Comments Thread For: Pacquiao Vows To Not Budge Further To Mayweather

[Jim Tom]

so this is now all about BUSINESS AND FINANCE INSTEAD OF BOXING? what's gonna be next, ACCOUNTING ON FLOYD'S ASSETS? wtf is happening to you, people of boxing?

Someone isnt agreeing to a fight because he claims he deserves 50%,his fans who are as financially & numerically illiterate as he is also sing in unison.Isnt it better for them either to keep quite or go and learn basic math then come back when they can add and subtract?

[Gratide]

I think floyd should accept the 50/50 spilt and th 14 day testing . The fans really want to see this fight and even though I think Floyd will win the fight , I like Manny better , he's so much more mature and fan friendly . Floyd carries on like a teenage girl and it grows tiresome. They really need to cut the BS and sign the fight , I'd rather see Manny fight Shane and retire but what ever ?

[jltsmae]

Pacquiao's fans are either poor or misers that's why Pacquiao's fights are cheap[/B].That's why so many people filled the Cowboy stadium and yet not much money was made from gate takings.

hahaha... 50T in the stadium were either poor or misers.. are you okay?

[norrin]

50-50 was fair 6 months ago but not now? oh please, everyone knows Mayweather chats ****, hell his fans just ignore all logic. Look, I am a neutral, Everyone knows mayweathers biggest payday happened because of one man, and 80 percent of the buys were due to oscar hence him getting a much bigger split.

Then you got mosley, the biggest ever promotion in history and it only did 150k more than pac vs cotto? both may and pac are established superstars, its fair to refer to their recent big fights

may vs mosley twice as much promotion and did around 1.6/1.5mm less than predicted, so only 1.4m/1.5m.

If you really want the 60-40 split as an excuse for mayweather to drop out, then Pac should get an 80-20 split over all international revenue, he is much much bigger at a world wide stage, infact it is not even close. No doubt it would lead to pac making more money overall and mayweather refusing to fight again.

How long did it take you to come up with that "fuzzy" math?

[pwnthee]

Pac vs. Cotto is the fight to compare, not Pac vs. Clottey.

How did the Mayweather vs. Cotto PPV do? Ohhhh yeah...that's right, he found Cotto unworthy of a fight when he rage-quitted boxing retired.

[jltsmae]

Someone isnt agreeing to a fight because he claims he deserves 50%,his fans who are as financially & numerically illiterate as he is also sing in unison.Isnt it better for them either to keep quite or go and learn basic math then come back when they can add and subtract?

you mean to say BWAA are as financially & numerically illiterate as well? you are really funny man.

[SceneSpectator!]

Popularity means nothing if those so called fans are not willing to pay to watch him fight.All those so called fans do is shout and when it comes to ppv they dont buy and they dont even go to Pacquiao's fights.Arum did notice that Pacquiao's fans are either poor or misers that's why Pacquiao's fights are cheap.That's why so many people filled the Cowboy stadium and yet not much money was made from gate takings.

On the other hand Mayweather has more affluent fans,his ringside seats are more expensive and thats why he makes more at the gate from less people.Come fight night Mayweather fans are willing to pay to watch him fight.There used to be a myth that people pay to watch Mayweather losing,there is no evidence to suggest that.Even the fans who go to watch Mayweather,they will be standing and cheering him as he fights and seems like the who is who in the world will be there.

All this is translated in how much Mayweather makes.In his fight with Marquez, Mayweather made more money than Pacquiao did fighting Marquez and his ppv were more than Pacquiao's.Pacquiao wouldnt fight Mosley because of the risk and Mosley was also said not to bring anything to the table.Mayweather made more ppvs and revenue with a guy who brought nothing to the table.He has been having good ppvs so who says Mayweather is not popular?

this fight is neither money contest nor popularity contest! both of them are the big draws and if ever there are differences then it would be just a small glitches not to fix with 50-50! They are the bests right now and i want to see who's the best of the 2 bests and they should compromise sooner because just few steps away, this won't happen anymore and never we could see this in our entire life! 50-50 is the best offer to meet both parties, and since Pac give in to Floyd's 14 days blood tests cut-off, there's no reason to reneged or change this to another, and any change of these 2 stumbling blocks for the 2 to meet is no doubt as the one who is not interested to meet each other because he clearly ducked the other. I could say that 50-50 split is just fair and there should be a clause for a rematch and who ever wins the first one would be favored for tha 70-30 spilt on the rematch!

[norrin]

It's best to keep quite when you know nothing about finance.
What matters in this case are the number of fans who are willing to pay to watch a fighter fighting and how much those people pay.People can talk about how the Cowboys stadium was filled,that means nothing when those people paid only $25 to get in.Manny has more fights on his resume and more knockouts,against who?So how much ppv did he generate from those many fights.If it's less then what this means is less people are willing to pay to watch Manny fighting than they are willing to watch Floyd fighting.Again some people will claim Manny's not American,then let him be happy with his less cut.

Good point but there was an article on boxing scene yesterday that said 31,000 people paid to see Clottey/Pac so more smoke and mirrors.

[M.I.C.]

Floyd deserves the bigger cut, so I'm concinced Pac dont want the fight, he declined a 50/50 before so he does nothing but looks for an excuse to kill the fight.

[norrin]

I think Pacquiao is more popular than Floyd. Of course, Americans love Mayweather because he is an American too.

Wasn't Manny recognized as Fighter of the Decade? What recognitions has Floyd received to claim his the best fighter who ever lived?

The pound for pound pay per view champion.