Pacquiao has surgery, faces lawsuits and ... maybe, Mayweather again

In the press conference after the Mayweather fight, Manny Pacquio
revealed the injury to his right shoulder.

FILIPINO fighter Manny Pacquiao had an operation May 6 to fix a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder. The prognosis is that the surgery went well and he would be ready to fight again in nine months or a year.

Floyd Mayweather has a fight coming up in September and vowed to retire if he was to keep his record a perfect 49-0 to match boxing legend Rocky Marciano. However, he kept his option open for a rematch with Pacquiao to actually exceed the Marciano record.

UPDATE: Mayweather closes the door for a rematch, calls Manny a sore loser

On another front, Pacquiao is being sued by some of his fans who bet heavily for the fighter in his historic match with Mayweather. The fight last weekend raised the richest purse ever for a boxing match and certainly was one of the most heavily anticipated but it was far from the "fight of the century" that boxing fans had expected.

The fight showed a slow and plodding Pacquiao who looked like a shadow of his former self. After the fight, Pacquiao's camp revealed that the boxer fought with a shoulder injured during training.

Pacquiao did not properly disclose his injury to the Nevada State Athletic Commission, which could fine and suspend him for allegedly lying on his prefight medical questionnaire. 

Had Pacquiao disclosed the injury when it happened, about 2½ weeks before the fight, the commission doctor would have worked with Pacquiao's team on a treatment plan and likely would have allowed him to receive an anti-inflammatory shot on fight night. But because the commission said it did not know about Pacquiao's injury until a couple of hours before the bout, it denied his request for the shot.

In Los Angeles, Dr. Neal ElAttrache, a famed orthopedic surgeon who performed similar surgeries on Kobe Bryant and Tom Brady, said he could not be "more pleased with the results." It was a 90-minute outpatient surgery, so Pacquiao did not stay overnight.