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Originally Posted by HajiShirazu
Surprised at the reaction in this thread. I am the most casual fan of boxing ever but am hyped over this fight. It seems there are a bunch of haters out there, unless my cynical view over this is true, that all normal boxing fights involve roiding up and mayweather wants this fight to be legit roid-free just because he is way bigger and doesn't think he can win otherwise.
I know it seems pretty bitch to insist on these non-standard testing regs but it comes off to me as if he legitimately wants a clean fight. It comes off much worse to say, "He doesn't want his blood taken before the fight because he thinks it will weaken him. Also he's afraid of needles." As somebody who doesn't know too much about these fighters, I kind of interpreted that as, "He plans on taking steroids during training that can't be found in urine testing, and would hate to get caught." But then he says he will agree to be tested after the fight. I guess I'm not enough of a ped expert to know if he can gain an advantage through roiding/drugging up and then somehow masking it right before/during/after the fight in a way he couldn't manage with a prefight test.
Point A: Floyd's never asked for this before.
Point B: Manny's never failed a test. Supposedly it's suspicious how he moved up in weight, even though Floyd moved up from the exact same age/weight even higher and has been just as dominant.
Floyd is trying to rattle Manny's mind. He knows Manny is superstitious about this body stuff, like most 2nd/3rd world fighters are. Look how many fighters drink their own piss FFS. Manny has agreed to urine 24 hours/day for months, blood 3 months before, blood 30 days out and blood immediately after the fight. That is FAR beyond what any state athletic commission in the country requires.
Manny's ONLY stipulation is that he does not want blood drawn in the final weeks leading up to the fight, when the most crucial periods of training are going on. This is a legit request.
If Floyd refuses to take the fight for this reason, it's a huge bitch move and he'll forever shout about how Manny is on roids despite Manny never failing a test ever.