If not for the defamation suit filed by Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Sr. might still be talking a lot about Pacquiao’s steroid use. The libel case against Floyd Sr., his son and the Golden Boy Promotions is now moving forward in a district court in Nevada. The judge ruled that the 8 division world boxing champion has enough evidence that will prove the group tried to ruin his career by insinuating he is a steroid user.

The defendants asked for the dismissal of the case but their move was futile. “Moving defendants argue that Pacquiao has failed to sufficiently allege malice because moving defendants could not have known one way or the other whether Pacquiao had actually taken PEDs when they made the alleged defamatory statements. However, the court finds that Pacquiao has sufficiently pled malice in the amended complaint,” said Judge Larry Hicks.

If Manny Pacquiao wins the defamation suit, the Mayweathers and the Golden Boy Promotions may be required to pay a huge sum (which is around $5 million according to online sources) for damages and probably require them to make a public apology. In addition, losing a case is not a good thing especially for the father and son tandem who portray themselves as the best trainer in boxing and the best fighter in the world.

In an effort to clear his name, Floyd Mayweather Sr. called Percy Crawford of FyteHype to qualify his previous statements regarding the alleged steroid use of Pacquaio. Floyd Sr. claimed that a writer, who he can’t remember the name, misquoted him during an interview. “I didn’t say I know for a fact Pacquiao was on steroids because I don’t know that,” he told Crawford.

Sportswriters in the boxing arena became curious on the identity of the writer Floyd Sr. is referring to. Brad Cooney of the 8countnews.com and sportswriter for the Examiner immediately cleared things out. “Since Mr. Crawford of FightHype.com allegedly didn’t know who Floyd was talking about, and Floyd Mayweather Sr. couldn’t remember who HE was talking about, let me help the both of them out. It was MY article on Examiner.com that Big Floyd was referring to,” Cooney wrote.

Cooney on his part denied that he twisted Floyd’s statements to make it appear that the trainer said Pacquiao is using steroids. “I never wrote in my article that Floyd said that he knew for a fact that Pacquiao was on steroids,” said Cooney who even put a link to his Examiner article to prove he did not wrote those things.

According to Cooney, there were many instances where Floyd Sr. made similar statements during his interviews with him. Though Floyd Sr. did not categorically said Pacquiao is into performance enhancing drugs, most of his statements implies that Pacquiao is taking steroids. A link to a podcast was also shared by Cooney to let the readers view the entire interview with Floyd Sr.

Cooney reiterated that what they report is factual and they cite their sources. “We stream the audio of our interviews so that you, the fans, can listen verbatim to what the fighters and the trainers have to say,” he said.

Cooney may not be alone in this issue. There were other interviews where Floyd Sr. talked about the steroid use of Pacquiao. One website quoted Floyd Sr. saying “Pacquiao’s got the power pellets and the steroid juice.”

Meanwhile, there are reports that Floyd Jr. is now facing another problem. He is being hunted by the IRS for allegedly not paying $3.4 million taxes for the year 2009.

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