By Chris Williams: According to Ronnie Nathanielsz from Philboxing.com, Manny Pacquiao has declined a 60-40 revenue split request from Floyd Mayweather Jr. during their the negotiations for a fight that will likely take place in November. The discussions aren’t moving because of the inability to agree to a revenue split. Last time during negotiations in January of this year, Mayweather and Pacquiao agreed on a 50-50 split, but the fight still didn’t take place because Mayweather and Pacquiao couldn’t agree on the blood testing cutoff point. Pacquiao then fought Joshua Clottey and brought in 700,000 pay-per-view buys.
Mayweather, in turn, took on the more popular opponent in a bout against Shane Mosley in May and brought in double the numbers that Pacquiao-Clottey generated at 1.4 million PPV buys. This is why perhaps Mayweather feels that he should get a bigger percentage of the purse split and it’s hard to argue against that. The Clottey fight seemed like a bad decision because they probably needed to put Pacquiao in with the most popular fighter they could find in order to have leverage in the future negotiations with Mayweather.
It seems that Mayweather was thinking of this when he chose Mosley. Now, it will be interesting to see if Pacquiao and Mayweather can agree to something closer to 50-50. I doubt that Mayweather will accept the old terms in light of his PPV numbers against Mosley. It’s just unfortunate that the fight didn’t get made at that time because things have changed dramatically since then.
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