Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather: What Will It Take for Them to Fight?

The one thing on every boxing fans mind is: what will it take to get the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather super-fight to take place?

With rumors upon rumors flying around out in cyberspace, it is hard to take into perspective to what's really going on in the attempt to bring together what is to be one of the biggest fights in history.

Here are five things I think can get the Pacquiao vs. Mayweather fight out of people's imaginations and into the ring.

1. Money, Money, Money

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Of course the main thing that goes into a fight of this magnitude is what the fighters will be paid.

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather are expected to both make somewhere around the $50 million range if the fight takes place, and rumors of Mayweather turning down $65 million to fight Pacquiao have been debunked by Mayweather himself.

Anyway you slice it, as long as Mayweather agrees to terms that will pay both fighters evenly—and not try to rake in more of the Pay-Per-View earnings as he has done in the past—the fight will have one less roadblock holding it back.

2. Egos Aside

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LAS VEGAS - MAY 01: Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. falls to the canvas as he laughs during a workout at the Mayweather Boxing Club May 1, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather will fight Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC super welterweight championship at the MGM

Since both fighters are being called the best pound-for-pound in the business by most boxing analysts, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather will have to set their egos aside for a moment, just long enough to get each other to sign on the dotted line.

This problem is more on Mayweather than Pacquiao because Mayweather has been known for his entire career for being a cocky, self-centered guy, and it will be harder for Mayweather to tame his ego far more than Pacquiao doing the same.

By all means Mayweather can go back to being Mayweather once the fight is officially signed and finalized, but until then he will need to keep his mouth and his Twitter in check.

3. Olympic Style Testing

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Olympic Style drug testing must be agreed upon by Manny Pacquiao—as Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley did in Mayweather's most recent fight back in May of 2010—to satisfy Mayweather's request.

With the tests being administered at several different times throughout the lead up to the fight—including the fight day it's self—Pacquiao had concerns with the tests effecting his stamina and felt that he didn't need to go through the test—Mayweather suggested the testing style when rumors came out about Pacquiao using PED's.

If Pacquiao has nothing to hide, then he shouldn't be worried about the testing. Whatever effects,if any he might feel due to the tests, Mayweather would go through the same exact one's so the concern he has with it making him less of a fighter would be voided out by Mayweather suffering what ever side effects testing on the same day of the fight might have.

4. The Fight Needs to Be Kept in the Ring, Not in the Media

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NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 14: (L) Trainer Freddie Roach talks to his boxer (R) Manny Pacquiao at a press conference to promote the fight with Shane Mosley at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers on February 14, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Get

Getting both Manny Pacquiao's and Floyd Mayweather's camps to end their war of words in the press and wait until the two scrap it out in the ring will help negotiations go smoother.

It seems that every couple of weeks someone from either camp will come out in the press and start bad mouthing the opposing fighter, which, no matter how you look at it, creates more tension between the two camps, creating an hostile environment during contract negotiations.

Sure, any press gives any fight more hope, but in this case the over two-year struggle to get the fight going has had it's fill of media slams.

No more are needed to keep the hype up for this fight; it will be there until the deal gets done.

5. A Face-to-Face Sit Down Between the Two Camps

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SWINDON, ENGLAND - MAY 23: Paolo di Canio signs his contract during a press conference to announce his arrival as manager of Swindon Town FC at County Ground on May 23, 2011 in Swindon, England. (Photo by Harry Engels/Getty Images)

As most fights are signed, they usually are with long distance non-personal negotiations, and this won't do any good in the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao fight talks.

Since there has been some much bad blood created between the two camps now, having a close quarters, personal meeting with both Mayweather and Pacquiao present would do the negotiations wonders.

Any wrinkles that need to be ironed out could be done face-to-face, and would resolve any problems as the arise, instead of waiting for responses in a back-and-forth phone negotiation.

Just having a more genuine feel to the negotiations by way of the more personable feel to the negotiations just might be the deal maker and get the long awaited Mayweather vs. Pacquiao mega-fight signed, sealed and delivered.