By Eric Thomas: Floyd Mayweather Sr. was in his usual tell I like it is mood on East Side Boxing’s On the Ropes Boxing Radio program recently, giving his thoughts about why his son Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn’t elect to agree to a contract to fight World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather Sr. had this to say about it: “Bob Arum don’t call no f*cking shots. The fight can be made anytime they want the fight to be made. Little Floyd definitely ain’t scared of no Pacquiao. That’s the last thing in the world that little Floyd is scare of, a little Filipino midget.”

The Mayweather-Pacquiao negotiations went nowhere recently after Mayweather came out and said he’s not interested in fighting right now. He didn’t say that there was anything in the contract proposal from Top Rank promoter Bob Arum that he didn’t like. He just doesn’t want to fight right now. Arum plans on restarting the negotiations early next year in May. Before then, Arum is going to match Pacquiao up with either Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito in November.

Its unknown where that fight will take place because if it’s Margarito, it can’t happen in the United States because he doesn’t have a boxing license. More than likely it will wind up in Mexico where Margarito lives.

Mayweather Sr. thinks there was never an agreement for Mayweather Jr. to fight Pacquiao. Mayweather Sr. says “My son don’t want to be paid like Pacquiao. He’s [Mayweather] the big draw, not Pacquiao. He drew more numbers than Pacquiao, and he wants to get paid like he’s supposed to be, not no 50-50. He wants to get paid like he’s supposed to get paid and I don’t blame him. I would be the same way. Pacquiao claims he wants half, but it don’t go that way. He’s not the best fighter, anyway. He knows he ain’t the best fighter, and Bob Arum knows he ain’t the best fighter, too. So why should you belittle yourself and take less money than you’re supposed to?”

Mayweather Sr. does have a good point. If you’re considered the best fighter by boxing fans and most writers, and you make the bigger money on pay per view, why would you want to agree to a 50-50 deal with a fighter that makes less than you on PPV, and who has already been beaten three times and had two draws? You can’t blame Pacquiao and Arum for trying to get the same money as Mayweather, because this is, after all, negotiations. But it doesn’t look as if it’s going to work out the way they’ve been doing it.

Arum and Pacquiao had their chance at a 50-50 deal in January, and instead of taking the sweet offer, Pacquiao wouldn’t agree to the random blood testing 14 days before the fight. Pacquiao wanted no testing 24 days before the fight. That effectively spoiled the deal. Pacquiao then went on and beat the little known Joshua Clottey by a dull 12 round unanimous decision on March 13th at the Cowboy Stadium. In the meantime, Mayweather went on to get huge PPV numbers in a win over Shane Mosley on May 1st.

Mayweather Sr. thinks that Pacquiao should agree to the full random blood testing before he fights Mayweather. “There shouldn’t even be a fourteen day ting. It should be a random thing”

Mayweather Sr. isn’t exactly impressed with the idea that Pacquiao could wind up facing Miguel Cotto again, who Pacquiao easily beat last year in November in a 12th round knockout win. Mayweather Sr. says “Bob Arum is giving Cotto a title and then turning around and letting Pacman beat Cotto up again and take it again. That’s all it is.”

Cotto had to beat Yuri Foreman, another one of Arum’s fighters, in order to capture the WBA junior middleweight title. Pacquiao wants a chance at winning an 8th world title, and he could wind up going after Cotto, if only for the title. Other than that, there’s really no reason for Pacquiao to fight Cotto again.