Manny Pacquiao: Superfight with Mayweather Won't Happen If Both Camps Don't Act

After Floyd Mayweather Jr. challenged Manny Pacquiao to a superfight on Monday, Pacquiao has come back and said he would like to fight Mayweather but is unsure the fight will happen.

Said Pacquiao, via BoxingScene.com, "Hopefully, the next fight, is Mayweather. However, I am not saying it will push through."

Sounds like what boxing fans have been saying all this time.

Obviously, Pacquiao was expressing concerns of how negotiations would go. The negotiations haven't exactly gone smoothly for the last few years, considering we have yet to see the top two pound-for-pound boxers square off.

Mayweather's camp has insisted it's been because Pacquiao won't take tests for performance-enhancing drugs. On Monday, via FightHype.com, Mayweather called Pacquiao a former "C+" fighter who was all of a sudden beating "A+" opponents.

But there is no doubt there has been some holdups on Mayweather's side of things, too, throughout the years. Before Pacquiao fought Juan Manuel Marquez on Nov. 12, Mayweather's camp wasn't pushing the fight like it is now.

The verdict?

Both camps need to stop trading insults and make a fight happen, whatever it takes. By now they need to realize it's about more than them—it's about the state of boxing when the top two boxers in the world can't even manage to fight once.

Honestly, I don't want to hear anything come out of Mayweather or Pacquiao or their trainers' mouths until the contract is a done deal. They continue to play a game of tug-of-war, with boxing fans caught in the middle.

It is actually hurting the sport of boxing, a sport that can hopefully rebound from a series of disappointing and controversial fights (Pacquiao vs. Marquez III wasn't disappointing as a fight, but the decision sure was controversial).

After Pacquiao's points victory over Marquez, his trainer Freddie Roach said of a potential Mayweather fight, "I think it would be the best fight in the world and I would love to see it."

Wouldn't we all.