Pacquiao Says Ball in Mayweather's Court To Announce

By Edward Chaykovsky

If and when an announcement is made, Manny Pacquiao says there is an agreement between both sides that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will be the one to make it. The two sides are negotiating the terms and many are expecting that a deal will be made or fall apart in the coming days.

In recent years, Mayweather has announced his fights on the social networks. The target date is May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The negotiations intensified when Mayweather and Pacquiao meet face to face a few weeks ago in Miami, when both boxers attended an NBA game between the Heat and the Bucks. After the game, they met at Pacquiao's hotel suite for over an hour. Two weeks later, Mayweather reached out to Pacquiao on the phone to discuss the fight details.

"We just talked that this fight needs to happen. The negotiation is ongoing. He said he wants the fight to happen. Actually, we both agreed on everything. Maybe we should just wait for the announcement so we dont violate anything as agreed, we don't have the right to announce it," Pacquiao said to reporters.

According to Pacquiao, everything has been agreed upon between the fighters. But reportedly there are still some loose ends that need to be tied up between the networks, HBO/Time Warner (who have Pacquiao) and Showtime/CBS (who have Mayweather).