Pac having blood taken 20 days before the Clottey fight..

[InTheNeutralCorner]

The "weaken me" excuse is absurd as anyone who has taken a blood test will tell you. A 14 day window was plenty of time before the fight too and Manny turned it down and here he is once again giving blood, but this time 20 days out. The guy is full of crap. Nothing he says ever seems to add up. Politics might well be the job for him.

It may be absurd to a number of people but there are some who truly believe it.

Here's a video from an interview of Manny taken sometime in 2005 after the first Erik Morales fight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_97MccjZwV4

But to be fair, in regards to the video, he did lose that fight. What do you expect him to say?

Pacquiao & his people have a history of relying on excuses after they don't get the outcome they wanted. Remember the "wrong kind of socks" fiasco after the first JMM fight?

I'm not saying it didn't make him weak & that was the reason he lost the fight to Morales. I'm just raising the question would he have said all this if he had won that fight? Would the blood tests have been an issue if he had won?

Your statement implies the possibility that it may have made him weak. That is what I was trying to say in this forum all along, that there are a lot of speculations and possibilities with regards to the Pacquiao-Mayweather fiasco nor in any other fights. As boxing fans, we owe it to the boxers to at least give them the benefit of the doubt in the absence of credible evidence. They put their lives at risk for our entertainment. (I will jump ahead of myself and comment on those thinking that they get paid millions anyway. A select few of them do but they deserved it. However, they all started from the bottom.).

This forum will be a harmonious place if we just all agree. But then again, it will also make it boring.

I rest my case.