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New Pacquiao opponent for March fight
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Unknown welterweight lined up after Mayweather deal unravels
MANILA
While Floyd Mayweather Jr's camp believes his prospective bout with Manny
Pacquiao can be saved, Pacquiao's promoter says he's moving on.
After six weeks of contentious negotiations failed to produce a compromise on
Mayweather's insistence on stringent drug testing for the bout, Pacquiao has
made plans to fight welterweight Joshua Clottey in mid-March, Top Rank boss
Bob Arum said.
"This is crazy. We've moved on,"
Arum said.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO
Richard Schaefer, who works with
Mayweather, isn't ready to give up.
He's worried Top Rank hasn't told
Pacquiao that the potential richest
fight in boxing history could be
saved if the Filipino star would agree to take a blood test for performance-
enhancing drugs 14 days before the proposed March 13 bout -- just 10 days
later than Pacquiao already agreed.
Schaefer was angered when Arum came out of the camps' mediation hearing
Tuesday blaming Mayweather for the fight's collapse, saying Mayweather
wouldn't agree to a final blood test 24 days before the bout. Schaefer claims
Top Rank turned down a compromise of 14 days on New Year's Eve, but he
isn't sure whether Pacquiao - who's at home in the Philippines - was involved
in that decision.
Both fighters stand to make much more than $25 million apiece from the much-
anticipated bout.
Paulie Malignaggi had been rumored to be the top candidate to fight
Mayweather if the Pacquiao deal collapsed.
