Reporting from Las Vegas - Boxing's Super Bowl is halfway home now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. so thoroughly dismissed the lighter Juan Manuel Marquez by unanimous decision Saturday.
The participants in the future mega-match, however, remain a work in progress.
HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg says "there's an anticipation that [Mayweather] will fight the [Manny] Pacquiao-[Miguel] Cotto winner," a fight that comes Nov. 14.
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