Tensions brewing around Pacquiao-Mayweather mega-fight

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L-R: Manny Pacquiao and Fliyd Mayweather Jr

L-R: Manny Pacquiao and Fliyd Mayweather Jr

Tensions appeared to be rising around the long awaited welterweight world title fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, with the fighters’ camps reportedly at odds over a proposed doping penalty.

Pacquiao adviser Michael Koncz told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday that he was “a little puzzled and dismayed” that Mayweather wouldn’t agree to the $5 million penalty Pacquiao had proposed should either fighter test positive for a banned drug.

Mayweather Promotions chief executive Leonard Ellerbe, however, told the newspaper that the drug testing protocol for the May 2 fight in Las Vegas had been …Read More

Source:: PM Newspaper