Mayweather next for Manny Pacquiao?

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Bring on Floyd Mayweather!

That seems to the way the winds are blowing as to the next fight for Manny Pacquiao in the wake of Saturday’s stunningly easy knockout win over Ricky Hatton.

According to the Manila Times, Pacquiao said he wants to battle Mayweather in what will undoubtedly be the fight of the decade. Mayweather announced his own comeback just before Pacquiao’s fight.

“I like to fight him. I can fight anybody,” Pacquiao told the Times.

A Mayweather fight makes sense, in that Floyd Jr. retired as the regarded pound-for-pound champ, a throne since taken by Pacquiao. But Mayweather first must beat Pacquaio’s old rival Juan Manuel Marquez on July 18.

That Mayweather agreed to that fight apparently surprised the Pacquiao camp, who say they are unlikely to rest until the super-fight. Pacquio mentioned returning to the ring in the late fall.

“A busy fighter is a good fighter, we’re not going to wait around,” Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said. “Mayweather just had to wait one day and this fight could’ve happened. I think he’s scared of Manny.”
Aside from Mayweather, Miguel Cotto, Sugar Shane Mosley and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. are also being floated as possible opponents for Pacquiao.

Mosley congratulated Pacquiao late Saturday, then quickly lobbied to get that fight.

“Let’s get it done,” Mosley said. “I don’t see a reason they’d want to fight Cotto when I’m the champion who beat [Antonio] Margarito, who beat Cotto. It’d be a classic fight [against Pacquiao]. We both have good hand speed and power and I think that fans want to see the best fight the best.”

According to the L.A. Times, Team Pacquiao doesn’t want to fight either Mosley or Cotto at the welterweight limit of 147 pounds, and would demand that either move down to a catch-weight bout of 143 pounds.

Hatton, meanwhile, is being urged by many to retire. That second-round KO in Las Vegas that left the 30-year-old Briton requiring a brain scan.

“I’m so desperately sorry for you all,” Hatton told his followers. “I thought I would win but it went wrong. I’m OK but so upset for all the supporters who came out here.”

About 20,000 fans are thought to have made the trip from Britain to see Hatton fight.

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