As soon as referee Kenny Bayless stopped Manny Pacquiao from beating Miguel Cotto senseless boxing fans started calling for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to take on the current pound-for-pound champion. A Mayweather-Pacquiao fight will reportedly bring in $40-$50 million for each fighter at the same time giving fight fans the classic match-up they’ve wanted. A potential sticking point in all Mayweather-Pacquiao talk is Floyd’s relationship with Top Rank top man Bob Arum. Mayweather previously said he’d never fight Pacquiao if Arum was involved but that changed late Thursday when Floyd’s team approached Top Rank about the super fight. Read the full story

Manny Pacquaio cemented his place as pound-for-pound champion of boxing with a 12 round beat down of the bigger Miguel Cotto. In the first round it looked like Cotto’s size and power would be too much for Pacquiao to handle as I thought the fight would go. But Pacquaio dropped Cotto in the third and fourth rounds, and by the sixth round Manny had Cotto figured out and was stalking him around the ring. Referee Kenny Bayless mercifully stopped the fight in the 12th round to prevent further damage to Cotto’s face. Read the full story

Police detained former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson at the Los Angeles International Airport on the suspicion that he got rough with a paparazzi. I say good for Mike Tyson. Read the full story

Floyd Mayweather Jr. handled the smaller, older Juan Manuel Marquez in a September tuneup fight that he hopes lands him the Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto winner. If not, Mayweather can fall back on Shane Mosley. Or retire again. Read the full story

Vitali Klitschko landed rights and lefts on the face of a determined Chris Arreola for 10 rounds before the referee stopped the WBC Heavyweight title bout. Klitschko improved his record to 38-2 while beating down another contender. Read the full story

Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones Jr. are going to get it on sometime in the first quarter of 2010. The rematch comes 16 years after Jones won an unanimous decision over Hopkins for the IBF Middleweight Championship. Read the full story

I caught up with Jim Lampley of HBO Boxing to talk about the Mayweather-Marquez fight and what’s next for Money May. Along the way we mixed in Chris Arreola, Vitali Klitschko, and Lamps gave his thoughts on Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame speech. Read the full story