It’s not going to be Mayweather vs. Pacquiao or Pacquiao vs. Cotto, but instead Mayweather vs. Cotto.

After it looked like Manny Pacquiao would be facing Miguel Cotto in a rematch in the summer, Floyd Mayweather’s team stepped in and pulled the okie doke.

Earlier today, the Nevada State Athletic Commission granted Mayweather a one-fight license to fight on May 5th. Mayweather said his opponent would be Miguel Cotto.

Mayweather is schedule to report to jail on June 1, but mentioned in the hearing that he’s been going to counseling and disagrees that he did what he was charged with. He said that the reason he plead guilty was to save his kids from having to stand trial.

Miguel Cotto’s contract with Top Rank has expired, but our own Duan thinks that he’ll be right back with Bob Arum after this fight. Though, if I’m Arum, I probably feel a little bothered by the fact that Cotto pulled out on him to fight his nemesis, rather than fighting Pacquiao in a big money fight. Now, Arum and Pacquiao may have to turn to Tim Bradley as an opponent, which is a tremendously harder sell than Cotto.

Jason aka @dadrrtywhyteboi and I are back to talk about many things on the latest edition of FGB Radio.

We recorded the show very soon after my beloved San Francisco 49ers lost in the NFC Championship Game to the New York Giants so we talk about football for the first few minutes, but quickly thereafter, we segue into talking about the top three fights on the 2nd UFC on Fox show, which is this weekend. We talk about Sonnen vs. Bisping being a true number one contender’s fight, Weidman being thrusted into the spotlight, and the funny circumstances between Rashad Evans and Jon Jones.

We then discuss the 2012 edition of the Royal Rumble which is also this weekend. We talk about the few guys who actually have a chance to win the Rumble and wonder if there’s a secret guy out there who we’re missing. We talk Punk/Johnny Ace and how Dolph Ziggler is kind of just a third wheel in the angle as well as Daniel Bryan and how he’s doing as champion.

Lastly, we talk about the heavily rumored rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, going through most of the possible guys who Pacquiao could even fight.

Check it out and let us know what you think.

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This was the last episode that was broadcasted after Ward beat Froch in November.

One day before the fight, they had footage of Ward feeling out the ring in an empty arena, right out of Rocky.

Ward tells Antonio Tarver that he’s never seen Froch defend himself on the inside. He walks by Froch and gives him a little icy stare while Froch smiles it off. Ward’s wife says that Froch is feeling himself a bit too much.

After the fight, Bernard Hopkins told Ward that his legacy starts from this fight on.

Froch was very earnest in defeat. He told his girlfriend that Ward was just too slick for him. He also said he felt like he didn’t hit him with his left hand at all.

Bad Left Hook, via The RING, says that as soon as Monday, Bob Arum may announce Manny Pacquiao’s next fight, which will be a rematch against Miguel Cotto in June. A few weeks ago, Arum said Pacquiao’s next opponent would be one of four men, with those four being Cotto, Lamont Peterson, Timothy Bradley, or Juan Manuel Marquez.

I don’t think anyone really believed that Floyd Mayweather was in the picture for May.

It seems like a ho-hum fight for Pacquiao, but I don’t think it is. I’ve said before that I thought Cotto fought Pacquiao at the wrong time the first time. He was dealing with things inside his camp as well as the aftermath of losing to Antonio Margarito and the thought that Margarito cheated. After getting the Margarito monkey off his back, I think this is the right time for Cotto to be fighting Pacquiao.

Add to that, Pacquiao’s first really average performance since becoming the top fighter (or 2 if you think Mayweather is still the top fighter) in boxing, and you might have something.

Top Rank is going to have to promote this as Miguel Cotto’s time to shine in order for it to really do huge business, but with Pacquiao’s name value alone, it’s going to be a very successful fight.

From GP Productions:

Early Tuesday, Floyd Mayweather went to Facebook and Twitter to call out Manny Pacquiao. The fighter recently had his jail sentence suspended until June, allowing him to fight on the previously scheduled May 5th date at the MGM Grand. However, Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum wants the date to be June 9th, per Dan Rafael.

The problem with the June 9th date is that Mayweather will have already reported to jail by then. In the meantime, the two rumored Mayweather opponents are Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, both good young fighters, but nowhere in Mayweather’s league.

Today, Mayweather posted the following photo to his Twitter page with the words, “I’m ready to put my belt up. What about you Manny Pacquiao? Let’s make history.”