Filipino boxing champion Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao wants Floyd Mayweather Jr to be his next opponent.
"I've said this before over and over and will keep on saying, I want Floyd Mayweather Jr to be my next opponent." Pacquiao said in an interview with Eddie Alinea of PhilBoxing.com.
Bob Arum, Top Rank chief, Pacman's promoter, will fly to Sarangani to talk and discuss with Pacman his desire to be in the ring with Mayweather this June.
Negotiations for the fight were ongoing between the camps of the two boxers but was put on hold after Mayweather was sentenced to a 90 day-jail term for a domestic violence charged against him in 2010 by a former girlfriend.
But Bob Arum said that he no longer consider Mayweather to be the Pacman's next opponent in his future fights. The Top Rank boss instead list Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, Timothy Bradley Jr. and Lamont Peterson in the shortlist.
Pacman will insists a Pacquiao-Mayweather bout to happen than being in the ring with the four boxers mentioned in Arum's list.
Pacquiao even said that he is so willing for the drug test the camp of Mayweather requesting and even getting a lesser pay just to push through with the fight.
Pacquiao also said that it is his job to fight and abide by the fans desire who they want him to fight but still, the final decision will still be in the hands of Arum.
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