Question: Pacquiao conceded to random tests up until 24 days b4 the fight...

[DaxxKahn]

so, just to be clear: Manny never agreed to random testing at all? He just agreed to a test 24 days before the fight, once after the fight, and once during the kick-off week?

Yes. He agreed to random urine testing, which doesn't detect a bunch of stuff, but not to random blood testing.

While I find the whole thing to be out nof control, it has gone from a test to random bllod test that is a bit unreasonable, as it is unreasonable for Pacquiaos camp to refuse even one test but...

To have the guy say yeah blood test me at your request as often as you want is not reasonable.....

[Kirkland Laing]

so, just to be clear: Manny never agreed to random testing at all? He just agreed to a test 24 days before the fight, once after the fight, and once during the kick-off week?

Yes. He agreed to random urine testing, which doesn't detect a bunch of stuff, but not to random blood testing.

While I find the whole thing to be out nof control, it has gone from a test to random bllod test that is a bit unreasonable, as it is unreasonable for Pacquiaos camp to refuse even one test but...

To have the guy say yeah blood test me at your request as often as you want is not reasonable.....

Floyd wanted random testing from when negotiations started in mid-November. And it's not like Manny is going to have to get tested as often as Floyd wants him to and it's not like they'd be using a rusty razor to take two pints at a time. The testing is done by people used to fitting in with athletes' schedules and is completely unobtrusive, it's a couple of minutes when they turn up at the gym. And a complete set of random tests over the period that they'd need to test for would require a total of 9 ml of blood, or less than one-third of one US fluid ounce. And both fighters would be subject to exactly the same number of tests at the same random times so it's not like it gives Floyd any advantage or Manny any disadvantage.