Pac v. Money: A Reality? No Way

So now I hear that after Manny Pacquiao is elected to congress in the Phillipines, he is going to accede to Floyd Mayweather's demand that he give blood up to 14 days prior to fight night, again immediately after the fight and remove the only stumbling block to the biggest fight of this generation. Well, hallelujah!

In this space, I have been a supporter of Pacman's unwillingness to bow to the unilateral demands of little Floyd but after watching Floyd beat the strong shadow of Shane Mosley last Saturday night, I more than ever want to see Floyd pass boxing's ultimate test: a prime great fighter who noone can make excuses for him about. He deserves that kind of test and indeed, it's the very test he has so long carefully avoided.

Will it happen? No way. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. will find a new way out. He will change his demands on blood testing before the fight to ten days, then to five, then to three. He will demand daily testing! Anything to avoid getting in the ring with a game-changing type of fighter. Floyd Mayweather long ago stopped taking risks in his career. He's proven that he no longer has to. He can pick and choose his opponents. He didn't need Shane five or even three years ago...but he shrewdly waited until Shane was just enough diminished, then invited him in instead of a real threat, only to outbox him while Shane still looked good enough to apease the critics. He has proved masterful at crafting his safety first career...but he may be about to be exposed, if not exactly undone.

If Manny Pacquiao figures Mayweather out, it could genuinely be entertaining. Watch Manny keep agreeing to more ridiculous conditions, then watch the bar move again. Or perhaps Floyd will schedule the fight, then injure himself in training....as many times as necessary. That's always a good one. Maybe Floyd will take the fight, then get himself arrested, like uncle Roger, like daddy Sr., like son?

I know only this: I believe there is no amount of money that Money will take to hand over his zero. At some point, he became the house and the house doesn't run games where the odds fail to favor the house. Ever.