By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum thinks that putting together a mega fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his fighter Manny Pacquiao will now be that much easier now that Mayweather Jr. has put together a new promotional company with rapper 50 Cent [Curtis Jackson] called TMT Promotions.
Arum told RingTV “I would think that if [50 Cent] promoted Floyd, it would make a match-up between Pacquiao and Mayweather that much easier.”
I disagree with that. It’s not about who promotes Mayweather, it’s about the revenue split and the drug testing. Arum could promote both Mayweather and Pacquiao and the fight still wouldn’t happen as long as the recently beaten Pacquiao continued to ask for a 50-50 deal in terms of the purse split of the revenue. Mayweather quite rightly doesn’t see Pacquiao deserving an even share of the loot, and Pacquiao’s less than impressive pay-per-view totals for his last bout against Tim Bradley, which brought in a little over 900,000 buys pales in comparison to the 1.5 million buys that Mayweather hauled in for his last bout against Miguel Cotto.
50 Cent promoting Mayweather will have no bearing on a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao getting made. As long Pacquiao keeps talking about wanting a 50-50 deal, the fight won’t get made. It’s too bad because Pacquiao is probably going to wish he had accepted the generous offer of $40 million that Mayweather made to him recently for a fight. If Pacquiao takes another loss in his next fight in November then it’s going to be laughable for him to be still asking for a 50-50 deal. And believe me, I can see Pacquiao still doing that. But other than that, Pacquiao is going to have to agree to the blood testing for performance enhancing drugs. That isn’t going to change even with 50 Cent promoting Mayweather. Pacquiao is going to have to take the test.
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