Has Pacquiao's Reputation been Damaged Forever?

[eagle]

Picked by most well known boxing critics (Ring Mag, ESPN, HBO) as Fighter Of The Decade. Yea right, "damaged reputation" my ass.

Floyd needs to put up or STFU. He's got to stop derailing the negotiation. Stop running like a lil' b1tch Floyd.

Another post from a Pactard with no logic whatsoever. So because he was named fighter of the decade it means his reputation amonst fans cant be damaged due to not taking these tests?

Floyd needs to put up or STFU? Floyd has agreed to all the terms, Pac hasnt so how do you come to the conclusion that the fight not going ahead is down to PBF? Then u call Floyd a lil bitch when Manny is claiming to be so scared of blood tests that he is willing to give up $40,000,000. That is possibly the most pathetic things i have ever heard.

[milmascaras1]

15rounder,

no, maybe the fight hasn't been signed yet only because pacquiao is being a wussy while mayweather jr., short of signing, has agreed to every one of pacroids demands. and yes, i do think things out before i post.

[Fenster]

Without doubt. Pac made himself look guilty.. even if he's not.

Pac (Team Pac) could have called Team Mayweather's bluff by declaring they'd accept any drug test anywhere anytime. This would have never been a big deal. Team Mayweather would have looked silly, looked like they didn't want the fight, instead of Pac looking like he doesn't want to be caught cheating.

Whether he's clean or not there will always be people saying he's a drug cheat. And he only has himself (his team) to blame.

[eagle]

I think as i said before it has got to a point where unless Pac takes the tests and performs as good or better then the past then his reputation will be tarnished forever

[Mar]

...people have short memories. Especially in this case where most aren't even pac fans, they just back anyone floyd fights. This will die off as part of the hype long as he takes and passes the tests. After this fight happens and it will, no one will really even care about this stuff. People will be to busy building up the next person that will eventually loose to floyd as well.

[Kel]

...people have short memories. Especially in this case where most aren't even pac fans, they just back anyone floyd fights. This will die off as part of the hype long as he takes and passes the tests. After this fight happens and it will, no one will really even care about this stuff. People will be to busy building up the next person that will eventually loose to floyd as well.

Well you are wrong there, I hate Floyd to bits but I ain't defending Manny at all.

[Rantcatrat]

I think if he takes the random tests, and still performs as well as he ever did then his reputation will damaged minimally. The trouble now is that if he akes the tests and looks lethargic and weak ppl will say its cos he wasnt on drugs and all along its been those making him look good. On the otherhand if he refuses the random tests and looks great or wins people will think it was all cos of drugs.

The only way to salvage his rep now is to pass the random tests and fight really well.

Right, which against Mayweather may be impossible. Thus, it is more than likely that his reputation is damaged forever.

I mean I guess if he fought Mosley at 147 and destroyed him in his next fight, his reputation may be bumped up a bit.

[jahmez]

I'm no longer a Manny Pacquiao fan. I'm not going to watch any of his fights ever again. I'm no longer a fan of contemporary boxing. I'm Going to watch the Ali-Frazier 2 DVD I just bought and KO my sparring partner on Monday.

[generalbulldog]

Speaking of calling bluffs or even upping the ante.

I remember reading an article about the random blood testing that Floyd wants and how Pacquiao should have countered. The article was stating that Pac's team should have been smarter than that and instead of refusing they should accept it, then make another demand that the weigh in should be on fight night within 1 hour of the fight.

The author of the article was basically stating that Pac's team should have came up with something savvy like that. But instead they lost this chess match battle. I thought an scenario like that was brilliant to counter the random blood testing.

[Kel]

If he does not take the test and fights someone else I think it's pretty clear he has been up to no good.

No one seems to be slagging off Roach as much as I thought, which I think is crazy, we all know how involved he is with Manny and he knows 100% the truth of all of this too.

[Kirkland Laing]

If he does not take the test and fights someone else I think it's pretty clear he has been up to no good.

No one seems to be slagging off Roach as much as I thought, which I think is crazy, we all know how involved he is with Manny and he knows 100% the truth of all of this too.

It's the conditioning guy who'll get all the blame if it ever emerges that Manny is juicing. He's even publicly said that Manny doesn't know what he gives him, so Manny can claim he had nothing to do with it if it does ever become public knowledge. That's exactly how a few of the baseball cheats tried to get out of it when they got caught. "I thought he was injecting me in the arse with Vitamin B12", that sort of thing.

[jahmez]

Speaking of calling bluffs or even upping the ante.

I remember reading an article about the random blood testing that Floyd wants and how Pacquiao should have countered. The article was stating that Pac's team should have been smarter than that and instead of refusing they should accept it, then make another demand that the weigh in should be on fight night within 1 hour of the fight.

The author of the article was basically stating that Pac's team should have came up with something savvy like that. But instead they lost this chess match battle. I thought an scenario like that was brilliant to counter the random blood testing.

I'm a salesman and leaving your best punch till last is the way to go. I really thought this was what was going to happen. Guess we've got more sense than a bunch of millionaire fuckwits.

[holmcall]

Only on some of the other on-line sites that have allowed some of the very worse racism, hate, and innuendos one can possibly imagine. It alamost makes me feel ashamed to be a fight fan--almost.

[generalbulldog]

Only on some of the other on-line sites that have allowed some of the very worse racism, hate, and innuendos one can possibly imagine. It alamost makes me feel ashamed to be a fight fan--almost.

Those fans are just messing around. It's like when B-Hop said no white guy can beat him. Just some shit talking that's all.

[josef4334]

i think its damaged forever. regardless if he takes a test and passes it people will still question him. maybe he paid off whoever tested him so hed come out clean. when somebody accuses you of anything, whatever you do, it will never disappear. look at iraq. bush and the rest of the western world said its confirmed there is WMD in iraq.. well you know the rest is history.