
That Mayweather-Pacquiao fight was unable to be negotiated because Mayweather wanted Olympic style random blood tests to be taken in the weeks leading up to the fight. Pacquiao wasn’t comfortable with the blood testing because of his belief that it weakened him. However, Pacquiao did eventually agree to take the blood tests, but didn’t want to take any inside of 24 days before the fight. Mayweather wanted the random blood testing to stop at 14 days before the fight.
Should Mayweather get by Mosley on May 1st, Mayweather and Pacquiao may need to revisit the random blood testing issue if they want to negotiate for a huge mega fight in the future. If Mayweather drops the idea of blood testing, it shouldn’t be too hard to put together a fight with Pacquiao. However, it’s unlikely that Mayweather will want to back off his desire to have the random blood testing take place for a fight against Pacquiao. Mosley reportedly has no issues with taking the random blood tests for his fight against Mayweather.
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