Boxing:Manny Pacquiao suspects Floyd Mayweather Jr by is afraid to fight him. The two P4P titans appeared set to clash in a blockbusting fight this year, but it fell through when their camps failed to agree on drug-testing procedures.
The whole thing has spilled over into the courtroom with Pacquiao suing Mayweather Jr among others for defamation, while back inside the ropes Manny must now move on.
And he's been talking about the situation ahead of his March 13th showdown with Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
He said: "What I believe is Floyd Mayweather is not ready at this time to fight with me. That's why he makes the reasons to cancel the fight. I feel bad and disappointment because he is accusing me of using drugs or whatever and trying to ruin my name in boxing. People know I have been successful through God and hard work.
"Maybe he is afraid of me or maybe is not ready for this fight. I am disappointed at what he is accusing me of. I really feel bad but I have no anger toward him. This is boxing. That's his style. We cannot change that because we are different.
"It has never been in boxing before that a fighter changed the rules. It is the fighter's job to fight in the ring and it is the promoter's job and the commission's job to make the rules for the fight."
While Pacquiao is typically laid back about the fact the Mayweather fight isn't happening, his trainer Freddie Roach and promoter Bob Arum are both fuming.
Roach said: "We are not happy with Floyd Mayweather Jr's remarks. Manny wants to fight him in the future because of the remarks he made. Sometimes when Manny is shadowboxing, he will show me how Mayweather fights and how he will take care of the problem.
“I've never seen many do that before. He was trying to ruin our reputation with those allegations but we do want to fight him and we do want to knock him out."
Arum meanwhile added: "We will knock him out in court also. That lawsuit continues on and justice will prevail.
"You don't have to be geniuses to know what they were trying to do. They were trying to get into his Pacquiao's head. Get him completely discombobulated so he would be easy pickings for Mayweather and if they couldn't and he said no because of the bullying, Mayweather would get his wish and not have to fight Manny. Mayweather against Manny is a no-contest.
“Manny would wipe the ring with Floyd Mayweather."