Mayweather breaks his silence...

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Arum & Koncz have slammed Mayweather's statement, although haven't gone as far as to deny it.

Team Pacquiao, Arum Slam Mayweather's 14-day Story - Boxing News

The choice quotes:

Arum

"after the horses leave the barn and they rejected Manny's 24 days offer he now comes up with 14 days which is totally unacceptable"

"this is not a swap thing among a bunch of kids"

"we agreed to go to 24 days before the fight for a blood test but he rejected it and that's it. It's over"

Most interestingly Arum feels that because 'the fans' are blaming Mayweather for the collapse of the fight, he's trying to turn it around, but it's not working

Koncz

sees PBF's statement as "both humorous and ludicrous all in one"

has been told my drug experts that PEDs "will be in your blood for 40 days before the fight or the day after the fight. Whatever is there is there for that period. So what the hell does 14 days have to do with it? Nothing other than to irritate Manny, knowing that he has whatever, a fear or superstition of extracting blood less than 30 days"

Sorry, had to highlight that last bit

His superstition only kicks in 30 days before a fight

Seriously, every time I think that there's nothing Arum & Team Pacquiao can do to make themselves look more stupid, there they go and confound expectations again

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Arum

"after the horses leave the barn and they rejected Manny's 24 days offer he now comes up with 14 days which is totally unacceptable"

"this is not a swap thing among a bunch of kids"

"we agreed to go to 24 days before the fight for a blood test but he rejected it and that's it. It's over"

Most interestingly Arum feels that because 'the fans' are blaming Mayweather for the collapse of the fight, he's trying to turn it around, but it's not working

Koncz

sees PBF's statement as "both humorous and ludicrous all in one"

has been told my drug experts that PEDs "will be in your blood for 40 days before the fight or the day after the fight. Whatever is there is there for that period. So what the hell does 14 days have to do with it? Nothing other than to irritate Manny, knowing that he has whatever, a fear or superstition of extracting blood less than 30 days"

Here's Freddie Roach before Christmas :

"I will not let my fighter take a blood test the day before a fight," Roach said. "If they give me a five-day window or something like that I have no problem with it."

Manny Pacquiao's blood test refusal puts Floyd Mayweather Jr fight at risk | Sport | guardian.co.uk

It's amazing how his own trainer didn't know about the 30 day superstition.


Here's another good quote from Koncz :

"[Experts told us that any PEDs] will be in your blood 40 days before the fight or the day after the fight. Whatever is there is there for that time period. So what the hell does 14 days have to do with it? Nothing other than to irritate Manny knowing that he has whatever, a fear or a superstition of extracting blood less than 30 days."

This quote and a lot of what Arum has had to say over the past couple of weeks (blood tests are meaningless, our experts claim urine tests are better etc.) is basically for domestic Phillipine consumption. It's just damage limitation for Pacneedle's reputation back home as they can trust the domestic media not to ask too many questions and expose the bs. I bet Arum is fucking furious about this whole mess though.