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[Kirkland Laing]

Yeah definatley, and that is so wrong for Floyd to create that doubt without any evidence. It's criminal at best.

Manny could have flattened Floyd's ego and won a massive psychological victory by just agreeing to take the tests like it was no big deal when Floyd first asked him to. Manny would have been saying yeah, I'm clean and I'm going to beat you up clean like I beat Cotto and shove your steroid allegations down your throat. But he basically copied the actions of every steroid cheat that's been caught in America over the last decade. The outraged denials, the lawsuits, the deaperate avoidance of any kind of random testing even when there was a massive contract on the table waiting to be signed if he agreed to it.

Floyd didn't create the doubt, Manny did. There are other boxing people other than the Mayweathers who have questioned whether what Manny is doing is legitimate and those are just the ones who've gone public about it. And all Manny had to do to dispel the doubt (and earn up to $60 million in the process) was agree to take random tests. It was the perfect opportunity to shut the doubters up. Instead all his actions since being asked to take random testing (back in mid-November) are the actions of a guilty man.

Kirkland, you didn't really respond to my post or you did it in a round-about way. Are you saying that if Pacquiao had agreed to take the test for this one fight versus Mayweather and tested clean, win or lose, it would have erased any doubt you had of his using steroids in the past? How would testing clean for the fight with Mayweather change your opinion of his taking any drugs for the Cotto fight? He didn't undergo the tests that Mayweather is requiring of him in that fight as far as I know. Even if he tested clean as Mayweather demanded, maybe this was just a big pay day and it was worth it to not take drugs for one fight.

I totally agree, as I said in my post, that he should have taken the tests because we would have been able to watch Mayweather v. Pacquiao, but I don't see how it would dispel any doubt you had about Pacquiao taking drugs in the past.

The conclusion I am trying to draw is that Pac not taking the tests for this fight is odd because its not like testing clean for this fight means he didn't take drugs on his way up the weight class ladder when taking drugs would have been seemingly more beneficial. And this was his biggest pay day. He's been fighting at 145 now for a little while.

Let's say Pacquiao had been guilty of taking drugs in the past and had agreed to take the tests, even though logically it shouldn't clear his name, for yourself and other's like you, it may have cleared his name and in the process he could have made 20M. So, why not just test clean for this fight especially if he's been guilty in the past?

It'd be hard to judge against Mayweather because I'd expect him to lose to Mayweather either way. If he fought Mayweather and looked like a blown-up powderpuff version of a guy who'd lost to a shot featherweight five years ago it'd confirm to me he was a cheater. But if he was dinging Floyd with hard punches occasionally and had taken random tests I'd be inclined to believe the last five years had been legit. Ideally I'd like to see his next fight to be against JMM at 135 with daily tests so there's no way he could cheat. I'd love to see that.

The thing that gets me about Manny is the Cotto fight. I can accept he's got better as a boxer over the last few years. I can accept that DLH and Hatton were nowhere near their previous standards. But to beat Cotto up like that, to be hurting him nearly every time he landed, for an ex-106 pounder, no fucking way.

I think he won't fight Floyd without his roids because he'd get the shit beaten out of him for twelve rounds. He'd get beaten so badly that nobody would be talking about Manny the all time great and everybody would be talking about Floyd. The only chance he has in that fight is to be able to do a lot of damage when he does land, he needs the power that the PEDs give him. At this stage of his career he's going to make big money from all his fights, he does films etc. back home. He can afford to give up twenty or thirty mill and keep his reputation, losing to Floyd would shatter it.