Pacquiao Records

By TIM DAHLBERG, AP Boxing Writer Tim Dahlberg, Ap Boxing Writer – Wed Dec 23, 5:12 pm ET LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao has always been willing to spill blood to win a fight. He's not nearly as eager to give blood to get a fight. The fate of Pacquiao's planned March 13 megafight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. hangs in the balance. Both sides traded jabs Wednesday over Mayweather's insistence that the two submit to Olympic-style drug testing amid indications that both were open to a possible compromise. With time running short, though, Pacquiao's promoter said he's not willing to negotiate much longer to make the fight. "I think it's over tomorrow and we're going to another opponent if there is no agreement," promoter Bob Arum said. "It looks to me like they want a way out of the fight. Mayweather doesn't want to take a chance of losing." A day after Mayweather's camp threatened to scuttle the fight unless the boxers were subject to ...

LOS ANGELES – So who’s next for Manny Pacquiao ? Well, at least for now, he’s got Ricky Hatton to his left, and Floyd Mayweather Jr . to his right. And all Pacquiao has to do is choose. Pacquiao , fresh from his eight-round destruction of Oscar de la Hoya at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, said Sunday that the Mayweather camp had sent feelers about a possible fight with the Filipino superstar. “They sent a message to us that if I beat De la Hoya, he will come out of retirement to face me,” said Pacquiao, referring to Mayweather who suddenly retired after beating De la Hoya and Hatton last year. But following Pacquiao’s unbelievable win that pushed De la Hoya closer to retirement, there are calls for another big match, another dream match against Mayweather, the former pound-for-pound champion. Pacquiao now wears that billing, and a fight with Mayweather , sometime in May or June, will be another great night of boxing. But Hatton wants to face Pacquiao, too, and also offers a huge opport...