ESPN's Dan Rafael quoted Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer as saying "If we can't get this done we must be idiots"
If you have been paying attention to the 8countnews.com podcast you would have heard regular guest Floyd Mayweather Sr. calling out Manny Pacquiao more than once on the show. From as far back as August 2009 Floyd has been claiming that Pacquiao has been using some type of performance enhancing drugs. Allegations that have come to a head and subsequently halted plans of this Mega Fight.
It has to make you wonder why just recently has this issue come to the surface. Sr. has been saying it for months if not for years. Sr. has always been one of our favorite guests on the show. He has some great boxing in-site and also keeps fans amused with his poetry. However, the bottom line is that not many people take this guy all too seriously. Perhaps the one unlikely person to take him seriously is his own son who was estranged from his father for some time. Now that the two have seemingly repaired the father and son bond; has Floyd actually taken some advise from his father? And believed it?
During an interview on ESPN's Friday Night Fights , Teddy Atlas while insisting that he thinks that Pacquiao is in no way dirty spoke of Emails that the Mayweather camp apparently received from the Pacquiao camp regarding the implications of testing positive for steroids.
"Sources told me that people in the Pacquiao camp sent a couple of e-mails to the Mayweather camp a few weeks ago, about 2-3 weeks ago," Atlas said.
"The first e-mail was 'What would the penalty be if our guy tested positive?' And the second e-mail was 'If he does test positive, could we keep this a secret for the benefit of boxing? Now, if that's true, again, that doesn't prove anything definitively, but you have to wonder why those questions were being asked." Atlas went on to say that he got this information from a trusted source.
If Emails of that nature were flying from the Pacquiao camp then I would have to include the Pacquiao camp in that bunch of idiots that Schaefer was talking about. From my experience with the Pacquiao camp it seems unlikely that those questions were really asked via E-mail. Seems like a question you should ask your own advisers and not your opponents team.
It is obvious that the fans still really want this fight, even now that the Clottey fight has been written. Now we can only wait and most likley revisit the possibility of this mega-fight another time.
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