By Chris Williams: We recently learned that Manny Pacquiao is going to stick around for a little while longer, possibly long enough to fight six more fights. I’m not the type to buy into any arbitrary number thrown out by promoters, so I’ll just assume that the latest number is just something spit out without much meaning. Who knows how long Pacquiao will fight, because he could end up fighting long past six more fights especially with the way he’s being matched.

But my question is what’s the point in Pacquiao continuing to fight if he’s not going to face Juan Manuel Marquez, Sergio Martinez or Andre Berto. Right now, those are the only guys worth putting him in with. I’m holding off on the most obvious choice for Pacquiao with Floyd Mayweather Jr. until he finishes his legal problems. Who knows when that stuff will be off his plate and he’ll be ready to return to the ring. But I don’t want to see Pacquiao facing his promoter’s fighters over and over again without stop.

We’re probably going to be seeing Pacquiao face Miguel Cotto again really soon, and who knows, probably Antonio Margarito as well after he slices and dices Cotto later in the summer. Who wants to see Pacquiao Cotto and Margarito again? I sure don’t. But if Pacquiao does stick around for another couple of years, my guess those two fighters and possibly Joshua Clottey will be at least three of the fighters that Pacquiao faces during that time.

As far as the rest goes, we could see Pacquiao facing one or two other Top Rank fighters like Yuri Foreman, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., even though he’s a middleweight and we were told that Pacquiao wasn’t going to be facing big fighters anymore shortly after Sergio Martinez destroyed Paul Williams.