By Mark Vester
As expected, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has gone on the record and told Manny Pacquiao that he can forget a 50-50 deal if the fight with Shane Mosley does better on pay-per-view than Manny's fight with Joshua Clottey. Pacquiao defends his WBO welterweight title against Clottey on March 13. Mayweather faces WBA champion Mosley on May 1.
If Mayweather's pay-per-view has better buyrate numbers than Pacquiao's fight with Clottey, Mayweather will demand a bigger slice of the cake when, and if, the two boxers ever try to negotiate a fight again.
And forget about any agreement on a cut-off date for random drug tests, which is the reason the negotiations for the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight fell apart. Last time Mayweather agreed to a 14 day cut-off before the fight, and Pacquiao wanted a 24 day cut-off. When they negotiate again, Mayweather will demand a contact clause that calls for the random blood and urine tests to continue until the day of the fight.
“I gave him a chance, up to 14 days out. But my new terms are all the way up to the fight. They can come get us whenever, all the way up to the fight, random drug test. That’s what it is,” Mayweather said to The Grand Rapids Press .
“[If the Mosley pay-per-view does better than Pacquiao-Clottey], instead of 20 or 25 [million dollars], he may have to drop to 15, or 17. And you know me, they may have to throw that extra 5 or 10 on mine, and we can rock and roll. Take it or leave it.”
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