OH! NO! SAY IT AINT SO! THE FIGHT BETWEEN FLOYD MAYWEATHER & MANNY PACQUIAO GETS CANCELED!

It happened again. Even after nine hours of discussion with a mediator in the middle of it, the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather is off for now and is probably hold until the fourth quarter of 2010. How can boxing blow a chance at fight that would pay the fighters a minimum of $60 million combined? Longtime columnist and boxing writer Jerry Izenberg seems to lay the blame at the feet of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Golden Boy Promotions.
Golden Boy seems to have completely reversed its course on the importance of blood testing:

When Golden Boy (the company) represented Shane Mosley, an "accidental" (he said) steroid user in the Balco scandal for his fight against Zab Judah, it was Mr. Schaefer who babbled: "Whatever test the Nevada Commission wants Shane will take but we are not going to do other tests (as Judah demanded). Shane is not a cheater and does not need to be treated like one."

What happened? What's the difference between Mosley and Pacquiao?

And "now" (with neither logic nor evidence) [Schaefer] explains his demand for outside blood tests by saying "I have educated myself since then. I know the difference between blood and urine tests."

Izenberg went on to rip Schaefer further:

With a banker’s arrogance he says he knows more about steroids than most sports writers. He claims they don’t know the difference between blood and urine testing. Funny, most of us have been writing about them for decades while he while he was allegedly "educating" himself.


Izenberg writes that it could be Yuri Foreman v. Pacquiao while Mayweather could fight Paulie Malignaggi in March.