By Chris Williams: At today’s New York press conference, Floyd Mayweather Jr. laid out the golden path for WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao to follow if he wants to get the riches and the attention that fight against him would bring him by losing his promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank so the two fighters can finally get it on after all these years.

Mayweather said this about a potential fight with Pacquiao as quoted by ESPN “The only way I fight a guy [Pacquiao] with three losses and I don’t know how many draws, the only way that fight happens is he has to leave Bob Arum. And I’m not telling him to leave, because I know how the media is. They take your words and screw them up. They make it the way they want to make it.”

There it is, folks. All Pacquiao has to do is dump Arum and he’s got the fight with Mayweather. It makes a lot of sense. Mayweather obviously believes that Arum has been the one getting in the way of the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight from being made, and hence with the 80-year-old Arum out of the way the fight could easily be made. Sounds good, because a lot of boxing fans believe that Arum is the one that doesn’t want the fight to be put together for fear of seeing his cash cow Pacquiao exposed by Mayweather, which could lead to Pacquiao getting diminishing returns in future pay-per-view bouts.

I mean, yeah, Pacquiao gets totally exposed by Mayweather and ends up getting knocked out out in the process. Who would want to PAY to see Pacquiao fight after Mayweather beats him? Not too many people I bet, and this is obviously why Mayweather wants Pacquiao to move away from Arum so he can try and get a fight put together without forces pulling the two fighters apart.