Please stop taking steroids (only assumption one can make) and fight Floyd Mayeather. It will be awesome and win or lose, you will make $30 million.
Signed,
Boxing Fans Everywhere
As a Filipino, I find your statement about Manny taking steroids totally baseless considering he's never failed a test. The man just doesn't like needles and Mayweather knows this and his father started a totally baseless rumor because he's scared and ducking him.
Take the fucking test. For $30 million I think you can figure out how to take a blood test. And how can you say it is a needle thing when he says he is will to take a blood test up to 2 weeks before the fight? I am making an assumption, not listening to Floyd Mayweather Sr. Mayweathers demands are probably a bit much but Manny needs to take the tests. Keep in mind, Floyd is not the first person to accuse Manny of PED use.
Take the fucking test. For $30 million I think you can figure out how to take a blood test. And how can you say it is a needle thing when he says he is will to take a blood test up to 2 weeks before the fight? I am making an assumption, not listening to Floyd Mayweather Sr. Mayweathers demands are probably a bit much but Manny needs to take the tests. Keep in mind, Floyd is not the first person to accuse Manny of PED use.
He doesn't need the money. He still lives in the Philippines where the average daily wage is about 7 or 8 dollars a day. You can retire there on Social Security and have a live in maid and a driver. So the money would be a nice benefit to him, but he's made more than enough. I'm just curious to see if he gets elected next month because if that happens the fight probably isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Ur assuming alot with manny, is he linked to doctors? Just cause big mouths douche patrol cries..... Doesn't mean Jack shit.
His crew doesn't regulate boxing, they have commisions for that. This fight woulda been good, had I hade a hot tub time machine and went back to the early 00's
Take the fucking test. For $30 million I think you can figure out how to take a blood test. And how can you say it is a needle thing when he says he is will to take a blood test up to 2 weeks before the fight? I am making an assumption, not listening to Floyd Mayweather Sr. Mayweathers demands are probably a bit much but Manny needs to take the tests. Keep in mind, Floyd is not the first person to accuse Manny of PED use.
He doesn't need the money. He still lives in the Philippines where the average daily wage is about 7 or 8 dollars a day. You can retire there on Social Security and have a live in maid and a driver. So the money would be a nice benefit to him, but he's made more than enough. I'm just curious to see if he gets elected next month because if that happens the fight probably isn't going to happen anytime soon.
I hear you but I don't know many people that would turn down a $30mil payday. They both need this fight, neither of them have beat anyone. They are both being bitches about it but I personally think he needs to take the test. It's not like they want a pint of blood.
Ur assuming alot with manny, is he linked to doctors? Just cause big mouths douche patrol cries..... Doesn't mean Jack shit.
His crew doesn't regulate boxing, they have commisions for that. This fight woulda been good, had I hade a hot tub time machine and went back to the early 00's
Yes I am assuming a lot (I said that in an earlier post) but I think it is the only assumption one can make. Granted the Maywather requests are a bit much, I just don't see any reason for him to not take the tests if he does not have anything to hide. I am all for Olympic style testing for all professional sports.
Edit: You don't have to be linked to any doctor to get steroids. As I said, Mayweather is not the first person to accuse him of PED use.
Ur assuming alot with manny, is he linked to doctors? Just cause big mouths douche patrol cries..... Doesn't mean Jack shit.
His crew doesn't regulate boxing, they have commisions for that. This fight woulda been good, had I hade a hot tub time machine and went back to the early 00's
Yes I am assuming a lot (I said that in an earlier post) but I think it is the only assumption one can make. Granted the Maywather requests are a bit much, I just don't see any reason for him to not take the tests if he does not have anything to hide. I am all for Olympic style testing for all professional sports.
Well Mayweather is the only one with known association to steroid users:
Ur assuming alot with manny, is he linked to doctors? Just cause big mouths douche patrol cries..... Doesn't mean Jack shit.
His crew doesn't regulate boxing, they have commisions for that. This fight woulda been good, had I hade a hot tub time machine and went back to the early 00's
Yes I am assuming a lot (I said that in an earlier post) but I think it is the only assumption one can make. Granted the Maywather requests are a bit much, I just don't see any reason for him to not take the tests if he does not have anything to hide. I am all for Olympic style testing for all professional sports.
Well Mayweather is the only one with known association to steroid users:
Take the fucking test. For $30 million I think you can figure out how to take a blood test. And how can you say it is a needle thing when he says he is will to take a blood test up to 2 weeks before the fight? I am making an assumption, not listening to Floyd Mayweather Sr. Mayweathers demands are probably a bit much but Manny needs to take the tests. Keep in mind, Floyd is not the first person to accuse Manny of PED use.
He doesn't need the money. He still lives in the Philippines where the average daily wage is about 7 or 8 dollars a day. You can retire there on Social Security and have a live in maid and a driver. So the money would be a nice benefit to him, but he's made more than enough. I'm just curious to see if he gets elected next month because if that happens the fight probably isn't going to happen anytime soon.
I hear you but I don't know many people that would turn down a $30mil payday. They both need this fight, neither of them have beat anyone. They are both being bitches about it but I personally think he needs to take the test. It's not like they want a pint of blood.
That's your opinion that Manny beat no one, but his place is already secure in boxing history. No one ever won 7 titles in 7 classes - not even Mayweather who started out the same weight as Manny.
what's that song by Stevie wonder
very........ What??, it's on the tip of my tongue
why should manny have to go above and beyond the rules on the books now?? Floyds on crack for even
makin this an issue
how does manny get the ok to fight others? Why does this fight need more testing
Quoting is all fucking up on this but do you really think it supersition that is holding up a $30 mil pay day? I mean, honestly, would a 3 minute drug test fuck him up so much mentally that he turns down a $30 mil pay day?
That's your opinion that Manny beat no one, but his place is already secure in boxing history. No one ever won 7 titles in 7 classes - not even Mayweather who started out the same weight as Manny.
Listen, I like Manny for the most part. And I agree with most of what Sugar said. This is definitely mind games with Mayweather but I just don't see any reason for these tests to hold it up.
That's your opinion that Manny beat no one, but his place is already secure in boxing history. No one ever won 7 titles in 7 classes - not even Mayweather who started out the same weight as Manny.
Listen, I like Manny for the most part. And I agree with most of what Sugar said. This is definitely mind games with Mayweather but I just don't see any reason for these tests to hold it up.
Well if Manny gets elected, this fight probably will not happen and the boxing world will be split between people who think Mayweather ducked the fight and people who think Manny took steroids.
So we can either root for Manny to lose and the fight to happen eventually or Manny to win and hopefully do a decent job helping his district back home. Having been to the Philippines several times, the people need someone they can look up to because politics there is so corrupt.
That's your opinion that Manny beat no one, but his place is already secure in boxing history. No one ever won 7 titles in 7 classes - not even Mayweather who started out the same weight as Manny.
Listen, I like Manny for the most part. And I agree with most of what Sugar said. This is definitely mind games with Mayweather but I just don't see any reason for these tests to hold it up.
Well if Manny gets elected, this fight probably will not happen and the boxing world will be split between people who think Mayweather ducked the fight and people who think Manny took steroids.
So we can either root for Manny to lose and the fight to happen eventually or Manny to win and hopefully do a decent job helping his district back home. Having been to the Philippines several times, the people need someone they can look up to because politics there is so corrupt.
I know Manny has done some great things and I know he is running for Congress (or whatever it is called). That is outstanding and I tip my cap to him for his great work, his music career on the other hand....
Even if he does get elected, which I assume he would since he is the most popular figure ever there, training for a fight takes what? 2 months?
As a long time boxing fan, this fight just needs to happen. It will be by far the biggest PPV fight ever. Boxing needs it.
If Manny's juicin he isn't gonna risk his national hero status.
Mayweather isn't gonna risk his self proclaimed best pound for pound fighter.
Fight'll prolly happen 5 or 10 years too late, when Pacquio and Mayweather both have solid copouts.
But really, who cares if the fight happens? Boxing isn't goin anywhere but down. The fact that this is the fight people wanna see says alot to me.
Boxing maybe in the abyss as we speak but still many would like to see this fight. They will always be a market for boxing it just will never reach the ionic period of the 70's and 80's. I've been a championship fight in Vegas and there's nothing like it there especially if you have a fighter with an international status like Pacquiao. The fight will happen probably by the end of this year all this delay has done is bring more drama to the fight which boxing thrives on.
Peace
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
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*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has dispatched Shane Mosley, talk immediately turned to the potential showdown with Manny Pacquiao, who has apparently softened his stance on the drug testing procedures that derailed their negotiations in January.
Pacquiao and Mayweather, universally regarded as the top two fighters in boxing, tried to make the mega fight in December and January.
The camps had agreed on all terms except for the way to handle drug testing for what many believe would be the biggest money fight in boxing history. The all-time pay-per-view record of 2.45 million was set in Mayweather's victory against Oscar De La Hoya in 2007.
When Pacquiao and Mayweather reached an impasse, Pacquiao went on to easily defeat Joshua Clottey on March 13 and Mayweather took a lopsided unanimous decision against Mosley in their welterweight super fight on Saturday night.
Mayweather, who accused Pacquiao of using performance-enhancing drugs despite having no evidence, had insisted on strict blood and urine testing, which was employed during the lead-up and immediate aftermath of his fight with Mosley.
Pacquiao, who has a defamation lawsuit pending against Mayweather and his team over the accusations, agreed to unlimited urine testing -- but with limits on how many blood tests he would take and how close to the fight he would agree to be tested.
Now, less than 48 hours after Mayweather's victory, Pacquiao seems to be in a compromising mood in order to make a fight for which official negotiations have not yet begun.
"I am willing to help the sport for the future of the sport. I do not want to see anyone cheat or cheat this sport. For that reason I am willing to consider taking blood [tests] as close as 14 days prior to the fight, as long as my opponent does the same, and it is not a lot of blood, just enough to test," Pacquiao is quoted as saying on his official website.
Mayweather has no issue undergoing the same kind of testing as his opponent.
During the previous negotiation, Pacquiao had insisted on a cut-off of blood testing 30 days before the fight and eventually moved to 24 days when it came to light that he had taken a blood test during that time frame before his second-round knockout of Ricky Hatton in May 2009.
Pacquiao had agreed all along to take a blood test immediately after the fight.
"I do not want anyone having an unfair advantage where someone may get hurt," said Pacquiao, who is in the final days of his congressional campaign in the Philippines. "I am willing to do my part to help this sport out."
Pacquiao had said previously he did not want to have blood drawn too close to the fight because he feels like it weakens him.
"Mayweather is the furthest thing on our mind," Michael Koncz, Pacquiao's adviser, said in a statement to Pacquiao's website. "Our focus has been and continues to be Manny's desire to become congressman."
Following the election, Pacquiao and his family are expected to go on vacation and the fighter will discuss his next bout upon his return.
"As Manny has stated many times, we are willing to fight anyone, anytime, anywhere in accordance with the athletic commission's rules and regulations in which ever state we fight in," Koncz said. "We will not be bullied into or entertain any additional rules or regulations to be imposed by our opponent."
Top Rank's Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter is headed to the Philippines to support Pacquiao in the final days of his campaign. He told ESPN.com on Monday that during the trip he will not talk to Pacquiao about Mayweather, drug testing or any boxing business.
"As far as I am concerned, I am not even going to raise anything," Arum said. "We're not even going to talk about future plans until after election and that's the truth.
"I have no thoughts about the other stuff but I have an open mind to everything. Obviously, he's my fighter and I will do what he asks me to do, but there's a time for everything. And the time is not now."
Mayweather said after the fight Saturday night that he would fight Pacquiao under the same kind of Olympic-style testing used for the fight with Mosley.
"If he wants to fight it's not that hard to find me," Mayweather said. "We tried to fight before and it didn't work, and we moved on. Mosley did what I asked him to do and if every athlete in the sport would do that, we know we would have a clean sport. Everyone should take the test. I am willing to take the tests. If Manny takes the test we can make the fight happen. If he doesn't we don't have a fight."
Dan Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com.
My drinking team has a hockey problem
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
Well, that was a fucking beat down last night. I love at the end of the fight Jim Lampley said "Antonio Margaritios face will never look the same again".
The PAC-MAN is awesome and even better to see him fight in person. Eight different weight classes, yes that's right 8 different weight classes he has conquered.
peace
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
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Comments
Take the fucking test. For $30 million I think you can figure out how to take a blood test. And how can you say it is a needle thing when he says he is will to take a blood test up to 2 weeks before the fight? I am making an assumption, not listening to Floyd Mayweather Sr. Mayweathers demands are probably a bit much but Manny needs to take the tests. Keep in mind, Floyd is not the first person to accuse Manny of PED use.
ur joking right? Manny doesn't want to draw blood too soon before the fight, he'd do it after or weeks befor. Floyds camp were reaching with that
tiger is more
likely to have done some. With his ties to doctors and that most of the tour are suspicious according to to a new poll
Come on, this is fucking boxing, stop being a bitch at take the fucking test.
I didn't realize 24%=most. I guess I have to go back to statistics 101.
Do you think Tiger used HGH or other performance-enhancing drugs?
Yes: 24%
No: 76%
He doesn't need the money. He still lives in the Philippines where the average daily wage is about 7 or 8 dollars a day. You can retire there on Social Security and have a live in maid and a driver. So the money would be a nice benefit to him, but he's made more than enough. I'm just curious to see if he gets elected next month because if that happens the fight probably isn't going to happen anytime soon.
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- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
His crew doesn't regulate boxing, they have commisions for that. This fight woulda been good, had I hade a hot tub time machine and went back to the early 00's
I hear you but I don't know many people that would turn down a $30mil payday. They both need this fight, neither of them have beat anyone. They are both being bitches about it but I personally think he needs to take the test. It's not like they want a pint of blood.
Yes I am assuming a lot (I said that in an earlier post) but I think it is the only assumption one can make. Granted the Maywather requests are a bit much, I just don't see any reason for him to not take the tests if he does not have anything to hide. I am all for Olympic style testing for all professional sports.
Edit: You don't have to be linked to any doctor to get steroids. As I said, Mayweather is not the first person to accuse him of PED use.
I don't see anything wrong with that.
Same difference
Well Mayweather is the only one with known association to steroid users:
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- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
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I hope your not serious
Fucking nonsense. One is about old school rules, the other is about PED use. Give me a break.
very........ What??, it's on the tip of my tongue
why should manny have to go above and beyond the rules on the books now?? Floyds on crack for even
makin this an issue
how does manny get the ok to fight others? Why does this fight need more testing
That's your opinion that Manny beat no one, but his place is already secure in boxing history. No one ever won 7 titles in 7 classes - not even Mayweather who started out the same weight as Manny.
Hear's Bert Sugar's opinion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3MZcNQ8SQ
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- 8/2/07, 8/5/07
- 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
- 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
I'm not but that match was such a joke.
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- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
Quoting is all fucking up on this but do you really think it supersition that is holding up a $30 mil pay day? I mean, honestly, would a 3 minute drug test fuck him up so much mentally that he turns down a $30 mil pay day?
Edit: I guess the quoting is okay.
Listen, I like Manny for the most part. And I agree with most of what Sugar said. This is definitely mind games with Mayweather but I just don't see any reason for these tests to hold it up.
good night everyone
we'll get the whitesox tomorrow cliffy
fuckin a..... Pj in Hartford less than 2 weeks
Well if Manny gets elected, this fight probably will not happen and the boxing world will be split between people who think Mayweather ducked the fight and people who think Manny took steroids.
So we can either root for Manny to lose and the fight to happen eventually or Manny to win and hopefully do a decent job helping his district back home. Having been to the Philippines several times, the people need someone they can look up to because politics there is so corrupt.
- 8/28/98
- 9/2/00
- 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
- 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
- 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
- 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
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- 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
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- 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
Can't wait for Hartford. Took the week off and getting my PJ fix starting that show.
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- 9/11/11, 9/12/11
- 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
I know Manny has done some great things and I know he is running for Congress (or whatever it is called). That is outstanding and I tip my cap to him for his great work, his music career on the other hand....
Even if he does get elected, which I assume he would since he is the most popular figure ever there, training for a fight takes what? 2 months?
As a long time boxing fan, this fight just needs to happen. It will be by far the biggest PPV fight ever. Boxing needs it.
Just MSG 2 for me
Mayweather isn't gonna risk his self proclaimed best pound for pound fighter.
Fight'll prolly happen 5 or 10 years too late, when Pacquio and Mayweather both have solid copouts.
But really, who cares if the fight happens? Boxing isn't goin anywhere but down. The fact that this is the fight people wanna see says alot to me.
Boxing maybe in the abyss as we speak but still many would like to see this fight. They will always be a market for boxing it just will never reach the ionic period of the 70's and 80's. I've been a championship fight in Vegas and there's nothing like it there especially if you have a fighter with an international status like Pacquiao. The fight will happen probably by the end of this year all this delay has done is bring more drama to the fight which boxing thrives on.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Pacquiao-Mayweather still possibility
By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com
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Now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has dispatched Shane Mosley, talk immediately turned to the potential showdown with Manny Pacquiao, who has apparently softened his stance on the drug testing procedures that derailed their negotiations in January.
Pacquiao and Mayweather, universally regarded as the top two fighters in boxing, tried to make the mega fight in December and January.
The camps had agreed on all terms except for the way to handle drug testing for what many believe would be the biggest money fight in boxing history. The all-time pay-per-view record of 2.45 million was set in Mayweather's victory against Oscar De La Hoya in 2007.
When Pacquiao and Mayweather reached an impasse, Pacquiao went on to easily defeat Joshua Clottey on March 13 and Mayweather took a lopsided unanimous decision against Mosley in their welterweight super fight on Saturday night.
Mayweather, who accused Pacquiao of using performance-enhancing drugs despite having no evidence, had insisted on strict blood and urine testing, which was employed during the lead-up and immediate aftermath of his fight with Mosley.
Pacquiao, who has a defamation lawsuit pending against Mayweather and his team over the accusations, agreed to unlimited urine testing -- but with limits on how many blood tests he would take and how close to the fight he would agree to be tested.
Now, less than 48 hours after Mayweather's victory, Pacquiao seems to be in a compromising mood in order to make a fight for which official negotiations have not yet begun.
"I am willing to help the sport for the future of the sport. I do not want to see anyone cheat or cheat this sport. For that reason I am willing to consider taking blood [tests] as close as 14 days prior to the fight, as long as my opponent does the same, and it is not a lot of blood, just enough to test," Pacquiao is quoted as saying on his official website.
Mayweather has no issue undergoing the same kind of testing as his opponent.
During the previous negotiation, Pacquiao had insisted on a cut-off of blood testing 30 days before the fight and eventually moved to 24 days when it came to light that he had taken a blood test during that time frame before his second-round knockout of Ricky Hatton in May 2009.
Pacquiao had agreed all along to take a blood test immediately after the fight.
"I do not want anyone having an unfair advantage where someone may get hurt," said Pacquiao, who is in the final days of his congressional campaign in the Philippines. "I am willing to do my part to help this sport out."
Pacquiao had said previously he did not want to have blood drawn too close to the fight because he feels like it weakens him.
"Mayweather is the furthest thing on our mind," Michael Koncz, Pacquiao's adviser, said in a statement to Pacquiao's website. "Our focus has been and continues to be Manny's desire to become congressman."
Following the election, Pacquiao and his family are expected to go on vacation and the fighter will discuss his next bout upon his return.
"As Manny has stated many times, we are willing to fight anyone, anytime, anywhere in accordance with the athletic commission's rules and regulations in which ever state we fight in," Koncz said. "We will not be bullied into or entertain any additional rules or regulations to be imposed by our opponent."
Top Rank's Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter is headed to the Philippines to support Pacquiao in the final days of his campaign. He told ESPN.com on Monday that during the trip he will not talk to Pacquiao about Mayweather, drug testing or any boxing business.
"As far as I am concerned, I am not even going to raise anything," Arum said. "We're not even going to talk about future plans until after election and that's the truth.
"I have no thoughts about the other stuff but I have an open mind to everything. Obviously, he's my fighter and I will do what he asks me to do, but there's a time for everything. And the time is not now."
Mayweather said after the fight Saturday night that he would fight Pacquiao under the same kind of Olympic-style testing used for the fight with Mosley.
"If he wants to fight it's not that hard to find me," Mayweather said. "We tried to fight before and it didn't work, and we moved on. Mosley did what I asked him to do and if every athlete in the sport would do that, we know we would have a clean sport. Everyone should take the test. I am willing to take the tests. If Manny takes the test we can make the fight happen. If he doesn't we don't have a fight."
Dan Rafael is the boxing writer for ESPN.com.
The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
Make it fucking happen Mayweather.
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Manny can take punches from these guys there is no way Mayweather can hurt him
I can't wait for the next round of excuses
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The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill
A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers