By Chris Williams: WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (47-0, 26 KOs) is down to his last two fights of his contract with Showtime/CBS, and many people in the boxing community believe that a fight between him and WBO champ Manny Pacquiao will never come off.
Mayweather’s father/trainer Floyd Sr says that he’s confident that Mayweather will be fighting Pacquiao before he hangs up his gloves in the future. Floyd Sr isn’t dead certain it’s going to be happen, but he’s still very, very confident the fight will take place.
“I’m pretty sure he’s [Mayweather] going to get Pacquiao. It’s going to happen,” Floyd Sr said to Fighthype.com. “Trust me. That fight’s definitely going to happen.”
If anyone knows about whether the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight is going to happen, it’s Floyd Sr, because he knows how his son Mayweather Jr thinks.
Unfortunately there really isn’t any other interesting fights out there for Mayweather to fight other than the aging Pacquiao. Mayweather already beat Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez, and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. The only other interesting fight for Mayweather at 147 is against Amir Khan, and that’s a fight that will likely wind up far short of the pay-per-view numbers that Mayweather received for his bouts against Cotto and Canelo.
The fact of the matter is if Mayweather wants to get the big cash, he’ll need to face Pacquiao in one of his remaining fights in his career. Mayweather might choose to fight Pacquiao with one of his last two fights under his current 6-fight contract with Showtime, or he could opt to wait for a new contract to fight Pacquiao in 2016.
Waiting for a new contract offer would be a brilliant move on Mayweather’s part because he could save the Pacquiao fight until that time, and then fight another 2-3 fights with a short term contract with Showtime or perhaps even HBO.
The boxing fans will still want to see Mayweather-Pacquiao as long as Pacquiao doesn’t get beaten by Chris Algieri or some of the other guys his promoter Bob Arum matches him up against. If Arum makes the mistake of putting Pacquiao in with Danny Garcia or Canelo Alvarez or even Cotto again, I see Pacquiao losing all three of those fights by knockout.
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