Floyd's best option at this moment in time...

I think everyone, including myself, were surprised that Floyd got jail time. Not that 2-3 months will hurt him at all, but it was a bit surprising, and I think everyone tends to overreact a bit when it's celebrities that are thrown into jail, even for a short amount of time. Assumming that Floyd does get time cutoff of his sentence (could be 22-30 days according to judicial officials), Floyd will most likely be released the first week of March. May is now pretty much impossible, June is stretching it a bit probably, but July is wide open. It would give Floyd 4 months before a fight in July. It would give him a month to acclimate himself to the gym and boxing again, a month to announce and promote whatever his next fight would be, and 2 months to train. If he fought in July, it'd be about 9 1/2-10 months since he last fought, which is a lot less than the 14 and 21 month layoffs before. I'd expect him to fight about the same, especially since it seems he was training in the gym leading up to his jail sentence as well. Therefore, if the Sergio Martinez rumors are true about him being interested in fighting at 154-155, than that's the route I think Floyd should take in July. It would give Sergio anough time to fight Macklin in March, and than 4 months later he could fight Floyd. Dibella has already indicated that Sergio will probably fight in the Spring and again in the summer. And if Sergio isn't going to happen, he could fight the Berto-Ortiz II winner at least as well. Than, if all goes well, he and Pacquiao could still fight in November or December. That's the best option at this point I think, realistically. I don't see Bob Arum waiting for Floyd to get out of jail to resume negotiations, he said he'd like to see Manny fight in the spring, and I doubt Manny will tkae a one year layoff before going into a fight with Floyd. It would give Manny time to fight either Marquez, Cotto, or Bradley in June.