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Pacquiao has "fingers crossed" for Mayweather showdown

Manny Pacquaio reportedly broke the nose of his sparring partner in training for his fight with Chris Algieri © Getty Images

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Manny Pacquiao says he is keeping his fingers crossed for a fight with welterweight rival Floyd Mayweather Jr next year.

Mayweather Jr has two fights left on his current Showtime deal, after which he will retire. While Mayweather has yet to reveal his plans for 2015, the American's father indicated a fight with Pacquiao will happen - and the Filipino is keen to see it come to fruition.

"Hopefully that fight will happen by next year," Pacquiao told AFP. "I'm crossing my fingers that that fight will happen but right now my mind is already set to focus on my next fight with Algieri. I think the time to talk about that issue is after the fight."

The pair have long been at loggerheads, with Mayweather recently posting pictures of Pacquiao's losses to social media to which 'Pacman' responded by calling for his rival to stop "blabbing" and face him.

Negotiations over a potential fight have also hit stumbling blocks beforehand, with both fighters disagreeing over their respective approaches to random blood testing.

In the meantime, Pacquiao is in training ahead of his November 22 bout with Chris Algieri in Macau, what will be the fourth defence of his WBO world title.

"I'm not taking this fight lightly because I know his hunger and he's young and he wants to win the fight, but I will not let that happen," Pacquiao said.

"I'm not thinking about the knockout because it will make me confident and careless. If the knockout comes it will come but my focus is to make sure that 100 percent condition and killer instinct is there, the aggressiveness is there, so that's my focus in training."

That aggressiveness is certainly evident after reports emerged Pacquiao had broken the nose of sparring partner Viktor Posol, the WBC No.1 ranked super-lightweight contender, during training. Trainer Freddie Roach appeared to confirm the incident during the fighter's promotional tour of Hong Kong

"Manny broke Postol's nose three days ago. But Postol's okay. I train him. He's a fighter, he's a tough kid and he's not going home," Roach told the South China Morning Post. The fight with Algieri is firmly on the mind of Pacquiao, who also indicated that he has no immediate plans to retire from boxing.

"I'm not thinking yet about retirement. I will continue my boxing career, the journey will continue in my boxing career and we'll see what happens," Pacquiao said.

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