Floyd Mayweather Jr. is still open to fighting Manny Pacquiao down the road after all.
However, the undefeated American boxer demands the Filipino slugger follow his stipulations before any mega-fight negotiation could happen.
In an interview with Yahoo Sports boxing writer Kevin Iole, Mayweather said he will never fight the eight-time division world champion unless he signed up with ayweather Promotions.
"I'm just letting you know that he's [Pacquiao] not getting a fight with me. The only way he's getting a fight with me is if he signs with Mayweather Promotions. He's got to give me fights with Mayweather Promotions. If he don't give me no fights under Mayweather Promotions, then he's not getting the fight. That's how it's working now," said Mayweather, who's scheduled to fight Canelo Alvarez on September 14 at MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Pacquiao-Mayweather rivalry has been re-ignited again after the Grand Rapids native called the former pound-for-pound king a "Has-been" mainly because he lost his last two fights, one of which was a sixth-round TKO at the hands of Juan Manuel Marquez.
Pacquiao, who's also set to return in the ring in November against hard-hitting Brandon 'Bam Bam' Rios in Macau, fired back at Mayweather and challenged the five-division champion to fight him instead.
Pacquiao and Mayweather repeatedly engaged in several talks before but all that collapsed because of difference in shares of the fight purse and the Money Team's demand to conduct an Olympic style of drug testing on the Pac-Man.
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