By Chris Williams: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. is already planning ahead of his May 5th fight against Miguel Cotto looking towards after he completes serving his three months jail sentence. Mayweather wants to fight either Manny Pacquiao or Sergio Martinez in November. Pacquiao is the #1 choice, but as the Ring #2 pound-for-pound fighter, Pacquiao will have to accept that he can’t make as much money as the #1 fighter Mayweather if he wants to get the payday fight against him.

If Pacquiao still refuses to accept his smaller portion, Mayweather will move on and face former WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez instead. Mayweather’s fight against WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto on May 5th is the perfect preparation for Mayweather to get ready for Martinez because Cotto is a big fighter and tends to bulk up to over 160 for his fights. Going from Cotto to Martinez will be effortless and it’ll be a match-up that favors Mayweather due to his speed advantage over Sergio.

Mayweather’s adviser Leonard Ellerbe told adrempress.com “Nobody in the sport deserves a 50-50 split with Floyd, nobody…He really wants to fight Manny. Top Rank knows this…He is fighting Cotto at 154 to prepare for Sergio in the event that Pacquiao loses his next fight.”

That sounds smart. By fighting Cotto, Mayweather is right there and ready to face Martinez if Pacquiao gets whipped by Timothy Bradley on June 9th. There’s no point of ever having a Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight if Pacquiao gets beaten by Bradley, because we already saw Pacquiao pretty much get his backside handed to him in his last fight against Timothy Bradley, only to see two of the judges go with Pacquiao and ignore the screaming crowd that saw Marquez as doing the better work in their November fight last year. If Pacquiao beats Bradley, then Mayweather will once again try and line up a fight with him. He may even sweeten the pot a little by offering Pacquiao a little more than the $30 million he offered last time, but Pacquiao is going to have to accept that he’s not going to get a 50-50 deal with Mayweather, because he’s the new #1 pound-for-pound king and Pacquiao is #2. Mayweather Jr. easily beat Marquez, while Pacquiao won what a lot of fans saw as a gift decision.