First Negotiations
On December 5, 2009, ESPN reported that Pacquiao marked an
agreement to battle Mayweather on March 13, 2010. Quickly a while later,
Pacquiao denied steadily marking an agreement to battle Mayweather, telling
FanHouse, "There are still a few things that need to be arranged."
As per Yahoo! Sports, an eight-page contract was sent on
December 11 by Golden Boy Promotions for Mayweather to Top Rank, speaking to
Pacquiao, that proposed a 50-50 monetary part between the sides for a battle to
happen on March 13, 2010.
The eight-page assertion was detailed to the point that it
demonstrated which of the two contenders would step onto the scale first at the
say something (Pacquiao), who might stroll to the ring first (Pacquiao), who
might be presented first (Mayweather) and who had first decision of the locker
room (Mayweather). It itemized that the session would have been on HBO
Pay-Per-View at an expense of $59.95. Charging was to be "Mayweather
versus Pacquiao, displayed by Top Rank, Golden Boy Promotions, Mayweather
Promotions and M-P Promotions in relationship with [approved patrons and the
site]." The agreement likewise called for both contenders to submit to
Olympic-style medication testing.
A Mayweather-Pacquiao session around then was required to be
the biggest earning battle ever, in which add up to incomes could reach $300
million. Specialists anticipated the battle would offer between 2.5 million and
3 million pay-every perspectives in the U.S.
Venues for the battle being talked about were Cowboys
Stadium in Dallas, the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and the Superdome in
New Orleans.
In a feature titled "Boxing Legend Freddie Roach
Updates Us on Pacquiao" transferred to YouTube on December 11, 2009,
Pacquiao's coach, Freddie Roach, uncovered the first clue about Mayweather's
solicitation for Olympic-style medication testing, telling wandering journalist
Elie Seckbach, "I hear arrangements are somewhat shady. Schaefer and they
are miserable about something. They need Olympic-style medication testing. I
said, 'No doubt, no issue.' I said, 'Whatever you need.' Since we acknowledged
that, now they're running terrified once more."
On December 13, 2009, Pacquiao's counselor, Michael Koncz,
said Mayweather's appeal for Olympic-style medication testing was a snickering
matter and they had no concerns at all about it. "Our response is, 'So
what?' We know Manny doesn't take any illicit medications or anything. What's
more, none of this is getting under Manny's skin or anything. I'm here with
Manny, and to him, its similar to a joke. It's a chuckling matter," said
Koncz.
After reports hosted surfaced that both gatherings had
consented to all terms, Golden Boy Promotions discharged a press discharge on
December 22, 2009, uncovering that Pacquiao was unwilling to follow the
Olympic-style medication testing asked for by Team Mayweather. The accompanying
day, Bob Arum, Top Rank originator and CEO, proclaimed the battle was off and
Pacquiao would be confronting an alternate adversary. "We mollified
Mayweather by consenting to a pee examination whenever, and blood testing
before the question and answer session and after the battle. Mayweather
squeezed for blood testing even up to the say something. He realized that Manny
gets blew a gasket when his blood gets taken and feels that it debilitates him.
This is just badgering and, to me, recently flagged that he didn't need the
battle," Arum told David Mayo of the Grand Rapids Press.
Not long in the wake of pronouncing that the battle was off,
Arum had a change of heart and offered Mayweather a 24-hour take-it-or-abandon
it due date to acknowledge Team Pacquiao's terms for medication testing. Top
Rank conveyed a press discharge clarifying their position on Mayweather's
solicitation for irregular Olympic-style medication testing. In it, Arum said
Pacquiao was willing to submit to the same number of arbitrary pee tests asked
for, yet the extent that irregular blood tests were concerned, he was just
ready to subject himself to 3 tests: one in January, one 30 days from the
session (no later than February 13) and quickly after the battle. "How
about we be sure about the main problems we vary on. It's not about being
tested....It's about who does the testing and the booking of the
procedures....The real issue identified with the testing rests with which
autonomous organization will regulate these tests. The United States Anti-Doping
Agency (USADA) can't do it in light of the fact that they won't alter its
techniques to oblige the blood testing calendar we have sketched out. USADA,
under its rules, would have the privilege to manage irregular blood tests the
same number of times as they need up to say something day and that is
silly," Arum clarified.
Freddie Roach told Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times on
December 22, 2009, that he would favor for Pacquiao to give his last blood test
a week prior to the session and no later than 72 hours prior.
On December 28, 2009, feature from a scene of HBO's
Pacquiao-Hatton: 24/7 surfaced on the web demonstrating Pacquiao giving blood
in the weeks paving the way to his May 2, 2009, session with Ricky Hatton.
Reports affirmed that the feature was recorded on April 8, 2009, 24 days before
the battle and past the 30-day cut-off date that Pacquiao had requested for a
Mayweather battle.
Pacquiao recorded suit in U.S. Region Court in Nevada on
December 30, 2009, against Floyd Mayweather Jr., Floyd Mayweather Sr., Roger
Mayweather, Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions administrators
Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer, charging that they put forth false and
defamatory expressions blaming him for taking execution upgrading medications.
Both sides consented to go into intervention on January 7,
2010, with expectations of going to a concession to the blood testing issue.
Resigned government judge Daniel Weinstein, who effectively determined an
earlier debate between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions, would again go about
as arbiter. After two days, night-time of arranging amid intercession, Arum
pronounced that the battle was formally off after Mayweather declined to
consent to a 24-day cut-off date. Mayweather uncovered that he offered a 14-day
cut-off date to Team Pacquiao, however it was rejected.
Leonard Ellerbe proclaimed on January 18, 2010, that
arbitrary blood and pee testing will be executed in the majority of
Mayweather's future battles, paying little respect to the adversary. On
February 13, 2010, in an elite meeting with David Mayo of The Grand Rapids
Press, Mayweather said, "I issued him [Pacquiao] a chance, up to 14 days
out. Be that as it may my new terms are as far as possible up to the battle.
They can come get us at whatever point, as far as possible up to the battle,
arbitrary medication test. That is the thing that it is."
After the fizzled transactions, both boxers proceeded onward
to different battles. On March 13, 2010, Pacquiao crushed Joshua Clottey
through consistent choice, and on May 1, 2010, Mayweather beat Shane Mosley by
a consistent choice.
