If it was only Manny Pacquiao – and not Shane Mosley – who struck with that thunderbolt punch that buckled Floyd Mayweather’s knees over the weekend in Las Vegas, the fight would have been over moments later.
Talking to American scribe Mike Marley, who is down with Pacquiao in General Santos City to cover the elections, the Filipino pound-for-pound king told the former Don King PR man that the outcome would have been different.
“If I can hit Mayweather like that, I will finish him off. I would continue the attack in a way that Mosley did not,” said Pacquiao, referring to the Mosley right hand that turned Mayweather’s legs into jelly.
Mayweather weathered the second-round storm and cruised to a lopsided win over Mosley, a victory that only put pressure on the camps of the two fighters – Pacquiao and Mayweather – to reach a compromise agreement.
Pacquiao lawyer Jeng Gacal believes a deal will eventually be reached because there is no sensible thing to do but to pit the two punchers – the former holder of the mythical title and the current holder – against each other in a super fight likely to take place late in the year.
Gacal reiterated that Pacquiao remains adamant about the Olympic-style testing that Mayweather is imposing for the fight to take place.
“Manny will fight under commission rules,” said Gacal.
And what if the commission mandates that Pacquiao undergo such random drug and urine tests?
“Then, Manny will undergo such tests,” said Gacal.
Boxing commissions all over the US don’t require random drug and urine testing, believing that the tests they conduct are more than enough to determine if a fighter is taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Source: mb.com.ph
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