the $10 million per lb clause was the compromise for the blood testing, just Pacquiao bitched out like a primadona
the $10 million per lb clause was the compromise for the blood testing, just Pacquiao bitched out like a primadona
compromise should be made for this fight to happen. floyd's demand of olympic style blood testing is not presently required by boxing commission. pacquiao offering a 24 days cutoff and testing right after the fight is already a compromise to what floyd demanded which is not really required for a boxing fight in the first place.
No not at all. That's like saying we'll drop the ten mill for every pound over (even though floyd does 147 easily) if you allow pac to take drugs. They are completely seperate issues.
Not once has floyd asked for the 10 million per pound over thing to be dropped. why? because he will come in inside the weight. Why does pac want the tests compromised? hmmm I wonder....
Last edited by Hornfinger; 05-06-2010 at 02:46 PM.
you're right, the penalty clause and blood testing are 2 separate issues as opposed to what was pointed out by another poster.
pacquiao offered a 24 days cutoff and testing right after the fight compromise since olympic style blood testing were not really required by boxing commissions for a boxing match in the first place. pacquiao already made a compromise by agreeing to blood testing with 24 days cutoff and testing right after the fight.
NSAC has it's own regulations and penalties for coming in overweight, so why does Pacquiao have to make up a $10 million per lb clause?
i think the blood tests should happen, and it should be the norm, not just in this fight
we can discuss the weight penalty clause in another thread since it's a completely separate issue from blood testing. these 2 are not related.
stringent blood testing might be the way to go in the future but its total implementation still needs to be studied thoroughly. some issues are;
- will it be for all boxers? (as what you suggested) including those undercard boxers
- who will shoulder the blood testing cost of roughly $20k per boxer per fight ($20k is larger than some boxers' purses)
until such time that boxing commissions already has the blood testing in place, we can contend ourselves with compromise testing.
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