By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t think Manny Pacquiao made the right decision to take lesser money to fight both Tim Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez, both of which Pacquiao lost to. Mayweather said that Pacquiao made the wrong business decisions by facing those guys rather than fighting him.
Mayweather said to esnewsporting.com “Pacquiao could have gotten $40 million to fight me. Instead, he only $16 million.”
That’s a lot of money that Pacquiao could have had for the Mayweather fight. I wonder who advised Pacquiao to say no to that offer?
In hindsight it does seem like a really bad move on Pacquiao’s part for turning down the big cash that he could have received in a fight with Mayweather, because Pacquiao lost both of his recent fights and was knocked out brutally in his last one against Juan Manuel Marquez. Pacquiao no doubt would have been much better off taking the $40 million that Mayweather Jr. was offering him so that he could get a career high payday.
Mayweather also said that the $40 million wasn’t all that Pacquiao would get for a fight with him. Mayweather just wanted Pacquiao to agree to the initial $40 million and that they would then discuss the upside from pay per view.
Pacquiao is now heading for a fifth fight against Marquez next year, and the chances are high that Pacquiao won’t make $40 million for that fight either. The worst part about that is if Pacquiao loses to Marquez again, then a fight between Pacquiao and Mayweather would be very hard to do after that.
I think it’s still possible to make a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight now, but Pacquiao would likely have to accept a much lower purse split than the 50-50 that he wanted in their initial negotiations two years ago. I can’t see Mayweather letting Pacquiao have anything close to 50-50, and if Pacquiao loses to Marquez again, the numbers would be even lower for Pacquiao for a Mayweather fight.
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