Mayweather willing to fight Pacquiao after Manny's surgery, says report

Floyd Mayweather is willing to have a rematch with Manny Pacquiao a year after the Filipino boxer has shoulder surgery to repair his right rotator cuff, espn.com has reported.

"I will fight him in a year after his surgery," Mayweather said in a text message to ESPN's Stephen A. Smith.

Mayweather remained unbeaten and improved his professional boxing record to 48-0 when he defeated Pacquiao in Las Vegas over the weekend.

Pacquiao earlier told GMA News that he wanted a rematch with Mayweather.

"Kung ako gusto ko mag-rematch.... Ewan ko sa kanya kung gusto niya mag-rematch," Pacquiao said.

Mayweather had been criticized over the past several years for supposedly trying to avoid a fight against the Filipino boxer.

It took five years of on-and-off negotiations between the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps before the two boxers met in Miami and agreed to fight.

There was no rematch clause in the Pacquiao-Mayweather contract.

However, before he could fight Mayweather in a rematch, Pacquiao has to deal with his shoulder injury that could have been aggravated during the much-awaited bout at the MGM Grand.

There's also the possibility of Pacquiao facing sanctions for not disclosing his injury to the Nevada State Athletic Commission prior to his fight against Floyd Mayweather.

Francisco Aguilar, the chairman of the commission that oversaw this past weekend's mega-fight, told True.Ink that it is "something we’re looking at, and an issue we’ll be discussing with the Attorney General."

According to the report, Pacquiao could be guilty of perjury for not disclosing the injury on his pre-fight health checklist.

"In Nevada, perjury is considered a D-class felony, a crime punishable by as many as four years in prison, criminal guidelines state," the report added.

Aguilar said that the questionnaire is a measure to prevent injured boxers from continuing to fight, protecting them from themselves.

But in an interview on "Balitanghali" on Tuesday, Pacquiao denied hiding the injury from authorities.

"Binigay namin lahat nandun sa papers," he told Balitanghali in an interview. "Nandun 'yun sa papel nila 'yung finill-up-an namin 'yung papers."

It was unclear if Pacquiao himself filled up the form. Apart from him, the document was also signed by his adviser Michael Koncz.

Inadvertent mistake

Then in an interview with the New York Daily News, Koncz claimed he was the one who filled up the form.

"Number one, Manny didn't check the box. I checked it," Koncz said.

He said that he did not mean to hide the injury in the questionnaire, noting that the team had sent a list of medications to the commission for Pacquiao's use on fight night.

"It was just an inadvertent mistake. If I was trying to hide anything, would I have listed all the medications on the sheet that he intended to use? We weren't trying to hide anything. I just don't think I read the questionnaire correctly," said Koncz.

Pacquiao's camp is contending that they were surprised that the commission denied him the use of painkiller shots for the pain in his shoulder.

Pacquiao, who is set to undergo surgery within the week, said he decided to continue the fight despite the lack of medication because he did not want to let the fans down.

Koncz added that Pacquiao camp had disclosed the fighter's condition to the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), which was in charge of testing both fighters.

But USADA CEO Travis Tygart said Pacquiao's camp was to blame for the whole affair.

"If you're a caring person and Manny actually had an injury, while it has nothing to do with anti-doping, his camp let him down by inaccurately filling out the paperwork for the Nevada Commission in violation of its rules," said Tygart. — NB/ELR, GMA News