The world renowned trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. makes some noise again in the boxing scene when he accused the current pound-for-pound king as a steroid user. In an interview by the Michigan’s Grand Rapids Press, Mayweather Sr. deliberately said that Manny Pacquiao used steroids to beat his opponents. “I believe he’s on some kind of supplements,” Mayweather said. He is confident that Pacquiao can’t beat his son who is a 6 times world champion. “I don’t think he can beat Lil Floyd with steroids in him or not. I just don’t think he got…he don’t have that kind of talent. He don’t have that kind of skill, you know,” he added.

Mayweather suggested that Manny Pacquaio should be checked thoroughly for performance enhancing drugs. “Everybody should be checked, I think. I think everybody should be checked a little bit more thoroughly than the way they checking them now because sometimes, some of them are sliding through man and sometimes, people will know what’s going on and they ain’t saying nothing,” he said.

Many boxing experts believe that Pacquiao is the best fighter who can give Mayweather Jr. his loss. But his father-trainer is quick to counteract this by saying that they are just pushing Pacquaio a little bit too much. Even if Pacquiao is on steroids and becomes faster and stronger, it will not add more knowledge to the fighter. “It’s going to make them relentless and strong and hit hard, but that’s it. It ain’t gonna put no knowledge in your head,” he said.

The trainer also made some negative comments against Pacquiao during his fight against Ricky Hatton. He was the trainer of Hatton who lost in the early rounds by a TKO.

Although these accusations were unfounded, many believes that Mayweather Sr. is doing this because of the scheduled fight of his son, Floyd Mayweather Jr. (39-0, 25 knockouts) against Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs) on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This will be the first fight of Mayweather Jr. after his retirement almost two years ago.

Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KOs), who has a scheduled fight against Puerto Rico’s Miguel Cotto (34-1, 27 KOs) for the World Boxing Organization welterweight (147 pounds) on Nov. 14, makes his counter-punch. During their promotional tour, Pacman denied using any steroid. “Maybe all of them- they’re using the steroids, and not me,” he said. “You know what? I don’t even know what a steroid is. I’ve never done that,” he added.

Mayweather Jr. believes that he is still boxing’s best fighter and the pound-for-pound king. Pacquaio, on the other hand has a different opinion. “Floyd Mayweather was the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter before, but not any more. I’m not going to say that about myself. I’ll leave that up to the fans and someone else to decide,” he said.

Moreover, Mayweather Jr. slashed Shane Mosley on his alleged steroid use. He said in interview that Shane Mosley beat Oscar dela Hoya twice using steroids. “So did he win all those championships? Absolutely not, he was on steroids. Now he talks about wanting to fight everyone out there? Shane, your career is over. You’re almost 40! Give it up,” he said.

The result of the Saturday Mayweather-Marquez fight will determine if Mayweather is still the best pound-for-pound fighter in the boxing arena.

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