By Jason Kim: When I learned that Top Rank promoter Bob Arum had given Floyd Mayweather Jr. a deadline in which to agree to a contract proposal that Arum had put together for a November 13th fight against Manny Pacquiao, I figured that Arum really didn’t want the fight that bad.

In all the years that he’s known Mayweather, Arum had to understand that if he gave Mayweather a deadline that it would have to opposite effect by making him ignore it completely.

This is exactly what happened. Mayweather never even bothered to respond to Arum’s deadline. He didn’t say a word, and I can understand why. This so-called negotiation had a bad look to it even from the start when Arum had already set the November 13th as a date for the fight. That right there made me feel that Arum never had any intention at all in matching Pacquiao, his number #1 fighter, against Mayweather because Arum wasn’t even bothering to negotiate the date.

Pacquiao obviously is a busy person because of his political career, but the date of the fight should have been an issue that Mayweather was in on rather than something that was chosen for him as a given. And then there was talk of Arum booking both the Cowboy Stadium and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the November 13th date.

It seems like Arum was planning things to the letter, and it’s strange that he would bother to do that with a fighter like Mayweather who is never easy to predict. How can you put together all these things for a fighter like Mayweatehr when you don’t even know what he’s going to do from one moment to the next? Was Arum really serious about wanting to match Pacquiao against Mayweather or was this just a way to get publicity and have an excuse for when the fight doesn’t take place?

Some people say that the deadline by Arum was his way of covering himself so that he could have an excuse for when the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight didn’t take place. After all, if Mayweather didn’t meet the deadline than he obviously doesn’t want to fight. It can’t have helped things any. I know Pacquiao and Arum are used to being the power players when negotiating with opposition, but Mayweather is a whole different story.

As things are now, Pacquiao will be facing either Miguel Cotto or Antonio Margarito next instead of Mayweather. Both Cotto and Margarito fight for Arum, so it’s a fight where Arum won’t have to share the promoter fee with another promoter.

Arum left the window open for Mayweather to fight Pacquiao in early 2011, when Arum will try again at negotiating fight. However, I don’t see there being any change in the outcome of the negotiations. There are rumors that Arum offered the exact same contract with Mayweather as the first failed negotiations in January, albeit with a small change to the random blood testing with Pacquiao now agreeing to 14 days instead of 24. And that’s crazy if it’s true.

How could Mayweather be willing to accept the same contract when his recent fight against Shane Mosley did double the pay per view numbers compared to Pacquiao’s fight against Joshua Clottey. A 50-50 deal just isn’t going to likely work with Mayweather. Arum shouldn’t bother wasting his time unless he’s going to offer Mayweather a bigger slice of the financial pie.

It doesn’t matter if Pacquiao beats fellow Top Rank fighter Margarito or if he beats up Cotto again, Mayweather is still going to want a bigger cut. Unless they are willing to give him what he wants, there probably is no point in trying to put together a fight in the future.