Manny Pacquiao

The Manny Pacquiao VS. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. fight has been cancelled due to a breakdown of negotiations over blood testing disputes. Bob Arum and Pacquiao have turned down the USADA excessive blood testing requirement laid down by the Mayweather camp, putting a damper in the...read more  

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Promoter Bob Arum declared the megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. dead Thursday, though efforts continued to find a compromise to a dispute over blood testing.  

WBO World Welterweight champion and IBO and Ring Magazine Light Welterweight titlist Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao was scheduled to fight undefeated "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather, Jr. on March 13 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Predictably, because boxing has historically relished disappointing its fans, the glamorous matchup is now in jeopardy because Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs) has refused to comply with Mayweather's request to undergo Olympic style...  

What looked to be the best move boxing could have made appeared in doubt Thursday when Top Rank president Bob Arum declared the March 13 superfight between WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao and pound-for-pound rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. was ...  

NEW YORK: The WBO welterweight title bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao next March will not go ahead due to the American’s demands for Olympic-style dope testing procedures, promoter Bob Arum said on Wednesday.  

Promoter Bob Arum has reported that the proposed fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao has been called off. David Mayo of the Grand Rapids Press also reported today that the fight has been waved off by Mayweather's insistence on blood testing as opposed to urine testing for the fight. Mayweather was adamant about wanting to put Pacquiao through hoops in order to prove he is drug-free. The Pacquiao camp acquiesed to random...  

LAS VEGAS — Promoter Bob Arum declared the megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. dead Thursday, though efforts continued to find a compromise to a dispute over blood testing. "It's over," Arum said. "O-V-E-R." Arum had set a Thursday deadline for an agreement on testing, the only issue not resolved for the planned March 13 fight. But with the Mayweather camp still insisting on using the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to...  

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada: Manny Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, says the Filipino hero's planned welterweight mega-fight against unbeaten US star Floyd Mayweather is off because the sides cannot agree on drug testing.  

Manny Pacquiao played this one all wrong. When confronted with a clause stating that he must submit to IOC standard drug testing of both urine and blood, he froze.  He got hit with a haymaker and went down for the count. His excuse for not wanting to get tested was that he was 'superstitious'.  Who is he kidding? Where was a spin doctor around when he needed one? First, he should have said he had never, ever tested positive for any kind of...  

PRESS RELEASE-LOS ANGELES, CA (December 22, 2009). . . The mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is now in jeopardy after Golden Boy Promotions, on behalf of Mayweather Promotions, learned today that Manny Pacquiao is refusing to comply with Olympic style drug testing as outlined and mandated by the United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA) and as requested by Mayweather’s management to ensure fair play and sportsmanship by...  

LAS VEGAS — The fate of Manny Pacquiao's planned March 13 megafight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. hangs in the balance over giving blood. Both sides traded jabs on Wednesday over Mayweather's insistence that the two submit to Olympic-style drug...  

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LAS VEGAS (AP) The proposed megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was thrown into jeopardy Tuesday with a demand by Mayweather's camp that both fighters be subjected to Olympic-type drug testing in the weeks leading up to the bout. Mayweather's manager said the fight would not go on if Pacquiao didn't agree to blood testing under standards followed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.