The Filipino ring hero, Manny Pacquiao may face the IBF light welterweight champion, Lamont Peterson. Peterson is willing to mix it up with the fancied Filipino pugilist who holds the distinction of winning 8 world titles in as many world weight categories.
Peterson who hails from, Washington, District of Columbia was been added into the short list of probable opponents for Pacquiao in the year 2012. The much anticipated fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather was stalled anew Floyd Mayweather Jr. was handed with a 90 day jail sentence on account of misdemeanor domestic violence charges. Mayweather doesn’t have enough time to prepare for his fight against Pacquiao on May, 2012.
Aside from the 5 feet 9 inches Peterson, other fighters that were being considered as Pacquiao’s opponents are his recent victim Juan Manuel Marquez, Timothy Bradley the reigning WBO champion in the 140 lbs category and the WBA junior middleweight titlist Miguel Cotto.
The megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was averted no thanks to the bogged down negotiations between the two camp. Mayweathers’ insistence of an Olympic Doping Test on the Filipino ring icon was too much to ask for and instead of inking a multi-million deal he will just be facing a lawsuit filed from Pacquiao.
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Boxing, Manny Pacquiao | howitzer | 
January 14, 2010 7:18 am | 
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With the heavy, stinging and truly image damaging brickbats hurled on by the Mayweather camp, Manny Pacquiao the current world’s pound-for-pound king said that he will file a lawsuit against the ascerbic Floyd Mayweather et al.
Whether of not his mega-fight with Floyd will push through or not. Manny Pacquiao fumes with immense anger at the Mayweathers for acusing him of using steroids that helped him win great fights against touted opponents during his illustrous career as a premier boxer. Mayweather blasted Pacquiao with series of maligning attacks for the past several days. Pacquiao who nabs another accolade to add another triumph in his already bloated list of achievements as he nailed the 2009 fighter of the year by Boxing Scene for the third time in four years, hinted that Mayweather is afraid of facing him in the ring that he may lose the fight and tarnish his unbeated win-loss record slate. Pacquiao said that , Floyd Mayweather Jr, Floyd Mayweather Sr and Richard Schaefer claimed that he was into some kind of “roids”.
and what makes Pacquiao even more furious was the audio recording that was released in October, wherein Mayweather Jr. said that the Philippines is a producer of the best PEDs.
Pacquiao sain in an interview by Philboxing.com, “I can’t beleive these guys can lie without batting an eyelash and they would even make it appear that I am the culprit for the delay of the fight saying that I don’t want it to happen.”
The Mayweather camp wants Pacquiao to undergo the Olympic-style Doping Test aside from those required by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Pacquiao has no objective to these series of drug tests as he said “I will provide after the fight but not a day or two before, for obvious reasons.”
Floyd may be at the losing end with the pandemonium and havoc, the March 13 mega-fight that could help him earn the biggest paycheck in his career is doom to vanish in thin air, no thanks to his trash talking antics or perhaps just playing it chicken in facing the planet’s most revered boxer in the world, the Filipino Manny Pacquiao.
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