By Chris Williams: In the latest boxing news, trainer Freddie Roach says he doesn’t ever see a mega fight between his fighter Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. ever happening, according to an interview at Yahoo Sports.

Roach, who’s currently training Pacquiao for a bout against Antonio Margarito on November 13th, says “I don’t think it will ever happen. It will be one of those fights we’re never going to see. It would’ve happened by now. All that money on the table … how can you turn it down? Boxing’s a sport, but it’s a business also. The world knows that Floyd is ducking Manny Pacquiao at this point. Floyd’s going to be content with fighting mediocre-type opponents, opponents with styles he knows he can beat.”

Roach needs to take a good look at his own fighter Pacquiao as well for part of the blame for the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight not taking place. There was a golden opportunity for the fight to be made during the first negotiations earlier this year in January and February. However, Pacquiao didn’t want to agree to take random blood tests two weeks before the fight like Mayweather wanted.

Pacquiao would only agree to taking the blood tests up to three weeks before the fight because he felt weakened when blood was removed from his body. I see the first fight being missed because of Pacquiao. However, during the second negotiations after Pacquiao whipped Joshua Clottey, I put that on Mayweather not wanting to fight for some reason.

I have no idea why Mayweather didn’t want to fight Pacquiao at that time, but I can only guess it was because he had already made a ton of money in his win over Shane Mosley on May 1st and because of that, he wasn’t eager to get back in training for a bout with Pacquiao that would have taken place in November. But, yeah, I put that on Mayweather. He could have taken the fight if he wanted to, but what can you say? He made a ton of money and really didn’t have the urge to fight Pacquiao at the time.

As for Roach thinking the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight will never happen, I think he’s wrong. As soon as Mayweather burns through all the money he made in the Mosley fight, he’ll be more than willing to get in the ring with Pacquiao and school him. The only thing is Pacquiao might be retired by then. Pacquiao is talking about fighting only three more times, which means he likely will be ending his career late next year in 2011.

If Mayweather can’t or is unwilling to fight Pacquiao at that time, then I don’t see the fight ever happening. It would help matters if Bob Arum doesn’t start scheduling Pacquiao up against other guys so quickly. He needs to make sure that Mayweather is being offered the fight each time. If he declines to fight Pacquiao after the Margarito fight, then by all means Arum should go ahead and match Pacquiao up with whichever Top Rank fighter he has available in his stable.