What would encourage Floyd Mayweather Jr. to pay a visit to Manny Pacquiao’s Hollywood gym?

Perhaps a rematch of the richest one-day sporting event in history?

Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that the unbeaten and retired Mayweather (49-0) has paid two visits to Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood this month, one in which Mayweather and Roach talked pleasantly without addressing the million-dollar question.

Which is, will either of the retired former multidivision champions fight again?


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“Very unusual now how Mayweather’s been here twice,” Roach said. “He wanted to watch sparring the other day. I wasn’t here. But the first time he came by, he came upstairs and saw me. Very nice talk, yes. Me and him are OK.”

Roach, a former boxer who has known Mayweather since he was a child, presented him with a gift — a speed bag painted with Mayweather’s face that Pacquiao was supposed to punch during his training for their May 2015 super-fight that generated a record 4.6 million pay-per-view buys and more than $600 million in total revenue.


Pacquiao refused to hit the bag out of respect, Roach said.

“I thought Mayweather would like it. He did, so I gave it to him,” Roach said. “We talked a little bit — not about the fight. Not one word about fighting.

“He has a home here now, and this might be the only gym he knows around here,” Roach said. “But it’s interesting. I keep waiting for him to bring [a Pacquiao rematch] up, but he hasn’t, so I don’t.”

When he previously participated on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” Mayweather received permission to do some early-morning training at Wild Card, Roach said.


1 / 57 Floyd Mayweather Jr. celebrates after defeating Manny Pacquiao for the WBC welterweight championship at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 2, 2015. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 2 / 57 Floyd Mayweather Jr. lands a punch in the eighth round against Manny Pacquiao during their welterweight title fight on May 2, 2015. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 3 / 57 Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao trade blows during their welterweight title fight on May 2, 2015. (John Locher / Associated Press) 4 / 57 Floyd Mayweather Jr. enjoys the moment after beating Manny Pacquiao. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 5 / 57 Manny Pacquiao salutes the crowd after fighting 12 rounds with Floyd Mayweather on Saturday night. 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Promoter Bob Arum says Pacquiao will finish his career with four fights this year, none of them against the retired Mayweather. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 22 / 57 FLoyd Mayweather Jr. lands a punch to Manny Pacquaio in the fourth round Saturday in Las Vegas. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 23 / 57 The crowd watches the fight at MGM Grand. (Eric Jamison / Associated Press) 24 / 57 Floyd Mayweather lands a right against Manny Pacquiao in their May 2, 2015, fight. (Isaac Brekken / Associated Press) 25 / 57 Pacquiao takes aim. (John Locher / Associated Press) 26 / 57 Mayweather in his corner. (Al Bello / Getty Images) 27 / 57 Close-range fighting. (Isaac Brekken / Associated Press) 28 / 57 Pacquiao ducks to avoid a Mayweather left. (FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP/Getty Images) 29 / 57 Mayweather ducks. (Al Bello / Getty Images) 30 / 57 Pacquiao punches Mayweather near the ropes. (Eric Jamison / Associated Press) 31 / 57 The fighters get more aggressive. (John Locher / Associated Press) 32 / 57 Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao trade blows. (John Locher / Associated Press) 33 / 57 Manny Pacquiao in his corner. (John Locher / Associated Press) 34 / 57 The fighters in the ring in Round 1. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 35 / 57 Floyd Mayweather Jr. throws a punch in the first round. (Al Bello / Getty Images) 36 / 57 Manny Pacquiao throws a punch in the first round. (FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP/Getty Images) 37 / 57 Manny Pacquiao walks toward the ring. (Al Bello / Getty Images) 38 / 57 Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the ring before the fight. (Al Bello / Getty Images) 39 / 57 Manny Pacquiao fans gather in L.A.'s Filipinotown. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) 40 / 57 Jamie Foxx sings the national anthem. (FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP/Getty Images) 41 / 57 Leo Santa Cruz celebrates his majority decision over Jose Cayetano in a featherweight bout Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena. 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Granado in a super-middleweight fight, which was the first on the Mayweather-Pacquiao undercard Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) 54 / 57 Vasyl Lomachenko lands a right to the face of Gamalier Rodriguez during their featherweight title fight on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. (John Locher / Associated Press) 55 / 57 Vasyl Lomachenko tries to slip a punch by Gamalier Rodriguez during their featherweight title fight in Las Vegas. (John Locher / Associated Press) 56 / 57 Gamalier Rodriguez gets a standing eight count from referee Robert Byrd after being knocked down by Vasyl Lomachenko during their featherweight title fight Saturday. (John Locher / Associated Press) 57 / 57 Vasyl Lomachenko celebrates his ninth-round knockout victory over Gamalier Rodriguez in their featherweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. (Eric Jamison / Associated Press)

As for Pacquiao, who defeated Timothy Bradley by unanimous decision April 9 in what he said would be his final fight and who was proclaimed a senator in the Philippines this week, Roach said he has yet to be instructed about what the 37-year-old former eight-division champion will do.

“They’ll call me and let me know what’s going to happen,” Roach said. “Manny and [his manager Michael] Koncz both told me after the last fight that they do feel strongly about trying to get Mayweather one more time. I think that’s the only fight he’d come back for.

“He could come back for Canelo [Alvarez], too, but he’s not as big a draw as Mayweather-Pacquiao II. One more fight, I would like to see it, but does he have time to do it as a senator? I’m sure there’s a lot more work to do. But I know he has at least one more [fight] in him. He showed flashes of the old Manny last fight.”


While Pacquiao also has mentioned the possibility of participating in the Summer Games now that professionals have been approved to participate in Olympic boxing, the Mayweather fight is obviously a greater challenge.

Justin Fortune, Pacquiao’s conditioning coach, said Tuesday there could be a rematch of the lackluster first fight. In that bout, Mayweather out-boxed Pacquiao, who complained afterward that in the fourth round, he aggravated a right shoulder injury suffered in training camp that required post-fight surgery.

“Manny with two good hands beats Floyd,” Fortune said. “He had one hand. He was coming back in the fourth round when the shoulder went out. Manny is very strong, and he needs both shoulders because he throws punches in bunches.”

Fortune said even though it would take away from Pacquiao’s public-service commitments, Fortune could envision Pacquiao returning for a Mayweather fight with the support of his countrymen because of the financial benefits.


“Manny’s whole deal is to help people, which is why this fight can happen,” Fortune said. “If this [Mayweather] fight happens, and [Pacquiao] earns millions and millions, he can use it to help his people. That’s why he’d fight again, the sole reason. People can say that’s stupid. No, it’s admirable.

“He has enough money for his family, for himself. If he fights again, it’s solely to help people.”

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