Manny Pacquiao has given Floyd Mayweather Jr. only until the end of January to agree and sign the fight contract or he would be moving on with his fight option, reports the New York Daily News.
Apparently, the Pacman appears to be sick and tired of waiting for Money to make the move and take on his challenge in what is touted to be as the richest boxing bout in history.
Pacquiao has already agreed to a 60-40 purse split in favor of Mayweather. He has also agreed to the mandatory drug testing prior to the fight. He has also relented to Mayweather’s wish that the fight be held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. He has also okayed the fight date proposed by Mayweather.
The Filipino boxing icon has already did what he had to do but apparently, the decision, on whether the fight would happen or not, rests solely on Mayweather.
One foot on the door
Since posting a very convincing victory over American Chris Algieri in November 2014, Pacquiao has been on the offensive in challenging and pressuring Mayweather to agree to the fight.
In December, Mayweather verbally accepted the challenge during a media interview and set the fight date for May 2, 2015. But he or his camp has not made any moves to indicate that he is actually willing to fight Pacquiao.
While there have been reports that the camps of Pacquiao and Mayweather were in the midst of negotiations for the hyped $200 million boxing bout, it appears that Mayweather also has one foot on the door during the discussion.
Reports have it that even though his camp was negotiating with the Pacquiao camp, Mayweather is also negotiating for a return match with Miguel Cotto in May away from the limelight. And that was the reason why Cotto has been holding out on fighting Canelo Alvarez in May as well.
Cotto was obviously seeing that a fight with Mayweather is more lucrative than a fight with Alvarez.
Social media jabs
With the cat out of the bag on what Mayweather and his camp have been doing, Pacquiao resorted again to social media to let loose his jabs against Money.
On January 20, Pacquiao said on Twitter that he could easily beat Floyd Mayweather. After a minute, he made a follow up jab by saying that if Floyd really cares about the fans, he will agree to fight but if cares only about himself, he won’t fight. Pacquiao ended his post with #MannySmile.
The media have asked Mayweather and his representative to comment on Pacquiao’s latest challenge on social media but their efforts proved futile as they got no answer.
For his part, Arum said that if the fight falls through again, people and the entire boxing world already knows the reason behind the failure again of the fight to happen.