While Mayweather appears to be enjoying retirement, Pacquiao is still fighting and hoping for a rematch.
The reason is simple, the money for a rematch is much better than the money he gets for fighting someone like Jessie Vargas.
Will it happen?
Here is what Pacquiao and Freddie Roach think they need to do via The LA Times.
As Pacquiao moves nearer to his Nov. 5 welterweight title fight against Jessie Vargas in Las Vegas, the most interest in him is whether he packs enough power in his blows to provoke Floyd Mayweather Jr. out of retirement.
Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, said he recently crossed paths with Leslie Moonves, the chairman and chief executive of CBS, at a Southland restaurant, where Roach said he told Moonves that Pacquiao wants a rematch with Mayweather (49-0) in 2017.
“Let’s do it again,” Moonves said, according to Roach.
“Can you deliver Mayweather?” Roach asked.
“Yes,” Moonves said, according to Roach.
Pacquiao has denied that he called Mayweather asking for a rematch.
The first fight was blah and a very difficult promotion, I don’t think there is any reason to repeat the process.