By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) used his New York City press conference on Tuesday with WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) to get in some more digs on WBO welterweight champ Manny Pacquiao, saying he doesn’t want a catchweight to fight Cotto because he sees that as cheating. Mayweather also said Pacquiao needs to take the test, refereeing to a random blood test for performance enhancing drugs.

Mayweather said this during the press conference as quoted by fightnews.com “I’m not looking to chead. I tell Miguel Cotto I don’t want to fight you at a catch weight.I want to fight the best Miguel Cotto…Pacquiao is an amazing fighter, but all I’ve got to say is if you don’t got nothing to hide then take the test.”

That’s kind of the main things Mayweather was harping on. It was pretty much the same themes he’s been talking about for a while now, and I’m hoping he comes up with some new material in his next press conference because he’s repeating himself.

As for Cotto, he didn’t say much just talking about how he’s hoping the days pass quickly so he can fight Mayweather, and he wants to start training as soon as possible to get ready for their May 5th bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tickets for this fight are sky high expensive. You got to have big bucks if you want to see this fight live. It seems like a better deal to watch on pay per view and save a lot of money and hassle.

Mayweather had to get a little stab in at Pacquiao in mentioning the catch weight, because Pacquiao fought Cotto in 2009 at a catchweight of 145lbs rather than the full weight, even though Cotto was the champion. Pacquiao wanted to fight Cotto for his next fight but Pacquiao wanted Cotto to come all the way down to 147 to make the fight and wasn’t willing to give him a slight catch weight to meet him at 150.