By Chris Williams: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. assured boxing fans that he does still want to fight Manny Pacquiao in the future. However, Mayweather Jr. has an obstacle in front of him in the form of WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz, who Mayweather Jr. faces on September 17th.
At the press conference today with Ortiz, Mayweather said “Floyd doesn’t duck or doge no one. For my fans and for the Manny Pacquiao fans, do I want the fight? Absolutely. If the fans want it, I want to give it to them. But one step at a time. I can’t overlook Ortiz.”
Mayweather Jr. is right. Pacquiao fans are just going to have to put a sock in it for a while until Mayweather gets his important fight with Ortiz out of the way first. This is a crucial fight for Mayweather Jr. because he’s not fighting an old guy or someone weakened by a catch weight. Mayweather is facing one of the best fighters in boxing and perhaps the number #3 fighter in the welterweight division. Once he gets Ortiz out of the way, then they can start talking Mayweather-Pacquiao, as long as Pacquiao wins his next fight against Juan Manuel Marquez in November, and as long as Pacquiao is willing to agree to the Olympic style random blood testing for performance enhancing drugs that Mayweather will no doubt be asking for before he agrees to fight Pacquiao. I don’t don’t think Mayweather is going to agree to any three week drug testing breaks before the fight or even two weeks for a fight with Pacquiao. We may only be seeing a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight if Pacquiao agrees to the full random blood testing that Mayweather is asking his opponents to do before he fights them.
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