By Mark Vester
According to trainer Freddie Roach, who is in New York with WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan, negotiations for a Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight is expected to begin this week. Roach told reporters the negotiations could begin as early as Tuesday once the elections in the Philippines, where Pacquiao is running for a congressional seat, are completed.
Roach told BoxingScene.com's Lem Satterfield on Sunday that Mayweather is the opponent of choice, but he doesn't have any problems with facing the Plan B opponent Antonio Margarito.
The biggest issue in making the fight is Mayweather's demand for random Olympic-style drug tests. The last time they tried to make a deal, earlier this year, the two fighters could not agree on the cut-off date for tests.
Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank said earlier today that Manny's political run will not effect his return to the ring. Arum told a radio show in the Philippines that Pacquiao will return in November against Mayweather or Margarito.
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