LAS VEGAS -- While his nephew Floyd Mayweather and brother Floyd Mayweather Sr. were raising suspicions Monday that Shane Mosley might have used performance-enhancing drugs much more recently than 2003, Roger Mayweather stopped short of that accusation.
He focused his steroid accusations on Manny Pacquiao, instead.
Floyd Mayweather fights Mosley in a highly anticipated welterweight clash Saturday, but that fight might have been Mayweather-Pacquiao, if not for balky negotiations related to blood testing in the aftermatch of the Mayweathers’ accusations that Pacquiao uses steroids.
Roger Mayweather, who trains his nephew, on Monday reiterated his claim that Mosley is a tougher opponent that Pacquiao because “Shane’s got more skills than Pacquiao.”
He also emphasized that Pacquiao “don’t want the fight no way” because of the refusal to allow blood testing later than 24 days prior to a proposed Mayweather-Pacquiao bout.
Roger Mayweather is named as one of the defendants in a defamation lawsuit Pacquiao subsequently filed, yet he again questioned why the Filipino star balked at random blood testing for the proposed fight, then later refused a counteroffer to allow testing on a set schedule cutting off no later than 14 days before the fight.
“If they want the fight, they'll take that test,” he said. “Why didn't he take that test? He ain't never took the test yet and never said he was going to take the test.
"It don't make no sense to anybody living and breathing. Anytime a guy is talking about he's going to get $100 million, $60 million, $70 million, and you don't want to take the test, something's got to be wrong with you. Everybody takes the test. Everybody that goes into that ring and is risking their life, they all take the test. What makes him privileged that he doesn't have to take the test?"
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Source: mlive.com
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