Mayweather pulls out of 'Fight of the Century' | Thebigtip

The sport of boxing better be ready for some fowl language.

As of midnight on the seventeenth of July, boxing’s golden goose, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has decided to play chicken and duck Manny Pacquiao. The super fight nearly all of boxing has been calling for looks to be dead, maybe once and for all.

This is not the first time this fight has failed to materialize. About six months ago this fight ran into its first road block. Shortly after, Mayweather made his return to the ring after a semi-retirement.

Floyd Jr. defeated Juan Manuel Marquez and Pacquiao defeated Miguel Cotto to jump start talk of a Mayweather/Pacquiao fight. Mayweather already started ducking Pacquiao implying he was using performance enhancing drugs and wanting Olympic style blood testing.

Pacquiao agreed to most of the blood testing expect for the taking of blood the day of the fight. That was not good enough for Mayweather who wanted testing all the up to the week of the fight.

Without being able to come to a consensus over the blood test the fight fell apart. Pacquaio easily defeated Joshua Clotty after talks broke down and Mayweather struggled early but took care of Shane Mosley.

Mayweather was defended by writers and fans saying the sport needs better testing and hailed Floyd Jr. as role model for the sport. The Pacqauio camp loosed their restrictions on blood testing and sent a contract to Mayweathers camp for a fight in November.

After ducking Pacquiao this time, I think it is fair to say that the blood testing was not about cleaning up the sport but a way for Mayweather to get out of this fight. For a fighter who claims to be the best of this generation it seems Floyd Jr. is scared of Pacquiao.

A couple of things to get to before Mayweather fans wine and cry. There have been a couple of reasons floated on why Floyd Jr. would not want to fight this year.

The first reason is that Mayweather is avoiding fighting because of taxes. Secondly, is that Mayweather’s uncle Roger Mayweather August trial over allegations that he assaulted and choked female boxer Melissa St. Vil.

Honestly, those are valid reasons for not wanting to fight this year. But those reasons do not exclude Mayweather from not negotiating a fight after the trail or in 2011.

No, matter what Floyd Jr. fans and the media think, Mayweather was using blood testing because he is afraid to fight Pacquaio. But there is one other reason that Floyd Jr. does not want to fight Pacquiao.

That reason is that Mayweather wants to finish his career with an undefeated recorded.  All the great boxers like Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Sonny Liston, Joe Lewis and more could not avoid a loss during their careers.

Floyd Jr. is running scared from Pacquaio because he sees his undefeated record and his perceived legacy in jeopardy. If there was a boxer in the sport right now who could defeat Mayweather it is Pacquaio.