Resumes - Mayweather vs Pacquiao

[InTheNeutralCorner]

RESPONSE TO JJson: (sorry, I don't seem to be able to put your quotes in their individual boxes)

First of all, can you make your English simpler? I haven't read any posters here with a more heavy use of the English language than you. We are in a boxing forum to discuss boxing (or non-boxing) issues, and we're not here to practice our English writing skills. But I do commend you for your excellent writing skills (although we may disagree with the content).

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He is saying that Floyd Mayweather is wrong to seek a level playing field in this competition, and should just risk his health and livlihood to make forty million dollars. The anti-intellectualism that inundate this kind of reasoning is livid. Basic commonsense and objective reasoning would take examination of this point to a contemplation of the value of forty million dollars in exchange for ones mental equilibrium, or even one's life. This writer seem to be in a time warp extending back centuries, when slaves were put to fight each other and the concerns over their health was minimal to the concerns for the audience to enjoy the bloody and brutal show. This is how he comes off to me, and I am sure also to many others.

What the author seems to be implying is why ask for the blood test NOW when the only evidence he has is the suspicion of his dad. And Floyd seems to be concerned now with the level of the playing field. Was he concerned with that when he fought Marquez? He already had a lot of advantage over Marquez and yet he still did not seem to have any intention in complying with the agreed weight. Floyd will try to get all the advantage if he can dictate the terms & I don't see anything wrong with that. A smart boxer will be doing that. Unfortunately for him, he was supposed to face Pacquiao who many considers as of equal stature to him (some would even say as above Floyd considering that Pac is the current P4P) and to whom he cannot impose his terms.

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Floyd said that he could beat Manny. He did not say that he could beat Manny on steriods. What level of miscomprehension is so pervasive in the mindset of this analyst, that he is unable to parse the difference between these two things? Manny also said he could beat Floyd, so why should he blame Floyd more for introducing the condition, than Manny for not taking it? Either way the fight would have been made.

How could Floyd know how Manny is like on steroids? So, are you implying that Floyd thinks that Manny was indeed on steroids during his previous bouts & that he does not think that he can beat that Manny?

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Nothing he puts out in that piece impeaches my argument that our experience with the deaths and permanent brain damage suffered by some fighters should have made us, logically, very receptive to the notion of olympic style drug testing. This writer, it would appear, belong to the group of people I identify as the Floyd Haters. Their visceral yearning to see him get beat down has conditioned a kind of madness in their cognitive output. I find it agonizingly incomprehensible that these people, who are probably paid to provide objective analysis on boxing and other sport related issues, and who are in effect opinion leaders of a sort, can be so concretely oriented in their reasonings. Floyd Mayweather's concern for his life and mental health after boxing supercedes his craving for money. I guess this sort of contributes cognitive dissonance to those who stereotype boxers as pugilist without a brain, and thus should have no concerns about their mental longevity. Please, I am not impressed by these kinds of experts.[/quote]

You are questioning the credibility of this writer even though he puts the blame on almost everyone who were involved in the negotiations. You accuse him of being a Floyd Hater for finding fault in Mayweather. Isn't he also a Pac Hater for that item that he wrote about Manny? His article appears to me as an unbias writing.
Which writer do you find credible? Can you show me an article that you consider as credible & unbias?

We all have our own prejudices. We may find that both Pacquiao & Mayweather are at fault for their fight not going through but we tend to find more fault in one over the other. For anyone to even think that either of them is clean & innocent in that megafight negotiation fiasco is the one showing his extreme bias and not making sense.