Floyd Mayweather spurns compromise to end hope of Manny Pacquiao fight

Floyd Mayweather Jr, smarter in the ring than out of it, may have made the costliest blunder of his career by rejecting the late compromise Manny Pacquiao offered him to save their $200m (£125m) fight in March.

The Filipino yesterday reluctantly agreed to take a blood test for drugs 24 days before the bout, scheduled for the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, on 13 March; Mayweather, immovably suspicious of Pacquiao's punching power through the weights, insisted on random tests at any point during the 30 days before the fight.

[readon1 url="https://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jan/07/floyd-mayweather-manny-pacquiao"]Source: guardian.co.uk[/readon1]