Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer and president Oscar De La Hoya (AP)Little could be better for the future health of boxing if the little nugget buried inside a Los Angeles Times news story bears fruit.

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer told the Times' Lance Pugmire that he's spoken to Top Rank president Todd duBoef regarding a potential Juan Manuel Marquez-Erik Morales fight at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on June 14.

A Marquez-Morales fight should have happened years ago, but that's beside the point in terms of the bigger picture here.

The fact that representatives of the two warring companies are talking about working together again should be cause to celebrate for anyone who wants to see good fights.

Top Rank president Todd duBoef (Chris Farina/Top Rank)They are, by far, the two largest and most successful promoters in the world and they have the largest stable of fighters. But for most of the last five years, and a lot of the last 10, they've refused to do business together because of feuds that are so difficult to unravel, a full explanation would take longer than Chris Berman's

TV host Mario Lopez interviews Manny Pacquiao at his home regarding his controversial statements (AP)If Manny Pacquiao loses, or even struggles to a win, when he fights Timothy Bradley for the World Boxing Organization welterweight title on June 9 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, boxing writers around the world will point to hubbub of the last three days as the reason.

Distractions, they'll say. The controversy surrounding Pacquiao's comments to Examiner.com regarding same-sex marriage will have taken his focus off his preparation for the bout, they'll point out.

Pacquiao is one of the two best fighters in the world, alongside Floyd Mayweather Jr., and super human things are expected of each of them. Pacquiao's better than a 4-1 favorite to beat Bradley, who himself is one of the world's 10 best fighters, and anything less than a dominant win won't be seen as enough.

The truth is, the controversy isn't even a blip on Pacquiao's radar. It will have zero impact upon the way he fights. If he loses, it will be because either Bradley was better on that night or that Pacquiao is

Boxer Manny Pacquiao (R) speaks with Pastor Jeric Soriano before a training session (Chris Farina/Top Rank)

It's not too often a boxer blasts the President of the United States, but it's also not too common that an active fighter gets elected to Congress. But boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao, a freshman congressman from Sarangani Province in the Philippines, laid into President Obama because of Obama's support for gay marriage.

Pacquiao, who defends his World Boxing Organization welterweight title against Timothy Bradley on June 9 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, is a devout Catholic who has brought a spiritual advisor, Pastor Jeric Soriano, with him from the Philippines to Los Angeles. He visited Obama in the Oval Office last year, discussing basketball and boxing with the president.

In an interview with the National Conservative Examiner, Pacquiao criticized Obama's stance as an attack on the will of God.

"God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

"It should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar