Mayweather is making it clear that he isn’t going to cave into the public pressure to fight Manny Pacquiao. He’s content on waiting for the perfect deal and if that deal doesn’t happen then he will move on.
Floyd was on Shade 45 radio and he had this to say about the negotiations:
“Do I want to fight Pacquiao? Absolutely! Are we negotiating? Absolutely! But has the fight been made? Not at all…Hopefully it’s Mayweather-Pacquiao. Of course we’re trying to make the fight happen between me and Pacquiao. Are we negotiating? Absolutely we are negotiating. But Pacquiao said that he agreed to everything. What did you agree to? You have no say so. You have a boss. That’s called Top Rank Promotions. That’s not called Pacquiao Promotion,” said Mayweather.
“My contract is up at 49-0, because I truly believe that I’m going to win my next two bouts, because I believe in myself and I believe in my skills….We’re going to make it happen, though. We’re trying, but it’s been extremely difficult dealing with Top Rank. I don’t want to sit right here and point the finger at Pacquiao and say that it’s him, because it’s not Pacquiao. It’s his promoter. So lot of times when Pacquiao says, ‘I agree,’ you don’t have nothing to do with this. You’re not a boss. On the chessboard, you’re a pawn…They want to point the finger at the other guy, which is me.”
Floyd isn’t lying though, Pacquiao doesn’t negotiate his fights and even though he’s willing to take beans to fight Mayweather, Bob Arum is not.