Comments Thread For: Pacquiao Says Mayweather Offered a $40 Million Flat Fee

[eddoes]

Pacquiao earned close to $13 million from his lion?s share of the purse and is expected to make much more from his fat slice of the pay-per-view (PPV) pie.

Pacquiao made around 25m for this fight. That 25m after everyone was paid.

Miguel took something like 12m

As stated by a well know liar Bob Arum with no official figures or evidence supporting those rumors. Same guy that said it takes 6 months for a cut to heal?

[eddoes]

Floyd not wanting to do the 50/50 split is just as bad as Pac not wanting to fight on May 5th. No better, no worse simple.

True but if the date or venue was never agreed upon and your promoter refused to accept calls and request then it makes no sense asking for a 50:50 split out of the blue.

[D4thincarnation]

As stated by a well know liar Bob Arum with no official figures or evidence supporting those rumors. Same guy that said it takes 6 months for a cut to heal?

LOS ANGELES?Do the math, start counting.

Manny Pacquiao is expecting yet another cash windfall after successfully making history following his 12th round technical knockout of Miguel Cotto at the MGM Grand?s Garden Arena that looked more like a demolition job.

Pacquiao earned close to $13 million from his lion?s share of the purse and is expected to make much more from his fat slice of the pay-per-view (PPV) pie.

Experts are saying that the Pacquiao-Cotto bout could generate at least 1.5 million PPV buys, leading to a gross of $82,425,000, after taxes.

Pacquiao is again expected to get a huge share of that pie through his own promotional outfit, MP Promotions.

?The signs are good. We really won?t know until we get the preliminary results on pay-per-view sales on Wednesday,? said Top Rank chief Bob Arum, who promoted the fight dubbed ?Firepower?.

Initial reports, however, indicated that the PPV hits for the Pacquiao-Cotto bout could exceed the 1 million buys reeled in by the fight that saw Floyd Mayweather Jr. outclass Juan Manuel Marquez in September.

?From every sign that we see, we know our goal of garnering more than one million pay-per-view buys is well within sight,? Mark Taffet, a vice president for HBO Sports, which beamed the fight on PPV, said earlier.

That could mean that Firepower will profit more since it was sold to homes on a higher price.

Mayweather-Marquez PPVs were sold at $49.95 each, while the Pacquiao-Cotto PPVs were sold for $54.95 each.

Huge demand

And despite the higher price, there was a big demand for an uninterrupted showing of the Pacquiao-Cotto bout.

?We?ve never had this experience with so many people ordering a fight,? a local New Jersey cable operator was quoted by Fighthype.com as saying hours before the clash. ?This must be a big, big fight.?

Several cable operators were forced to turn away customers because they could not keep up with the demand, the report added. And these customers even filed complaints.

?We're sorry,? the New Jersey provider told customers. ?We are just so overwhelmed with people trying to order this fight. So many people are trying to order it from their remote controls that it locked up the computer. It was processing so many orders, the computer was overwhelmed.?

Huge fan base

Aside from the profit it generates for the pound-for-pound champion, the PPV hits will play a crucial part in negotiations for next year?s highly anticipated superfight: Pacquiao vs Mayweather.

Richard Schaefer, whose Golden Boy Promotions partnered with Mayweather?s outfit for the Marquez bout, said Pacquiao-Cotto would have to exceed the PPV hits of Maywather-Marquez to prove that the Filipino could get at least half of the share of the purse.
Mayweather?s camp is asking for a 65-35 share in profits, something that Team Pacquiao is not amenable to, especially since the new welterweight champion is on a meteoric rise to stardom and commands a huge PPV-buying fan base.

Biggest pay day

Aside from the 16,200 fans that bought tickets to the Garden Arena for the Cotto fight, close to 18,000 also purchased closed-circuit TV seats to watch Pacquiao as he demolished the Puerto Rican after a slow start.

Cotto earned over $6 million for the fight, his biggest payday by far, and is expected to also get his own share of the PPV income.

[mikemurni]

Floyd not wanting to do the 50/50 split is just as bad as Pac not wanting to fight on May 5th. No better, no worse simple.

Not true.. Not agreeing on the date will prevent this fight from not happening early this year, but the date can be reschedule in November, or early next year. If they are serious..

But not agreeing to a 50/50 split will prevent this fight from ever happening.. It will always be a major roadblock...

[Buffalo]

lol.. Pac is already making 40M a year.. so why would he take a 40 M purse, when we all know he is bound to get more than that in his fight against Floyd..Not to mention he can make that type of money fighting 2 fights against somebody else without dealing with Floyd's bull****

****ing moron, the purse split will always been a talking point on all major fights.. Everything comes second to this..

For someone who doesn't care about what manny makes you sure throw around alot of bull**** numbers.

Arum has not paid manny 20 mil per fight. If I'm a f'ing moron that would make you about as bright as the excrement on your shoe when you return from your nanny duties.

Why would someone fight for 40 mil when they can fight 2 times for 20 mill each..........jee let me think. 40 for 1 tops 40 for 2. See it's real simple.

Plus floyd has made 70 mil on a fight before, manny never approached half that. There is a reason top fighters leave top rank. This is like talking with my daughter

[jrosales13]

You know your stuff but are wrong here. You just said for it to be a good deal it would have to do 2 million buys and that's it. How many fights in history sold more than that? Maybe 2? Their last 2 fights combined probably didn't hit 2.5.

Plus in your utopian world arum would be ok with split revenue and co-promotion. Under this deal arum is cut out.( yes I know manny is under contract, but that doesn't mean top rank promotions needs to be involved) Manny would pay bob a small purse instead of the other way around

Only Oscar-Floyd did over 2mil.

Their last fight combined did at 2.65mil. That's irrelevant though cuz' neither of their opponent were as big of a draw as they're.

Arum has been open to a split revenue. Hence why he asked who would have Floyd guarantee...Now will he change his mind or be lying? Sure...But, so far the split and the co-promotion has been agreed upon since 09'. Not so sure why it's any different now?

[IMDAZED]

Not sure how much he thinks he is going to make. But, I'm guess he is banking that this fight will shatter every revenue record there is. Same thing what I think Floyd is banking since he is offering this.

Just co-promote it, split the cost in half to make the event. And, split the revenue 50/50 on everything.

Yeah, too much for me to comment on. Did Pacquiao say he can get a higher guarantee from Top Rank? What does that mean? I call BS.

Agreed on the split. Woke up, saw he got offered $40m and turned it down. Don't think he would get more anyway but he has every right to say no. Move on.

[jrosales13]

True but if the date or venue was never agreed upon and your promoter refused to accept calls and request then it makes no sense asking for a 50:50 split out of the blue.

They're not asking for a 50/50 split out of the blue. It's been agreed upon since 09' man.

It's just as bad. Not agreeing to the date makes the split irrelevant. Not agreeing with split makes the date irrelevant.

[mikemurni]

For someone who doesn't care about what manny makes you sure throw around alot of bull**** numbers.

Arum has not paid manny 20 mil per fight. If I'm a f'ing moron that would make you about as bright as the excrement on your shoe when you return from your nanny duties.

Why would someone fight for 40 mil when they can fight 2 times for 20 mill each..........jee let me think. 40 for 1 tops 40 for 2. See it's real simple.

Plus floyd has made 70 mil on a fight before, manny never approached half that. There is a reason top fighters leave top rank. This is like talking with my daughter

Gee.. Maybe because Pac is expected to receive more than 40 Million for that fight..lol...

70M my as$...lol.. Who said that Floyd..

[LupinIII]

someone post pac's purses for his last couple fights?