By Chris Williams: I don’t understand why Manny Pacquiao is so concerned about wanting to get a 50-50 deal with Floyd Mayweather Jr. He is boxing for the people and not for money, right? Well then it stands to reason that Pacquiao should be more than happy to take the 40% or whatever cut that Mayweather is offering him with reason so that the blockbuster Mayweather-Pacquiao fight can be made.

After all, it’s for his fans and he does want them to be happy. I’m one of Pacquiao’s biggest fans and I’m not happy. Why is Pacquiao worried about getting an even deal. Even if Pacquiao does wind up getting 40% or 45%, that’s still way more than Pacquiao ever got before in the past.

By taking the money, Pacquiao would be making the mega fight happen and would also be getting the biggest payday of his career. I think anything in the neigborhood of 40% upwards is a very generous offer to Pacquiao and I can’t see why he would turn it down in order to fight a needless rematch with Miguel Cotto or take on Antonio Margarito.

I’m pretty sure that both of those fights would do way worse than the Mayweather fight in generating PPV buys. I would be perfectly okay with Pacquiao getting an even deal with Mayweather if Pacquiao was getting the same or very similar PPV numbers, but unfortunately he’s not. Pacquiao’s numbers are less than Mayweather, and so it stands to reason that Pacquiao should make less.

That’s how things go in the world of business. If you consistently out perform your co-worker, then you’re supposed to get more money. That’s the way things are done in the United States. If Pacquiao was making the huge money in his PPV bouts and doubling Mayweather’s numbers, then I would say that Pacquiao deserves the bigger share of the pie.

But the fact is Pacquiao isn’t generating the better PPV buys compared to Mayweather. And if Mayweather was to give Pacquiao the same amount he’s getting in terms of a split of the revenue then Mayweather would be giving away what should be his own money because he’s the better PPV draw in this fight.

For whatever reason, Pacquiao just hasn’t been getting the same amount of PPV buys as Mayweather. Who knows what the disconnect is. It could be something as simple as bad match-making for Pacquiao by his promoter or it could be that some boxing fans don’t see Pacquiao as interesting to watch compared to Mayweather.

It could be that Mayweather is better at marketing his fights because of his gift for speaking. I don’t know that Mayweather should ignore his better numbers and just give Pacquiao the same exact cut that he’s getting when he’s doing the better numbers. Pacquiao had a chance last time to fight Mayweather at 50%, but instead Pacquiao chose to fight one of his promoter Bob Arum’s fighters with Joshua Clottey. In my views, that closed the chance of a 50-50 deal when Pacquiao’s PPV numbers against Clottey didn’t do that good.