Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in jeopardy

Reuters

NO DICE: World champion Manny Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum will choose another opponent for the Filipino fighter after failing to reach a deal with Floyd Mayweather.

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The mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr has been thrown into jeopardy.

Mayweather's camp is demanding the fighters submit to Olympic-type drug testing in the weeks leading up to the bout.

Leonard Ellerbe, Mayweather's manager, says the fight will not go ahead if Pacquiao doesn't agree to blood testing under standards followed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

Ellerbe says all the other details of the March 13 fight had been agreed upon.

But he says Pacquiao refused to have his blood drawn within 30 days of the fight, saying it was a superstition.

The fight had been expected to be formalised this week.

- AAP