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(WriteGood!WireServices) Mere hours before open hostilities could break out between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, the two aggressors have reached a shaky, but peaceful truce negotiated by Secretary of State John Kerry.

“Many details remain to be worked out. But for now, all provocative actions as well as Friday’s official pre-fight weigh-in have been postponed indefinitely,” Kerry said at a news conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

“An international team of diplomats from both sides have agreed to return to the negotiating table as soon as they cash out from the craps table,” he said.

John Kerry negotiates with Pacquiao, Mayweather to avert nuclear proliferation and slightly higher pay-per-view rate.

The highly anticipated confrontation between Mayweather and Pacquiao has been lauded as “the fight of the century” by boxing fans, and denounced as “the single greatest national security threat to the United States” by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

“This is nothing less than a replay of Clinton’s failed North Korea talks and the Mike Tyson versus Buster Douglas debacle,” said Cruz.

“I dropped a bundle on both!”

Among the issues still dividing the two sides are concerns over Mayweather’s history of domestic abuse and Pacquiao’s potential export of fissionable materials to Russia.

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