Xylocaine is LEGAL in Nevada. Team Mayweather is entitled to use it on Floyd in his fight with Manny in Las Vegas, NEVADA.
Bloodtests are NOT REQUIRED in Nevada. Team Pac is entitled to reject all OTHER form of testing except those prescribed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC). They seem to be doing their job well as they caught Chavez Jr. on PED's last December.
Team Mayweather should be THANKFUL that Team Pacquiao even entertained their blood test requests. In fact the problem here is in the TERMS of these bloodtest and not on the blood testing itself. Team Pacquiao's concession of a 24 day blood test cutoff period and even agreed to a blood test immediately after the fight and random urine testing through the duration of the training camp should be more than enough for Team Mayweather especially since Pacquiao has never tested positive of any banned substance before. Thats more, much more than a 50-50 compromise - more like 80-20 compromise, MILD and fair request my as$ - in favor of Team Mayweather especially since drug tests, unlike purse splits, venue, glove sizes, ring size, penalties etc. are above and beyond the norm of what you would expect from a standard boxing negotiations. A 14 day cutoff period would be really pushing it. You know the saying, "offer them your hand, and they would ask for your arm next", well Team Mayweather is not content with the hand and arms, they even want Team Pacquiao's head and torso, and Team Pacquiao, by disagreeing on the 14 day cutoff period, is saying enough is enough with your whimsical and totally unnecessary requests.
And besides a 14 day blood test cutoff (or two weeks before fight night), which was offered by Team Mayweather to the press only AFTER the talks brokedown, is waaay to close and in fact coincide with a boxers's peak training period. Roach doesnt want Pacquiao mentally preoccupied with his fear with needles on or near this period especially since such blood tests are completely unnecessary. Mind games, baby.
Athletic superstitions are stupid but thats the way they are. The idea that Pac has some irrational superstition about drawing blood makes him weak sounds silly, but athletic superstitions often are.
http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=24328
. . . . As Kevin Costner’s immortal Crash Davis noted in the baseball classic Bull Durham, “If you believe you're playing well because you're getting laid, or because you're not getting laid, or because you wear women's underwear, THEN YOU ARE [playing well]!” Athletic mindsets are a tricky thing.
Hell, i've seen basketball jocks boast of wearing the same "lucky" boxers and socks for the duration of an entire tournament, physical hygiene be damned (they just flip it in every game). I've seen die-hard b-ball fans carry empty, smelly, germ infested, beer cans and plastic cups - drained empty on the first game of their team's winning streak, as lucky charms to keep their team's winning ways.
Anyway, like i said before, if Team Mayweather feels that the NSAC drug testing procedures are not effective enough or if Team Pacquiao feels that a painkiller like xylocaine should be banned in Nevada, like in many states in the US, they should take that up with the Nevada State Athletic Commission instead of wrangling about it in the negotiating table.
>>> ABOUT Teddy Atlas
I dont know what's Teddy Atlas' beef with Pac or more likely Bob Arum but this isn't the first time he is disrespectin' Pacquiao. Name your "reliable sources" regarding those emails, Teddy, so we could grill them.
http://www.doghouseboxing.com/DHB/Tyler082209.htm
He thinks Pac is only 3rd in the P4P list behind Floyd and Marquez and even that is an optical illusion. He act and speak like he is in GBP's pocket.
"David, probably Pacquiao even though I think there is a little bit of optical illusion there. I got to put a qualifier on it like buyer beware. Just remember that his last two fights that we are all going ga, ga over has probably projected him to the point that in people’s minds as pound for pound the top guy. Pacquiao is not the top guy. Those fights can be very, very, misleading and that’s what I mean by an optical illusion."
>>> ABOUT EPO's
Father of sports drug testing: Blood not needed to nail EPO cheats
http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-NY-Boxing-Examiner~y2009m12d30-UCLA-Doctor-Blood-tests-not-needed-to-catch-EPO-cheaters
>>> ABOUT HGH
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-02-26-usada-hgh_N.htm
"There is a blood test for HGH that has been used at the last three Olympics, but it is expensive and no athletes have tested positive."
The same article outlines a new and more effective URINE test.
Team Mayweather's blood test requests ain't about preserving the integrity of the sport but rather serves as a harassment tool against Team Pacquiao. I dont for how long Golden Boy Promotions would ride along with Mayweather and co.. I mean sure, its fun to pain Arum (for outsmarting them on the value of Pacquiao) and Pacquiao (for destroying the drawing abilities of their cash cows, Oscar and R.Hatton) but the Mayweathers, Ellerbe and Heymon's antics are beginning to do more harm than good.
I certainly blame Mayweather's camp for the current animosity and uncooperativeness between Top Rank and GBP, which would lead to less interesting boxing matches for us fans to watch.
Maybe its time for GBP to say enough is enough to Mayweather and co.
>>> ABOUT Vic Conte
In this article: http://www.doghouseboxing.com/DHB/Kim122509.htm
Vic Conte, BALCO guy, offered his unsolicited opinion on the Pac-Mayweather fight (and his opinion on doping procedures in general) to PUBLICIZE his services as an anti-doping consultant.
According to Conte, the current boxing tests and the Mayweather and GBP preferred USADA tests are both WEAK.
So if Mayweather or GBP gives any weight on Conte's opinion, their insistence on USADA (blood) testing for the Pac fight would be stupid.
Hell, Conte's beef WAS NOT because of the 14/24 day cutoff period for random blood testing stipulated on the Pac vs Mayweather fight but because the USADA testing is in his own words:
". . . . because you're allowed two missed tests and they can't come back the next day because you have to be allowed a hearing to provide your reasonable explanation or the 'exceptional circumstance' as they call it. So they'll just come back the next day and of course none of this is transparent. It's like being up to hit in baseball where you get two strikes and then you smack it out of the park and hit a home run."
Maybe Team Mayweather with the help of Mr. Conte should first advocate that USADA clean up its act before applying its anti-doping procedures as an alternative to the NSAC.
>>> BONUS
http://www.boxingtalk.com/pag/article.php?aid=19112
THE BALL IS IN FLOYD'S COURT
By Al Bernstein
Best part:
When he decided to move up in weight, Freddie Roach rightly recognized that if Pacquiao fought the way he had in the lower weights, somebody bigger would probably knock him out. So, at age 29, with the help of Roach, Pacquiao did what few boxers do at any age---he reinvented himself. He became the very defiunitio0n of a boxer-puncher. The Pacquiao that fought David Diaz, Oscar DeLaHoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto at weights from 135 to 147 used hand and foot speed, an infinitely better right hand, and better defense to go along with power. Anybody who professes to know boxing should have been able to see that.
No performance enhancing drugs can change your technique. Even though he stopped all of those opponents fighting at weights higher than he had previously fought at—it was not power that made the difference. The difference was speed, ring generalship, combination punching and a vastly improved defense.