By Mark Vester

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, promoter of WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, is not confident that a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. will ever come off.

The combination of Mayweather's mounting legal problems with the alleged assault on the mother of his children, the possibility that Floyd's uncle/trainer Roger Mayweather will go to prison as punishment for his own pending assault case, the ongoing defamation suit filed by Pacquiao against Mayweather, and the recent racist rant made by Mayweather - has caused serious doubt in Arum's mind that a fight between the two most popular fighters in the sport will ever happen.

Besides all of that, Arum still believes that Mayweather is avoiding a fight with Pacquiao to protect his undefeated record. Pacquiao is set to face Antonio Margarito on November 13 at Cowboys Stadium in Texas. Mayweather is not going to fight again until sometime next year.

"With all his legal problems and after that ridiculous, racist rant of his (the infamous video), I don't know if it happens. It certainly looks like Floyd doesn't want to fight him. I just think he would feel a lot of emotional trauma if he lost his zero," Arum told the Orange County Register .

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