Quote Originally Posted by Manju View Post
I read this as PBF is only dropping the stipulation that the USADA administer the tests, while retaining the substance of his demand: olyimpic-style testing.

Thats a brilliant tactical move. It makes him appear eager to fight while calling Pacman's bluff...that the reason he doesn't want to sign is because the USADA is biased. All he's left with now is the far-fetched notion that taking blood will weaken him...an assertion unconvincing even if true, since presumably PBF would be subject to the same weakening.

I don't think Pacs on roids; I think he's clean and reacting emotionally to his character being questioned. PBF has played him. The great tactician set a trap designed to unnerve the enemy. After all, when the enemy is annoyed irritate him further, Sun Tzu informed us. PBF managed to make the clean but hapless Pac behave exactly how a dirty fighter would under the same circumstances. Brilliant psychological warfare.
It is a brilliant move. Pac has all but lost this fight. I at least gave Pac a decent chance, now I think he has no chance. Mayweather has proven he is mentally tougher than Pac and can get under his skin. And that's already half the battle won right there. And I agree, the Art of War is a brilliant military book.