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Source: Joseph Pimentel, abs-cbnnews.com

-- If you ask Manny Pacquiao, there won’t be a mega fight between him and former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr.

"I don't think it'll happen," Pacquiao said in an interview with LATimes.com and Associated Press. "I'm sure he doesn't want to fight me."

The current pound-for-pound champion said that for Mayweather, who recently outmatched Pacquiao's nemesis, Juan Manuel Marquez, it’s all about the money.

"With Floyd, boxing is like a business," Pacquiao said.

"He doesn't care about the people around him watching. He doesn't care if the fight is boring, as long as the fight is over and he gets the money, it's good.”

Boxing fans are eagerly anticipating a match up between the two fighters who are both regarded as among the best in the boxing business.

For that to happen, however, two major factors would have to be settled.

First, Pacquiao will have to go through welterweight champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico in their “Fire Power” match up on November 14.

Second, Mayweather would have to stop pricing himself “out of the fight”.

"I think he's going to negotiate so hard he's going to price himself out of the fight. Let's face it, its 50 - 50. That's the only way the fight is going to happen. If he asks for more, we know he doesn't want to fight us,” said Pacquaio’s coach Freddie Roach.

For Pacquiao, boxing is not just business. It’s about giving his audience their money’s worth.

"I want the people to be happy. If I [was] in the audience, I'm going to watch the boxing because it's a good fight," he said.