The Non-Fight

SPECIAL REPORT "The Non-Fight"
BY STEPHEN S. JOHNSON

(IB-DECEMBER 28, 2009) It's looking more and more as if the highly anticipated show-down between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. will not happen...at least not on March 13th of 2010.

The insistance of Olympic style blood testing by Mayweather, Jr. and Golden Boy Productions have effectively underminded the fight being held on the March 13th of 2010 date.

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum had given a Monday, December 28th deadline for Mayweather, Jr. and Golden Boy Productions to accept the counter offer of letting the NSAC (Nevada State Athletic Commission) decide what form of testing would be used or the fight would be called off.

GBP CEO Richard Schaefer has said there would be absolutely no other way the fight will happen unless Pacquiao allows random testing of his blood right up to the fight... (more)