By Mark Vester

When speaking about his upcoming fight against Jose Armando Santa Cruz, taking place on the undercard to Cotto-Mosley at New York's Madison Square Garden, Ring Magazine/WBC-interim lightweight champion Joel Casamayor (34-3-1, 21KOs) was asked about his various interviews where he's publicly called out Manny Pacquiao to a fight.

While Casamayor denies the existence of any bad blood, he does state that Pacquiao is a good "B class" fighter who will provide him with little or no competition if they fought.

"(There is) no bad blood. The bad blood is that people are saying he’s the best pound for pound fighter around my division – the junior lightweight division. I say hold up there, I’m the best pound for pound fighter around any one of these weight classes," Casamayor said.

"And I just want to prove to the world that – Pacquiao is a good fighter, he’s a strong guy. He throws a lot of punches but there’s a class B and a class A and I’m that class A. I want to prove that to the world because everyone feels like Pacquiao is a killer and I feel like it’d be easy work for me. That’s the reason he's ducking and hiding."

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