The thing is, boxing is so different on the inside than the media portrays it to be. The media know nothing - Boxers and their trainers lead one life for the press and then they have their real lives.
If you get in with some well connected trainers, boxers etc you really do hear some amazing stories about some big names and you just know they are not made up.
So I know what Teddy Atlas means when he says he has complete faith in his source if he knows his source well. It may even be a friend of his. However, I do agree that the emails are farfetched. The truth probably sits somewhere in the middle.
Very interesting - Everything points to Pacquiao using.
The exact same story was given to a respected New York sports journalist before Christmas :
According to a source familiar with the talks, Pacquiao's representatives asked what penalties Pacquiao would face if he tested dirty, and also if a dirty test result could be kept secret so that the integrity of the fight wouldn't be ruined in the public eye.
Floyd Mayweather's request for Manny Pacquiao to be drug tested is matter of boxing ethics
It really is hard to believe they'd put something like that in an email but I suppose stranger things have happened. If it's true then it's Golden Boy doing the leaking and giving the story to Teddy Atlas because they know he's on FNF and ESPN is a deliberate attempt to get people talking about it, to get it out into the mainstream. The way those emails would have the most impact is if they're made public as part of GBP's legal submission in reply to Manny's defamation suit. So if they do exist they're going to be made public sooner rather than later.
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