Pacquiao won’t wait for Mayweather

MANILA, Philippines – With Floyd Mayweather’s repeated disinterest in a fight between him and Manny Pacquiao, life goes on for the Filipino ring icon.

Pacquiao and trainer Freddie Roach have gone tired of waiting for Mayweather to step up and engage in a bout that could go down as the richest in boxing history.

Pacquiao himself just turned to humor when faced with the familiar Mayweather question.

"Who's that?" he told reporters at The Venetian Macao in Macau, China, on Monday, where he and Chris Algieri graced the first of several press conferences that are part of their two-week worldwide media tour to promote their Nov. 23 fight.

Pacquiao is expected to retire from boxing in 2016, and he is prepared to spend his remaining fighting years without the thought of Mayweather. The undefeated American faces Marcos Maidana in a rematch next month, and only Mayweather knows what will happen after that.

The fighting congressman insists the ball is still on Mayweather’s court, as Pacquiao has been repeatedly expressing desire to face the pound-for-pound king.

"The possibility to fight with him, you know, the question is not for us," Pacquiao said in a report by news agency AFP. "It's for them because any time we are willing to fight, any time. I think that question belongs to them, their camp."

Mayweather previously tweeted he will be making a “surprise” announcement after his rematch with Maidana, and some boxing observers speculate that it will be about a megabuck clash with Pacquiao.

Roach, for his part, said the waiting game is over for them.

"We can't waste our time waiting for him," the trainer said in the same AFP report. "We've done everything we could to make that fight happen. It's like, we're available if he's interested in it, but again we can't sit around waiting for him."