Comments Thread For: Mayweather To Pacquiao: No 50-50 and I'm Not Budging!

[WESS]

Yeah brought up because everything else was agreed and Pacquiao had signed the contract.

Floyd needed an out.

If Floyd didn't want to fight Pac he wouldn't have even gone to the table, think Margarito vs Mayweather...

[thuggery]

All of Manny's fans say he doesn't fight for the money, rather he fights for "pride" and fights for his home country...

So the question remains, why does Manny keep refusing to fight Mayweather?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Did Mayweather ever offer 50/50? Probably not. If Pacquaio had agreed to the testing in 09, the split would've been the next roadblock anyway.

[IronDanHamza]

Did Mayweather ever offer 50/50? Probably not. If Pacquaio had agreed to the testing in 09, the split would've been the next roadblock anyway.

I'm going off memory but I'm sure 50/50 was agreed to in 09.

[AlwaysOnTop]

I agree the JMM III fight killed the buzz. No one thinks PAC has a chance other than fanboys. I personally don't thInk this is 50/50 fight. But even befOre Floyd said this arum list of excuses was beginning to grow to other worldly proportions

Cotto just admitted Floyd was never in his plans and Bob NOT ONCE said Floyd's name to him.

All the while telling the media he was ducking Cotto...

Now he's running the same game with Manny's DUMB exploited as.s...


People eat Bob's spewtum because they despise Mayweather and everything they THINK he stands for..right down to his complexion..

Hate is the only thing that can make people so blind and unable to see thru Arum's primitive monkey-shines..

They even paid to see an unlicensed KO'd Margarito....Bob can ride these suckers right into the sunset..

[D4thincarnation]

Actually he didn't agree, nor did he sign a contract. I suggest you further your research.

He wanted nothing to do with OSDT.

He did



Source: Pacquiao agrees to 50-50 split

Floyd demanded a 50/50 split, Manny was kind enough to give it to him, guess Pacquiao actually wanted the fight.

Manny Pacquiao has signed a contract to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in boxing's biggest fight on March 13, a source with knowledge of the meeting told ESPN.com on Friday night.

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Pacquiao and promotor Bob Arum met for two hours Friday to discuss the proposed deal, according to Pacquiao adviser Michael Koncz, who told The Associated Press that "Manny has some additional requirements, requests, which Arum didn't think was a problem.

"The requests of Manny were so realistic that Arum doesn't feel it's a problem and it's pretty much a done deal," Koncz said.

Later Friday it became a done deal, at least on the Pacquiao side, when he signed the paperwork, the source said.

Mayweather had previously agreed to terms with Golden Boy Promotions, his promoter for the HBO PPV fight, but it was unclear if he had signed a contract.

The source also disclosed other aspects of the fight, which will take place at the welterweight limit of 147 pounds for Pacquiao's title and match the top two fighters in the world, pound-for-pound.

The camps agreed to a 50-50 split of the money, which could be gargantuan. Many experts expect the fight to eclipse the all-time pay-per-view record for sales, which is the 2.44 million buys generated by Mayweather's 2007 victory against Oscar De La Hoya.

Both fighters will wear 8-ounce gloves but each fighter will be allowed to select the brand of gloves he will wear for the fight.

For promotional purposes, the bout will be referred to as Mayweather-Pacquiao, but Top Rank will receive first billing over Golden Boy throughout the promotion.

However, instead of a full-scale media tour, there will only be a single press conference in New York during the second week of January. With the schedule compressed because of the March 13 date for the fight, rather than May 1, which the promoters and HBO PPV preferred, it didn't leave time for a lengthy media tour.

The fight is going to take place March 13 because Pacquiao is running for a congressional seat in the Philippines and the elections are in May, which would have been a conflict between his training and the campaign.

Pacquiao will spend the first half of his training camp in Baguio in the Philippines, where he also trained for the first part of his camp in preparation for his 12th-round knockout victory against Miguel Cotto on Nov. 14. For the final few weeks of his training, Pacquiao and trainer Freddie Roach will relocate to Roach's Wild Card gym in Hollywood, Calif.

The site of the bout has not been finalized. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has expressed interest in bringing the fight to his new stadium as have representatives from the Superdome in New Orleans. Also in the mix is the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, which has hosted several Pacquiao and Mayweather bouts. Arum has also received a proposal for a 30,000-seat temporary stadium on the Las Vegas Strip across from the Wynn resort.

[tomhawq]

ten years from now, pu55y boy floyd's tons of excuses would even sound sillier than they are now. who would be ****** enough to believe, for example, that a promoter prevented the fight from happening? who would be ****** enough to side with an extremely defensive, boring boxer over an extremely popular, exciting pacquiao when it comes to purse split issues?

of course, ten years from now he will be in his mid-forties. at such age he'll have to accept that he DID duck pacquiao because how is he going to answer all these excuses in a few words? in this day and age only sound bytes matter. people have no tolerance for looooong explanations.

[thuggery]

Did Mayweather ever offer 50/50? Probably not. If Pacquaio had agreed to the testing in 09, the split would've been the next roadblock anyway.

Would have
Should have
Probably
Maybe

A cult status Pac fan's favorite words.

[boxingfan76]

Once a coward always a coward, This guy is truly petrified of pacman, Mayweather isnt good with southpaws,Guy is the worst ducker in Boxing history, Not even Jmm exposing Pac the way he did made Mayweather grow balls, hes going down as an all time coward not all time great the way he thinks hes is, A big asterdisk on his legacey....

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I'm going off memory but I'm sure 50/50 was agreed to in 09.

I wouldn't be so sure. Remember "everything is agreed, Pacquiao just needs to take the test". That used to be the official party line from the Mayweather fanboys.