PROMOTER Bob Arum claims Floyd Mayweather Jnr is running scared of Manny Pacquiao.
Pacquiao and Mayweather are expected to collide next year in what promises to be one of the biggest fights in the history of the sweet science.
But Team Pacquiao fear Money may not be willing to put his undefeated record on the line against the man regarded as the best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet.
Arum said: "You have to understand Mayweather's psyche. Psychologically he may not be prepared to do this fight.
"Now this is me being an amateur psychologist but Mayweather is so tied up with the fact that nobody has beaten him — that he has a zero on his record.
"I don't know if he would be willing to go into the ring with anybody that could jeopardise that zero.
"He is afraid, terrified of losing that zero.
"That's why he's ducked Shane Mosely, Antonio Margarito and Miguel Cotto.
"And the question is will he duck Manny because he's so afraid of losing that zero?"
Mayweather, 32, still believes he is the world's greatest boxer and is confident he will put Pacquiao in his place.
But Pac-Man insists he will not chase a showdown with the arrogant American.
The Filipino said: "We are not pushing the fight — he should be the first to challenge me."
Arum shares Pacquiao's view that the new WBO welterweight champion can do without Mayweather.
But he is determined to give boxing fans the fight they so desperately want to see.
Arum added: "It's not so much that I give a damn whether this fight happens, because I don't, and for me it's not the greatest experience doing a promotion with Mayweather.
"But boxing is on such a roll now, not to do this fight would slow down considerably the momentum the sport has — and that would be wrong."
Source: thesun.co.uk
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