Manny Pacquiao wants Floyd Mayweather rematch this year if he ends retirement

 Manny Pacquiao wants a slice of Floyd Mayweather's lucrative exhibition bout business by staging a rematch between the pair this year.

Mayweather has been making millions by competing in non-competitive exhibition bouts which are not scored and make no mark on his 50-0 record. He faced Tenshin Nasukawa in 2018 before taking on YouTube star Logan Paul last year and former sparring partner Don Moore in May.

He retired from the sport as a professional in 2017 after beating Conor McGregor, but has continued to make huge amounts of money through these shorter bouts. His match with Paul garnered over a million pay-per-view buys in America, and was one of the biggest boxing events last year.

Meanwhile, Pacquiao kept fighting professionally until a defeat to Yordenis Ugas last summer, when he decided to hang up the gloves and dedicate himself to his presidential run in the Philippines. Now, according to his manager, he wants to make a rematch with Mayweather under exhibition rules.

Planet Sport reports that Sean Gibbons, head of MP Promotions, said of a possible rematch: "Let's go. [I] would love to see it but Mayweather wants none of this smoke due to his ego. Senator Pacquiao would love an exhibition, if he was to return it would be this year - but that is a big 'if'."

Mayweather was taken the distance by Paul last summer, with the YouTuber allowed to tip the scales 35lb heavier than his pound-for-pound great opponent. Then in his bout with Moore last month in Abu Dhabi, the boxer made comical moves throughout, including dancing and taking the ring girls' cards between rounds.