Big money will make Floyd Jr fight Pacquiao

One of Manny Pacquiao’s closest advisers believes the aborted fight between the Filipino boxing icon and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will push through owing to the potential big money involved with it. Rex "Wakee" Salud said that Pacquiao, being the big name in boxing today, commands a fight since a showdown with him is easily translated into a huge payday as what David Diaz, Miguel Cotto and Joshua Clottey later found out.

Admit it or not, Mayweather is aware of that. "Alam naman nating kaya bumalik si Mayweather dahil kay Pacquiao. Alam niya yung potential nung fight with Pacquiao. He wants to earn a lot especially with reports saying about his problem with taxes," said Salud. "Kaya sigurado mangyayari yan." If it happens, the former boxing manager and promoter didn’t have second thoughts as to who will emerge victorious. "Manny is unbeatable right now." Pacquiao himself is very vocal about his dream to square off with Mayweather inside the ring. "Siya naman talaga ang gusto kong makalaban at talunin," said the Pacman after arriving at his Los Angeles home two days following his lopsided win over Clottey during their World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight championship fight in Dallas. In retaining his 147-pound title, it can’t be helped to ask Pacquiao about his thoughts on meeting the unbeaten loudmouth American next after their supposed fight failed to materialize when Mayweather demanded that both of them undergo random, Olympic-style drug testing before and after the bout. "It’s up to him if he wants to fight me. No problem with me. I’m ready to fight all the time," said the 31-year old champion from the Philippines. Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s trainer, said a showdown with Mayweather is the fight the world wants to see as it featured two of the best boxers in the world today. But for that to finally materialize, Mayweather has to win his May 1 World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight title bout opposite "Sugar" Shane Mosley. And of course, leave the drug testing procedure alone under the auspices of the boxing commission in-charge. "Get into the ring Floyd and fight us,’ Roach said in issuing the challenge to the former Olympian. Bob Arum, who’s Top Rank Promotions holds the rights on Pacquiao, agrees with Roach, the man he repeatedly proclaimed as the “best trainer in the world today". "If that fight should take place, Mayweather has to sign a waiver contract, with all the strenuous issues not to be raised," said Arum. “The issue of drug testing is not for a fighter to be raised, there are absolute people who are in-charged of these issues." But Mayweather believes it’s Pacquiao who needs him the most. "All roads lead to Floyd Mayweather Jr. We all know that," said Mayweather. "If he wants to fight me, he doesn’t have to look far. Just look for the biggest mansion in Vegas and that’s me." Mayweather stressed he wants to see how Pacquiao and Roach will react once he beats Mosley two months from now and prove that’s still the best-for-pound fighter in the world, a universally-recognized title the Filipino assumed following Mayweather’s abrupt retirement in 2007. "Once I get Mosley out of the way, we’ll see what Pacquiao has to say. Until then, I don’t want to hear about him or nothing," Mayweather added. – GMANews.TV