Manny Pacquiao drops other shoe on Floyd Mayweather, it's a combat boot -- Examiner

By Michael Marley, Examiner.com

Manny Pacquiao just dropped the other shoe...and it turned out to be a combat boot.

A combat boot which he has aimed squarely at the posterior of his next fight target, Floyd Mayweather Jr.

To put it another way, Pacquiao has given Mayweather the needle.

(Music suddenly playing in the mind of Mayweather and his legion of Flomenters across the globe can only be "You Dropped A Bomb On Me," as sung by The Gap Band.)

Now, the Congressmanny from the wretchedly poor province of Sarangani says, taking a thimble size amount of blood from one of his arms is no big deal.

Pacman, who was shooting a TV commercial in Manila (Ginebra), spoke to Manila Bulletin fight scribe Nick Giongco and what he told the G Man is reverberating throughout the boxing world.

Instead of seeking a halfway, in between 24 days before and 14 random blood testing date, Pacquiao has trumped the Mayweather camp demands by signing off on the fortnight, meaning two weeks before the bout, date.

Immediate reaction from the Golden Boys and the rest of the Mayweather team?

Well, the silence is deafening. Pacquiao has cleverly trumped his foes in a brilliant gambit which brings even those who believed or harbored suspicions of his being a drug cheater over to his side.

Anyone who felt Pacquiao was, as rapper Chamillionaire puts it, "riding dirty" just got a screaming wakeup call.

Now the Pinoy Idol comes off as shiny and antiseptic as Mister Clean and puts Team Mayweather on the defensive simultaneously.

This is from Giongco's dispatch:

“As long as they’re not getting a large amount of blood, I am willing to give out blood as close to two weeks before the fight,” Pacquiao told the Bulletin late Wednesday night during a lull in shooting a Ginebra commercial in Makati.

Pacquiao said he will not hesitate to be tested provided that the amount to be taken would be minimal, noted the 31-year-old fighter, gesturing with his pointer and index fingers a measurement equivalent to a short syringe.

Pacquiao narrated the incident during the first fight with Erik Morales in March 2005 when a large amount was taken from him on the eve of the fight that he eventually lost by unanimous decision.

“I felt very weak after they got the blood,” said Pacquiao.

On the other side of the world, meaning New York, I enjoedy a hastily arranged dinner with brothers from the Fistic Fraternity.

I dined with crackerjack journo Mike Woods (Sweetscience.com), Hall Of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward and the Double Trouble Teenaged Twins, precocious 16 year olds Jared and Jeff Bonas.

The Kronk Godfather is going to unleash the two middleweights, take them professional, as soon as they turn 17 which one does 14 minutes before the other. Don't ask me which is which as I told you they are twins and I'm still sorthing them out.

'The brothers fight in a pro style already," the newly hired trainer of former Pacman foe Miguel Cotto said. "No sense of them hanging around fighting for trophies and badges."

After dinner, strolling back to Steward's hotel, we bumped into former heavyweight contender Renaldo "Mister" Snipes.

There will be no charity dinners held for the Yonkers bruiser who nearly decapitated champ Larry Holmes. Snipes moves with and schmoozes with some business world high rollers.

Snipes thinks Mayweather is too much for Pacman, a notion I vainly tried to disabuse the thoughtful ex-fighter of.

But, then again, at the time we were unaware that willing warrior Pacquiao had dropped the other shoe...

That shoe that turns out to be a heavy-soled combat boot.

Your name doesn't have to be Ben Dover to figure that much out.

(mlcmarley@aol.com)

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