Manny Pacquiao is fighting ... it's not Floyd Mayweather, so I don't really care.

As much as I don't enjoy Brett Favre waffling over whether or not to retire (he's not), I'm getting more and more sick of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. not fighting each other.

Mayweather made boxing relevant again to my generation with the show "24/7" on HBO. His brash personality and unabashed cockiness made us love him or hate him, and gave us a rooting interest in a sport that I personally hadn't watched since I was real young and Mike Tyson was still the heavyweight champion.

Along the way we learned that Mayweather, for all his faults outside of the ring, was perfect inside of it.

Then Manny Pacquiao started beating big names. He became the anti-Mayweather, fighting more for national pride and for the sport itself rather than money and glamor.

If ever there were two athletes more destined to clash for the right to be crowned the best pound-for-pound in the world, it's these two.

But then began the dodging. The money's not right. Then the dope testing isn't right. Now Mayweather has missed a deadline with Pacquiao's people to set up a fight on Nov. 13.

Instead, Pacquiao will face off against Antonio Margarito in three-and-a-half months, who can't fight in California because he tried to put plaster on his tape for his last scheduled fight with Shane Mosley at the Staples Center in LA.

Though that's going to be an interesting sub-plot, and hopefully another series of "24/7," there's no way I'm even going to consider ordering that fight like I did with the UFC heavyweight superfight against Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin.

If it were Manny-Mayweather, I would. Simple as that.

Until that fight happens, boxing is going to lose the momentum it's built over the past few years.

And now that it's going to be more than three months before we can even start talking about it again, it might be too late, anyway.