Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao: Pacquiao sets Mayweather January deadline to agree fight

The world has been waiting six years to see the bout

Manny Pacquiao has demanded the Mayweather bout (Getty Images)

Manny Pacquiao has given Floyd Mayweather a deadline of until the end of the month to agree to fight him this year, with 2 May the proposed date of the bout the world has been waiting to see for six years.

"My promoter and I, we've already agreed to the terms and conditions of whatever he wants," Pacquiao told the Los Angeles Times. "We're just waiting on the signed contract from him. I don't have an idea [if it will happen].

Floyd Mayweather, still undefeated after 47 fights (Getty Images)

"We just want to make that fight happen - for the sake of the fans, for the sake of the millions of people around the world who are excited to see that fight.

"I just want to prove who's really No 1. If the fight is on and he beats me, I'm really convinced he is No 1. If not, I'm No 1."

A Mayweather camp “insider” had been quoted as saying “they’re putting it together”, but there has been no word from the Money Man himself.