Mayweather Wanted $20 million guarantee To Fight Mosley
February 27th, 2009
By Sean McDaniel: According to Boxing Confidential, Floyd Mayweather Jr. wanted an absurd $20 million dollar guarantee to fight Shane Mosley. Apparently, Golden Boy Promotions met with Mayweather about a perspective fight with Mosley, but Mayweather wanted $20 million guaranteed money in order to take the bout said promoter Bob Arum to Boxing Confidential.
Arum feels that Mayweather is way off in his asking price for a fight against Mosley, and because of that, he doesn’t see a fight between Mosley and Mayweather taking place anytime soon. Though Arum does feel Mayweather could earn that much if he put in a big effort with another fighter before then, but Arum doesn’t see it possible that Mayweather would be able to fetch twenty million to fight Mosley or even Pacquiao.
Mayweather’s inflated sense of financial worth appears to be a little out of touch with the reality of the situation, perhaps due to his last two fights against Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton , both huge paying bouts for Mayweather that saw him make over twenty million both times around.
After retiring in 2008, Mayweather also received a huge payday in a WWE Pay-Per-View wrestling match against “The Big Show” in February 2008. Because of these matches, it’s understandable that Mayweather wants to continue to get huge paydays each time out.
The problem here is that Mosley isn’t as popular as Hatton or De La Hoya, so Mayweather is going to have to scale back his wishes if he wants to come back for a fight against him. Mosley probably isn’t going to get much more popular than he is now, and it doesn’t matter if Mayweather waits for the time to be right for a fight between them, because it probably never will if he expects a twenty million dollar payday. At the end of the day, there may not be a fighter alive that would give Mayweather the payday he’s looking for, unless he’s willing to move against someone like Kelly Pavlik. In other words, it has to be a competitive fight because boxing fans don’t want to see him fighting people he’s already fought before.
Under the best case scenario, if Hatton can somehow defeat Pacquiao, then it could set up another fight against Mayweather that could give him the payday he’s looking for. However, even then, he might not get the big money he’s seeking because most boxing fans have the image of Hatton being knocked out in the 10th round in December 2007, and few would probably want to waste money watching Hatton get pummeled again by Mayweather.
Tags: 24 Responses to “Mayweather Wanted $20 million guarantee To Fight Mosley”
Leave a Reply
please use above banner to link back to us!
mayweather has fought future hall of famers and great champions through out his career he proved is techincal abilities against in my opion a faster zab judah he had pin point accuracy and spead against a future hall of famer in diego corales(a almost six footer who had a six to 1 odds to win the fight)he has pretty much fought them all I think he may be a little nervous of mosley(a living legend) but I think he really believes he is worth that much blame boxing for riding his nuts about him being the face of the sport
mayweather has fought future hall of famers and great champions through out his career he proved is techincal abilities against in my opion a faster zab judah he had pin point accuracy and spead against a future hall of famer in diego corales(a almost six footer who had a six to 1 odds to win the fight)he has pretty much fought them all I think he may be a little nervous of mosley(a living legend) but I think he really believes he is worth that much blame boxing for riding his nuts about him being the face of the sport
even though i cant stand floyd he is to big for the pac man whenever you get 2 fighters of the calb. they are the bigger one will win. floyed would need to go pick on somone his own size he was even to bigg for hatton or i guess i should say ricky is to small for him. floyd needs to not be such a puss and fight cotto or sugar.
for me i like fight pacman vs pretty boy co’z all of us is the best figther and best found for found in the world and best figther in the planet ./
Why is Mosley chasing a retired guy. Paul Williams ask for Mosley and he refused but now he wants to pursue someone. These so call champions are pretenders. What happen to the day of proving you are the best and accepting quality challenges. Mosley fought weel against a guy who was on the decline and although Margarito beat Cotto he received alot of punishment in the process,
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnice guy please who do you think is rule’n the H.W’s
mayweather calle out these fighters eralier in his career. he called mosley out a long time ago. he doesnt need to call no one out now. the guy’s officially retired so if ppl want to see him..pay him – simple as.
saying that 20 mill for mosley is too much but trust me if pac beats hatton which i think he will, pac mayweather will be made
i could try mate but i don’t speak stupid haha just ignore him. i can’t add anything to what’s already been covered as everythings been well aired. yes mayweather has priced himself out of the mosley fight, and yeah i agree that he’s no real need to prove himself against any of the fighters who’ve been mentioned…why do we want him back anyway? why does he want to come back? if you retire stay retired. let the younger guys or the guys still active have their turn, we’ve enough fights out there to keep us occupied without dragging people out of retirement. i think its time hatton got off too, hatton v pacquiao? whats the point? we know who’s going to win. and talk of him fighting marquez or mosley? is the man on self destruct or what? time to go rick, give promoting a go if you must.
Can anybody translate c-phillys nonsense please??
To answer Oli, Arum stuck his nose in because he is Pacs promoter as Pac is promoted by Top Rank and Arum is the chief their. He is obviously keen on the super fight, Manny vs Floyd, and has just realised that it may never happen after the story about him rejecting an $8 million dollar guarantee to fight Shane Mosely and asking for more than double.
Mayweather has nothing to prove! He owes boxing nothing. If he feels like it will take 20 million to put his body through that kind of training and risk his health, so be it. I’m happy for him. If the haters really want him to risk his 0 than put up the money.
The golden fan hit the nail on the head. hes in it for money rather than to prove himself. fact is, wins against a blown up zab judah and a blown up ricky hatton doesnt prove ur the best in the welterweight division. if he wanted that honor, he’d fight cotto and williams. will it happen? nah.
asking for $20m is just saying “no”. It will take a lot of work just to be fit again. I will not be surprised if he will do a “no mas” during the fight. Surely, I won’t watch him in PPV, will just hear the news. Maybe, just maybe, if he’ll fight pacquiao… I don’t like a cat and mouse fight. I can tolerate one or two rounds of jabs and hide, but that’s it. With mayweather, you can be surely see alot of that. But not with pacquiao…
mayweather is just like delahoya. can’t pull the trigger anymore. will be good if he still retired. I always thought that Lascano (?) and delahoya beat him.
yo none o u biatttcccchhhss have a clue what your taking about yaall a bunch of hos and yaall can blow me if yaall think mayweather has lost his skills. hed open a can o whoopass on any any dumb whiteass punk that dare challenge the great one in the words of tyson how dare these punks challenge him with their primitive skills their just as good as dead! money! money! till the next time brrraaaaappppp!
mosley vs hatton would be good – then winner “mosley” face floyed
lol
mayweather vs cotto
Yes Mayweather has called out fighters, but thats his mouth writing cheques he hasnt the balls to cash!!
Mosley versus Cotto and Mayweather versus Dela Hoya, winners face off. We all want to see a Mosley vs Cotto showdown, if Mosley wins, he boosts his name and will be a more bankable fighter. If Cotto wins, hes a big name anyway and this further boosts his career and fight options.
Mayweather vs Dela Hoya will attract a large purse, Mayweather will most likely win this fight and wont struggle to get back to Welterweight to face the winner of above mentioned bout.
Although i must agree with everyone who thinks he is pricing himself out of the market, Mayweather alone is not a worldwide PPV seller, mainly because hes not that well liked, even in America, his lack of popularity was proven against Hatton, where American fight fans wanted Hatton to shut him up!! He is undoubtably a unique boxing talent, more than capable of beating the best out there if he was willing to risk a fight.
“He is a fruit, with no heart and very small satchels”
PMSL. That has to be one of the quirkiest insults I’ve ever read. And definitely one of the funniest.
Mayweather is not a fighter anymore, he is a business man. He doesnt fight the bouts fans want to see but the ones with more money and less risk thats why he even fought Hatton after he saw he was vulnerable at welterweight in the collazo fight. Hatton said after that fight that he felt the power of a welterweight and was going back to 140 and guess what he ends up fighting floyd at welterweight cause thats the weight he demanded. So Mayweather is only looking out for himself and thinks he has nothing to prove but the real fans know hes just a good fighter who never proved he was great.
hate it when people say he ducked everyone, hes called out tzsyu, mosley, casamayor,prince naseem in post fight interviews. try watching the post fight interviews versus bruseles or Corrales one. fact is people wana prove themselves on the way up but when they finally get ther they usually wana make as much money as possible before they retire. thats why the above mentioned didint want or need to fight him, they prob felt they could do better.
also mayweathers not a true welterweight he might be too small for some of these guys,thats prob why he only had one fight at light middle.
he started at super featherweight not welterweight. its like saying cotto ducked pavlik for not going up to middleweight to fight him, thats only 4 divisions above where he started.
mayweather will never be nothing but a black nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnice guy to me, a puss who only wants to fight small fighters.
.. well he doesnt seem that keen on proving it does he
i can’t add much to those comments except mayweather has priced himself out of the fight. basicly he doesnt want the fight but by demanding 20 million he’s turning it down with out saying “i turn it down”
mosley will beat mayweather