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Jun 8

Manny Pacquiao to fight Timothy Bradley with Floyd Mayweather Jr. on everybody's mind

LAS VEGAS For a champion boxer, every round of every fight is overtime of Game 7 in the finals.

It's even tougher for Manny Pacquiao because beating an unbeaten, in-his-prime opponent such as Timothy Bradley won't nearly be enough, no matter how good he may look Saturday when he defends his welterweight title at the MGM Grand Garden.

He may be fighting Bradley, but he'll be ceaselessly compared to Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Did Pacquiao look as good against Bradley as Mayweather did May 5 in a win over Miguel Cotto? Did Pacquiao sell as many pay-per-views as the 1.5 million Mayweather tallied against Cotto? Does he deserve a 50-50 purse split for a potential bout with Mayweather?

Every move he makes in the ring, every word he utters at the post-fight news conference, every dollar he brings to the till, will be examined against the backdrop of what Mayweather did, said and earned.

Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley Jr. are set to fight in Las Vegas on Saturday. (Reuters)The idea that Pacquiao needs to do anything other than defeat Bradley and retain his title to land a fight with Mayweather is ludicrous. Mayweather needs Pacquiao and Pacquiao needs Mayweather. It would only be the richest fight of all time.

The problem they face, other than the obvious that Mayweather is serving time at the Clark County Detention Center after pleading guilty to domestic violence charges is that it seems the inevitable slow decline because of age has begun for each of them.

Mayweather is 35 and was hit more by Cotto than he'd been in any fight in a decade, perhaps more. Pacquiao is 33 and coming off a fight in which he was lucky to win.

In Bradley, he'll be fighting a man five years younger with 30 fewer fights. Most significantly, Bradley doesn't have the wear and tear on him that Pacquiao has.

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