By Sean McDaniel: I think the whole negotiations between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao’s two management teams were never truly agreed on like Bob Arum said. Supposedly, both Maweather’s promotional team and Pacquiao’s had agreed to the contract proposal for the fight and it was up to Mayweather to look it over and made a decision before Arum’s July 15th deadline.

However, Golden Boy representatives haven’t said a peep about what was agreed on and Mayweather hasn’t said anything either. You have to wonder whether he was turned off a long time ago during the negotiations for what was being offered to him in terms of financial split and the random blood testing that Mayweather has asked for.

Pacquiao has said that he wanted nothing less than a 50-50 deal in terms of a financial split with Mayweather, and that’s something that Mayweather wasn’t willing to give to Pacquiao this time around. The last negotiations in January were a whole different matter.

Mayweather had only fought one time in the past two years, beating Juan Manuel Marquez in a one-sided 12 round decision, and was looking to get a fight with Pacquiao to get a good payday and re-establish himself as the number #1 star in boxing.

Well, the negotiations with Pacquiao hung up on the random blood testing, causing Mayweather to go in another direction. Mayweather then fought Shane Mosley, who was considered the number #3 welterweight in the division, and easily beat him by a one-sided 12 round decision. In beating Mosley, Mayweather reportedly made $40 million for the fight and won a ton of respect from boxing fans worldwide.

In contrast, Pacquiao went and fought fellow Top Rank fighter, former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey, beating him by a 12 round decision, but taking a lot of punishment in the fight and not looking nearly as impressive as Mayweather did in winning his fight. But perhaps more importantly, Mayweather’s fight did double the pay per view numbers compared to the Pacquiao-Clottey fight, bringing in 1.4 million PPV buys compared to only 700,000 for Pacquiao.

Now that really seemed to put Mayweather on a higher plateau for his recent negotiations with Pacquiao and his management team. With that kind of win and those impressive PPV numbers, why should Mayweather agree to the contract terms for the last negotiations? That’s crazy. No one would do that in any other business field if things had changed and Mayweather would be doing himself a big disservice to agree to that.

I think the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight never really was close to being made. I think Arum basically sent over pretty much the same contract proposals from the last negotiations in January, with maybe a small change where Pacquiao agreed to the blood testing up until 14 days before the fight instead of the 24 days that he agreed to last time.

Other than that, I’m guessing Pacquiao and Arum were asking for a 50-50 deal from Mayweather, and he didn’t even want to bother himself by responding to it. The deadline was nothing more than a face-saving message, the way I see it, before Arum and Pacquiao move on to fight guys like Antonio Margarito, Miguel Cotto and whoever else Arum puts in front of Pacquiao before he retires. I don’t think the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight will ever get made as long as Pacquiao wants an even financial split.