Pacman vs. Pretty Boy: Will they rumble after all?

To drug test or not, that's seems to be the nettlesome question that's threatening what should be the fight of this century: Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

A childish dispute over drug testing looks like a lousy excuse for delaying the bout or for keeping it from happening altogether.

But what's surprising here?

Isn't this simply how professional boxing has been for the better part of 1990s and beyond?

The sport has given its fans this head-fake before. It has stoked interest in a signature match only to let trifling matters undo everything. What should be an easy fight for promoters Bob Arum and Richard Schaefer to make has become more complicated than the U.S. tax code or the "simple" instructions to a do-it-yourself project that promises even a caveman can do it.

Nothing falls into the easy category, however, when it comes to putting together big-time fights. Greed and ego ruin everything, so can stupidity, which is the reason Mayweather might not step into the ring against Pacquiao after all.

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