At 40! Boxing ‘Senator’ Pacquiao beats Adrien Broner on points to retain welterweight title

Pacquiao answers a handful of perfunctory questions from Showtime’s Jim Gray about a fight that wasn’t particularly interesting, either on paper or in how it played out.

Then, inevitably, the conversation inevitably turns to a rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr, the specter of which has loomed over this promotion from jump street.

Does Manny want it?

“Tell (Floyd) to come back to the ring and then we will fight,” Pacquiao says. “I’m willing to fight him again, to fight Floyd Mayweather.”

Showtime’s Gray then asks Mayweather if he will accept the challenge as a camera films him in the first row: “A simple nod will do on the monitor.”

Mayweather looks away from the camera. This is pure WWE camp and it’s a bit depressing to be honest. I can’t imagine there was anything Floyd saw in Manny’s performance tonight that suggests a rematch would play out any different than their first fight. But maybe that’s the point.