Looking at the facts behind Floyd Sr. and Roger’s latest Pacquiao rants

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 Tags:

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The drug accusations are again coming thick and fast toward pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao, and as usual the Mayweather clan are at the forefront.

Last week Floyd Sr. commented about how he thought Pacquiao was taking a military drug that made him numb to pain and immune to bullets.

His erstwhile and even less coherent brother Roger than last night made a similar inflammatory speech than the one he gave in the past. Claiming that Pacquiao was taking A-side meth which made him bulletproof and that he was scared of being tested as a result.

The full show can be listened to here:BoxingTruth, and contains such fascinating insights as:

“If Manny Pacquiao wanted to fight, he would have taken the fight already. He didn’t fight because number one, he didn’t want to take the test. Any time a guy don’t want to make $100 million dollars, that tells you right there he got s*** illegal in him anyway,”

“I know what that mother****** got. He’s got that A-side meth. You can look it up on the internet. How else is a guy going to turn down $100 million mother******* dollars?”

Compelling stuff.

What you may be shocked to hear is that beyond all the babbling and expletives, there is a historical aspect to some of the Mayweather’s hate filled rambles. It doesn’t support them or their accusations exactly, but it does explain where they perhaps got the ideas.

The following is an excerpt sent to me by an eagle eyed and historically astute paclander by the name of Merito:

“Good day Sir.  I am a Filipino and avid reader of your articles.  I like what and how you write for you explain point by point every aspect of it.  I read your article about Mayweather, Sr. commenting that Manny is on something like a magical drug being used by the army or Filipinos 500 years ago when they are fighting the Americans here.

Actually what he is saying about the Filipinos back then, historically is half-true.  Mayweather, Sr. is probably talking about our Muslim brothers from the islands of Mindanao.  They are the kris-wielding juramentados of Mindanao who fought the American soldiers back then. They don’t die easily.  One or two .38 bullets would not disable these warriors.  It would need multiple bullets to disable and kill these juramentados.  The juramentados are not on drugs.  American soldiers back then thought they were on drugs because they cannot kill or disable them with one shot unless of course if hit on the head or the heart that would kill them instantly.  This is the very reason why the Colt .45 was invented.  The Americans created the Colt .45 solely for this purpose — to kill the juramentados instantly.

As I have said, these juramentados are not on drugs.  Before they go to battle, they perform rituals just like a suicide bomber of today.  The difference with the suicide bomber of today and the juramentados is that the juramentados during their rituals would tie, as in literally tie all the vital points of their whole bodies from the head down to the toes with ropes or strong cloths. They could take one or two bullets because all the knots tied to their body would cause numbness to their bodies, virtually feeling no or less pain.  To you sir, mabuhay! and Mabuhay ang mga Pilipino.  Thank you and God bless”
 
Of course tying everything in knots would probably limit Pacquiao’s movement a lot, not to mention he might struggle to make weight if he was wearing lots of extra cloth, but I don’t imagine Mayweather Sr. and Roger looked this all up before making their statements.
 
Bernie Walker, Pittsburgh PA: “I’m still on Floyd’s side on this one, but his father and uncle are hardly helping his cause. Rather than commenting on real performance enhancing drugs they both talk about magical drugs from hundreds of years ago? Floyd needs to cut them off if he wants people to take his side on this one”
 
Bernie, is your faith in Floyd Jr. finally cracking?
 
Matthew Nash, Pittsburgh PA: “It’s not strange to me that the Mayweathers would say all this stuff without checking the facts behind it”
 
George Cameron Harrisburg PA: “Doesn’t Floyd realize that his relatives are making him look like a laughing stock to the rest of the boxing world?”
 
It seems despite the fact that they are both damaging Floyd Jr’s credibility, both of the senior Mayweathers seem to like riling people up and getting a reaction. Part of it might just be that they cant believe Pacquiao is still tearing through opponents despite the weight climbing. But a lot of the all time greats were able to be successful at multiple weights, so it shouldn’t really come as that much fo a surprise.
 

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