Manny Pacquiao responded early today to the collapse of negotiations for his scheduled junior-welterweight fight against England’s Ricky Hatton on May 2 in Las Vegas, casting blame on Hatton’s promoter, Richard Schaefer, and urging the British boxer to fight him “without the middlemen.”

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