter. It’s hard to find any fault with Mayweather for wanting that. Roach seems to have twisted things in his head, and sees it as a power struggle with Mayweather.
Roach says that they’re going to try and make the fight with Mayweather. However, in the next breath Roach says “Any commission test, and sanctioning body test, we’ll do. But we will not do private testing with a company that Floyd hires. It’s not going to happen.” What this means then, if Roach is serious about what he’s saying, is that Pacquiao and his team will abide by what the World Boxing Organization and the Athletic Commission [likely the Texas Athletic Commission] says about what kinds of testing that should be done for the fight.
In other words, there won’t be any random blood testing done for a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao. The reason is because neither Texas, the WBO nor the California Athletic Commission requires blood testing for boxers. All they test for is urine, and not blood. What this means is that unless Mayweather accepts what the Athletic and WBO mandate for testing, there won’t be a fight.
Last time out, Pacquiao was willing to take limited blood tests, but not the random blood testing that Mayweather wanted. Pacquiao was willing to have his blood tested up until 24 days before the fight. This time, it looks like there won’t be any blood testing unless Pacquiao agrees to it, and it’s not sounding like he will or if the WBO or Athletic Commissions agree to it.
They probably won’t. The weird thing is, Mayweather agreed to the $10 million dollar penalty, and didn’t see it as being pushed around, even though if he wanted to he could have twisted things in his head and seen it that way. Basically, it was a move that would mess Mayweather potentially because he had problems making weight in his last fight against Juan Manuel Marquez last September.
If Roach knows what he’s talking about and is speaking for Pacquiao, then it looks like there won’t be a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight in the future. Pacquiao can always fight Mosley, the probable loser in the Mayweather-Mosley fight. After all, Pacquiao is fighting Joshua Clottey on Saturday night, and he was beaten in his last fight against Miguel Cotto. Pacquiao would then be fighting someone who had recently beaten, which is pretty much what he’s been doing for the past two years in fights against Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Cotto.
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