By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s landslide victory yesterday in the congressional elections in the Philippines has his trainer Freddie Roach excited about the future. In an article at the The Telegraph,, Roach says “We are now going to have congressman Pacquiao knock out Floyd Mayweather.” That all sounds very well, but there’s a couple of problems getting in the way of that happening. First off, Pacquiao would have to likely give in to the unbeaten Mayweather’s demands about the Olympic style random blood testing that he wants before fighting him. And second, there’s the whole question about purse splits and who gets the bigger slice of the revenue.
Last time during their failed negotiations in February, the split was 50-50 between the two fighters. Now, however, Mayweather might be feeling different about that. He just finished making over $40 million for his fight with Shane Mosley on May 1st, and his fight did 1.4 million Pay-per-View buys, which was better than Pacquiao’s 700,000 for his fight against Joshua Clottey last March. This will be hard to ignore when the negotiations start between Mayweather and Pacquiao – if they ever do.
This is perhaps why it was a bad mistake on Pacquiao’s part to take on fellow Top Rank fighter Clottey rather than a bigger star. This allowed Mayweather to easily better the Clottey pick by choosing the 38-year-old Mosley to fight and make more money on PPV. It might not as easy as Roach thinks its going o be for a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao to be put together. Pacquiao will probably have to give in about the drug testing and give Mayweather what he wants.
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