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Now that Mayweather has beaten Mosley, it seems like the fight Mayweather vs Pacquiao may happen later this year. However, the drug test issue won’t go away.  Especially now that both Mayweather and Mosley submitted to it in this event.

I really don’t like Mayweather as a person or as a boxer, but he is still one of the best. With 41 wins under his belt and no losses against top opponents it is hard to argue against.

I think the majority of top fighters do take PEDs and that testing for the sport has always been a joke.  This would be a good opportunity to put boxing in a better light and even the playing field.

LA Times:

The problem is that Mayweather wants Pacquiao to submit to the same Olympic-style drug testing that Mosley and Mayweather underwent for their fight. Mosley said on fight week he had given eight urine tests and four blood samples supervised by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Pacquiao earlier refused, saying he was uncomfortable giving blood close to a fight, and a mediation failed to strike a deal. So talks to stage Mayweather-Pacquiao in March crashed.

Can they get a deal done now?

In the ring afterward, Mayweather said, “If [Pacquiao] wants to fight, he knows where to find me. If Manny takes the test, we can make the fight. If he doesn’t, we don’t have a fight.”

De La Hoya added that the drug testing brought “respect to the sport.” Mayweather said he was proud to declare, “I’m clean, I don’t have to take nothing.”

Pacquiao’s resistance would appear questionable now, especially with the Nevada State Athletic Commission moving to explore the work of the USADA in the Mayweather-Mosley fight and possibly install blood tests as part of the state commission’s anti-doping program before a possible fall super fight.

Arum has maintained there’s more money to be made by placing a Mayweather-Pacquiao bout at the 100,000-plus-seat Cowboys Stadium in Texas, where blood testing is nonexistent, rather than at the 15,000-seat MGM Grand in Las Vegas. But Mayweather was clearly calling the shots the first time around, and he’s more empowered by the Mosley triumph. His co-promoters at Golden Boy unquestionably prefer the fight to be in Las Vegas.