Saul Alvarez vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight might be too difficult to put together due to money issues

By Boxing News - 01/09/2012 - Comments

Image: Saul Alvarez vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight might be too difficult to put together due to money issuesBy Dan Ambrose: Manny Pacquiao is supposedly going to tell his promoter Bob Arum that he wants Floyd Mayweather Jr. next. However, I don’t see happening for a second. Arum will talk Pacquiao into taking one of the four fighters that he’s already come up with for Pacquiao to fight in June.

That leaves Mayweather looking for another opponent on May 5th. The list is pretty small with only Robert Guerrero and Saul Alvarez as potential choices for the 34-year-old Mayweather. It’s obvious that the best choice for Mayweather is the 21-year-old Alvarez because Guerrero doesn’t have a fan base outside of Northern California, despite a number of his fights having been televised on HBO in the past.

Sometimes it takes a while for a fighter to catch on with fans even when HBO is shoving the fighter down the throats of fans. Guerrero is a weak choice. But a fight between Alvarez and Mayweather could be undoable fight due to the big money that Mayweather is going to want for the fight.

He typically gets a huge percentage cut in his fights, but a lot of the reason for that is he’s facing lesser stars. Alvarez, 21, is a star in his own right and he’s not going to be willing to take a 10% cut while Mayweather walks away with 90%. I don’t think Alvarez would even take the fight if his cut was 30/70. He’s probably going to want at least 40% in a fight against Mayweather.

He’s not going to just take chump change for a fight where there’s a strong possibility he’s going to come out the loser. This is why I don’t think Alvarez-Mayweather is a doable fight. Mayweather needs an opponent that’s not a huge name and has no power to negotiate with him over the revenue split. Alvarez has too much power and it could make it all but impossible to negotiate this fight if all Mayweather is offering is between 10% to 20% for the May 5th fight.



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