According to a Manny Pacquiao advisor, a Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight still has a shot at happening down the road.
For the first time in years, discussion of that match up was not a primary focus during a Mayweather fight week. Instead the bulk of the focus remained on the actual made fight, which featured Floyd Mayweather cruising to an easy decision over Robert Guerrero last month.
Manny Pacquiao, who is coming off of consecutive losses to Tim Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez, is no longer quite the draw he was a couple of years ago when negotiations failed between the pair.
And while Mayweather prepares for his next fight with Saul Alvarez, Pacquiao will try to right the ship when he faces Brandon Rios in Macau, China. If Pacquiao does just that, adviser Michael Koncz believes Floyd Mayweather will have no excuse not to entertain the possibility of finally working out a fight.
“Floyd is always a possibility,” Koncz told RingTV. “We’ve always said that we would fight Floyd.
“I think that Manny will have to have an impressive win in light of comments that Floyd has made about Manny losing his last two fights, and I think that if Manny has an exciting and impressive win come November 24, then Floyd won’t have any excuse if he really wants to fight.”
Mayweather’s fight with Alvarez, Sept. 14 in Las Vegas, will be his second in a six fight deal with Showtime. Manny Pacquiao, has no contractual obligations to any network, but is promoted by Top Rank. That, as always, can be a sticking point as Bob Arum does not get along well with Golden Boy Promotions, which will be promoting its seventh straight Mayweather bout.
“If the fans still want to see this fight, we’re willing to do it,” Koncz said.
The fact of the matter is that if Pacquiao is able to revert to previous form, and beat Rios soundly, and if Floyd gets past Canelo, then once again this will be a fight the fans are clamoring for. However, it is unclear that the two sides will ever be able to come to a deal even if that were to happen. When Pacquiao resigned with Top Rank, he basically guaranteed that the fight would never be made considering the bad blood involved.
Of course all of that does not matter if the two parties do not take care of business with their current scheduled opponents first. And with Floyd taking on a younger, much larger opponent, and Manny not looking like Manny recently, neither is a given.
