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Oh god. Pac just Ko'd a top 3 welter, who'd previously beaten Mosely and Clottey, now all of a sudden Pac doesnt count as a welterweight. As i said, there is no other logical explanation for not taking a drug test other than the fact u have something to hide. Dont overcomplicate things.
Pac would have been a great fight for Floyd. I'm not overcomplicating things. Floyd could have challenged Shane but instead he fought Marquez. Now, Floyd could wait to challenge the winner of the Mosley/Berto fight yet again instead he is fighting a career lightweight who at 38 is definitely passed his prime. There is no way to rationalize that when you are the champion of the welterweight division. Should Mayweather be dropped from the list of top welterweights if he continues to not fight welterweights or worse yet fight lightweights at the welterweight limit?
So you would rather criticise a guy who you dont think fights tough enough opponents, than a guy who blatantly ducks a random drug test? Weird logic.
How about we criticize both?

I was criticizing Mayweather for his poor choice of opponents before the fiasco with Pacquiao and it looks like nothing has changed. Why won't he fight the fight everyone wants (Mosley) and show up Pacquiao at the same time? I don't see how there is any real choice here. What is Mayweather waiting for? He already took a warm-up fight.

The criticism on Pacquiao is not that he isn't fighting top quality welterweights. It is that he didn't take a test to make the biggest fight in boxing in the last twenty years happen. Shame on him for that. Until proven otherwise, I don't believe Pacquiao took performance enhancing drugs, but that is not to say I won't be proven otherwise. Pacquiao was and is not my favorite fighter although I am a fan.