Floyd Maywether's Uncle: Manny Pacquiao's 'Got Something In Him' -- FanHouse

By Lem Satterfield, FanHouse

Roger Mayweather, the uncle and trainer of six-time titlist, Floyd Mayweather Jr., still insists that southpaw WBO welterweight (147) pounds and WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) champion Manny Pacquiao has "got something in him," an implication that the use of performance enhancing drugs is the reason the Filipino super star has retained power and won titles over eight different weight classes.

Roger Mayweather's comments were made during an interview with Chris Robinson of BoxingScene.com at Floyd Mayweather's gym near the fighter's Las Vegas home.

"The change I would make, you don't want to know," said Roger Mayweather. "Take that sh** out of his body and do it like a fighter is supposed to do. I know he got something in him. He knows it too. I know there is proof."

Negotiations for a bout between Mayweather and Pacquiao twice failed over the issue of Olympic style drug testing, which involves blood and urine, whereas boxing's current protocol involves only testing urine for illegal drugs.

"Because you know why? Any time a guy is getting 50 million dollars, and he don't want to take a test a couple days before the fight and then after the fight, he has to take another test," said Roger Mayweather.

"Why he don't want to take a test? I aint got to tell you what's wrong," said Roger Mayweather. "Anybody can see what's wrong with that. The way boxing works, you take a test a day before the fight and a day after the fight and that's it."

The 32-year-old Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 knockouts) takes a 13-bout winning streak that includes eight knockout s into his May 7, Showtime televised, Top Rank Promotions defense of his WBO belt against 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KOs), whom Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeated in May of 2010 during an HBO pay per televised unanimous decision.

For the first time in the sport's history, Mayweather and Mosley were subject to Olympic style drug testing of both blood and urine by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) before their bout.

In 2003, Mosley admitted to injecting the steroids, "the cream," and, "the clear," but says that he did so unknowingly after having been supplied the drugs by BALCO founder Victor Conte through a relationship with his former strength trainer, Daryl Hudson.

Mosley has dropped what had been an ongoing defamation suit against Conte, but Roger Mayweather, Floyd Mayweather, Floyd Mayweather Sr. and both Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya -- the CEO and President, respectively, of Golden Boy Promotions -- still are named in a suit by Pacquiao which seeks compensatory and punitive damages for defamation of character.

The lawsuit names the five of them for their alleged accusations of steroid use by Pacquiao.

"I heard they told Mosley 'You're going to have to take a test'. Let me as you something. If Mosley got to take a test, don't they both have to take a test? They both have to take a test. But here he is fighting a motherf**ker and he won't take the test himself," said Roger Mayweather.

"That's why him and my nephew never fought, because he didn't want to take the test himself. He said he would take a test five days out," said Roger Mayweather. "Who in the hell would do that? Aint no such thing as taking a test five days out. You can take the test the day before the fight, that's it. The rest of that stuff don't mean nothing.

Source: boxing.fanhouse.com