When I was a youngster every thing was black and white, you were on one side or another and I thought that's how life was, but its not is it, every thing has a swerve to it and the higher up you go the more people's morals are up for grabs, with large sums of cash on offer if you do so, it is a damm shame but that's the way it is and after the debacle with Manny n Floyd not getting it on that's another nail in the coffin for boxing, if you ask me, this whole scenario should not have been made public, it didn't have to be this way, this wouldn't of been in the public eye twenty years ago, there would of been a press release stating terms offered are not agreeable and boxing would not have been tarnished like it has over this latest drug scandal.
As for who is to blame for the fight not happening I blame the commissions, the promoters and then the training teams. The commissions make the rules and with drug testing only being a urine one, that is twenty years behind the times, random blood tests are the only way forward, all title fights should have random blood testing. The promoters are wrong to leak misinformation and lies to the press and finally the training teams who know there fighters are on Peds and don't say a thing, to me Peds are just as bad as Margos loaded wraps.
Now I look back on some great fighters and think what where they taking, its tarnished every fighter to a greater or lesser degree.