By Chris Williams: Despite WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao not looking impressive in his last three fights, and struggling to eek out a questionable 12 round decision against Juan Manuel Marquez last November, trainer Freddie Roach still believes that Pacquiao deserves an even 50-50 deal with undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) in a proposed mega fight. This obviously isn’t something that Mayweather agrees with nor will he likely ever agree with it as long as he’s putting in more impressive performances.

Roach told the Manila Bulletin that he doesn’t see the fight happening, and he feels that Pacquiao still deserves that 50-50 deal that offered two years ago when Pacquiao was fighting at a high level.

The 50-50 deal was understandable back when Mayweather was coming off of a long layoff and Pacquiao having recently beaten Miguel Cotto back in 2009. Had the fight been made in early 2010, when the two fighters were looking to put together a 50-50 split of the revenue, then the fight easily could have been a fair money split. However, Pacquiao wouldn’t agree to the Olympic style random blood tests that Mayweather wanted for the fight and stuck to the idea of having no blood testing for performance enhancing drugs within 24 days of the fight. That took the fight off the shelf, because Mayweather wanted drug testing at least up to 14 days before the fight.

Really, Mayweather wanted it all the way to the fight but he was willing to agree to have a small holiday of no testing two weeks before the fight because Pacquiao reportedly had problems having blood drawn from his body due to it weakening him. If they had stuck it out with the negotiations at that time, then I could understand the 50-50 deal. However, Bob Arum, Pacquiao’s promoter ended the negotiations and quickly ushered Pacquiao into a March fight against one of his Top Rank fighters Joshua Clottey, who Pacquiao easily beat in a very boring fight.