Fire Quinito rounds up the best commentary about the fallout of Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather’s failure to come to terms for a mega-fight, so you can go back to reading why Jinkee Pacquiao said "I hate Krista."

Ron Borges, Boston Herald: “Boxing’s ability to destroy its image rivals that of Tiger Woods. The only difference is boxing has more practice at it. For the past decade or so, the men who run the sport have been on a constant campaign of self-immolation, finally doing to boxing what the Mafia could not when they controlled it. They made it irrelevant in the eyes of many sports fans and even more sports editors. Yet as Bernard Hopkins once said, ‘As long as you got ghettos, you’ll have boxing,’ and so boxing has survived relentless efforts to ruin itself.”

Michael Rosenthal, The Ring: “Right now, devoted fans worldwide are depressed over the news that the March 13 showdown – between the Nos. 1 and 2 fighters in the world – apparently is off in spite of ongoing negotiations and two days of mediation. The sides simply couldn't agree on a cut-off date for blood testing. So that appears to be that. The fans have and will continue to blame the side they feel is at fault. The Pacquiao supporters lambast Mayweather for making an unreasonable demand they feel places the Filipino’s character in question. The Mayweather supporters will always ask whether taking a random blood test is really such a big deal. Whichever side you’re on, everyone eager to witness what would’ve been an enormous event has one thing in common: Profound disappointment.”

Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times: “The mediator who worked to strike a deal between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao today attempted to set the record straight as to why negotiations fell apart and why Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum, is saying the fight is off. Mediator Daniel Weinstein, a retired federal judge who listened to the Pacquiao and Mayweather representatives all day Tuesday and continued talks Wednesday, said in a statement released by Mayweather's promoters that the fight unraveled because ‘the parties could not agree on a testing protocol acceptable to all.’ A statement by Mayweather is expected shortly, but Weinstein also noted in his statement that he wanted to correct some ‘erroneous’ news reports of why the talks crashed.”

Scott Christ, Bad Left Hook: “I am neither blaming Floyd nor Manny exclusively. Both of them and their teams have put a dent back in boxing that everyone in the sport had been working for about three years to take out. It started when Floyd and Oscar de la Hoya met in 2007, a fight that broke all the records and demonstrated to the promoters that when you work together on big fights, good things happen for the sport. More and more, detractors, naysayers and the mainstream media in general looked at boxing as a revitalized sport, where things could get done, where the mismatches and garbage main events had been at the very least greatly diminished, if not firmly cast aside. Things were happening again with arguably the oldest sport in the world. Mayweather-Pacquiao would have trumped them all. Not since Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns in 1982 had the two very best fighters in the world come together for a single showdown. And not only were they the best, they were the biggest stars, the sport's two clear money men.”

Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules: “But there is one way in which boxing ruined itself with greed by letting Mayweather-Pacquiao fall to the wayside. By each party catering to their own selfish whims, they robbed boxing fans of the fight everyone wanted to see, a match between the two best fighters of the past decade, its two biggest stars, its two best fighters of today aligning for a rare potential showdown in the same welterweight division. These are men who so prefer to indulge their own basest desires that they would rather send a giant ‘f-you’ to their customers than set those base desires aside for a moment. They don't care what harm comes to the sport that earned them their livings, whether boxing pisses away every bit of momentum it had gained since 2007, when everyone began to realize it was a good idea to regularly have the best fighters fighting each other, to give their customers what they wanted. Immediate gratification of short-term is more important than anything. Anything.”