Boxers Manny Pacquiao (left) of the Philippines, and Antonio Margarito, of Mexico, hold up a WBC championship belt during a news conference, Wednesday, September 1, 2010, in New York. (AP)

Despite failing to reach an agreement with the other camp, Filipino boxing superstar and Sarangani province Congressman Manny Pacquiao still wants to face Floyd Mayweather, Jr. on top of the ring.

"I don't need him, he needs me," Pacquiao said of Mayweather, as quoted by the Associated Press, during a stop Wednesday in New York to promote his November 13 fight with Mexican Antonio Margarito in Arlington, Texas. "Compare my achievements in boxing to his achievements."

The pound-for-pound king looks really poised to settle all issues with the American boxing icon, with his legal case against the Mayweathers providing an interesting side note to what is expected to probably be the richest and most anticipated bout of the new decade.

Against the taller Margarito, Pacquiao will be gunning for a new mark in history as he eyes to claim his the World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight title — an eighth world title at an eighth weight division. The odds seem to go against Pacquiao in terms of the height and the weight, but his camp remains confident that the 31-year old champion will keep his winning streak running.

"Obviously I wanted Mayweather. I looked forward to that challenge," Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach said. "This fight (with Margarito) is the second best. He's a good opponent, but he's very beatable."

"You know, I really truly think boxing needs that fight to happen," Roach added. "All people want to know, 'When's he fighting Mayweather?' Wherever I go, that's what I'm asked. People will get pissed off if that fight didn't happen."

The fight was nearly made in January, then fell apart when Pacquiao refused Olympic-style drug testing  in the weeks leading up to the fight. But the newly minted member of the House of Representatives from the Philippines said he's even agreed to the strict blood testing in an effort to make the fight, but he hasn't heard from Mayweather's side why an agreement couldn't be reached.

"We agree with, you know, his demands," Pacquiao said, referring specifically to the blood testing. "I wanted to know if that's his real reason (for not fighting)."

The entire negotiation process came to resemble an unsavory soap opera, with HBO Sports boss Ross Greenburg publicly stating that he had worked tirelessly as an intermediary between the two sides. Pacquiao's promoter Top Rank has a poor relationship with Mayweather, who rose to become a world champion under its banner, so it's not unreasonable to assume there was an intermediary.

Shortly after a deadline imposed by Top Rank for Mayweather to accept the fight had passed, his adviser Leonard Ellerbe issued a bizarre statement in which he said no negotiations ever took place — contradicting Greenburg and the folks at Top Rank.

Roach said that Top Rank had been calling him for advice on what gloves to wear, what ring size to use, what weight to fight at — standard details during a negotiation process.

"Whatever he wanted to do, we were accepting it. Whatever he wanted. Manny said, 'I want to fight. I'll agree to anything.' I thought the fight was a shoo-in," Roach said. (With reports from AP)