Question of the day: Will there ever be a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight? {Updated} | The Fabulous Forum | Los Angeles Times

Reporters from around Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Check back throughout the day for more responses and feel free to leave a comment of your own.

Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times

This is an unknown for now, requiring the ability to read a mind. The mind needing to be read isFloyd Mayweather Jr.’s, a skill that borders on impossible, even for those close to the unbeaten boxer.

For now, we’ve been told Mayweather is in vacation mode, enjoying the lifestyle he earned by pummelingShane Mosleyon May 1 and earning $25 million, which we hear he is happily spending.

Mayweather clearly wasn’t compelled to act by the Friday midnight deadline set by Manny Pacquiao’spromoter,Bob Arum, to express interest in the proposed mega-fight, and now Arum is moving his Filipino star toward an alternate fight Nov. 13 againstAntonio MargaritoorMiguel Cotto.

Of course, the money that Mayweather and Pacquiao will generate by fighting each other will one day prove too impossible to reject. Mayweather’s spending habits will force him to recognize this, Pacquiao’s fear of a blood test will mysteriously vanish, and the super-fight will have more than a year of crazed fan anxiety to maximize pay-per-view dollars and ensure a live-gate sellout no matter how much tickets cost.

Check back early next year, with a fight date in place by the end of May 2011.

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