Floyd Mayweather made Manny Pacquiao get his cup inspected

In one light, boxing is super precise and every little detail matters to the competitors. In another light, boxing is super weird and the competitors are lunatics:

Yeah, that’s Pacquiao lifting his shirt in front of a bunch of important people in a locker room to demonstrate that his protective cup is a good protective cup and sits normally on his junk, like it’s supposed to. So that he can get punched in the gut without issue.

Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, says this has been an ongoing thing and seems to think Mayweather is trying to put off the fight with little quibbles like these. Via the Daily Mail:

“His speech is very low-key. Subdued. I don’t think any fighter is afraid but I don’t think he wanted this fight. He was forced into a fight he didn’t want to take.”

The storm in a jock-cup obliged Pacquiao to have that item of apparel cleared by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

Roach says: “They made a protest about Manny’s cup. They came to training this week, inspected it and approved it. The commissioner marked it and signed it to make sure it’s the one he’s wearing on the night. But it’s the regular cup.”

The commissioner wrote his name on the piece of plastic Pacquiao will wear over his penis, assuring that it is the correct piece of penis plastic. Again, boxing is weird.

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