By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. is committed to having random blood tests done if he and when he faces Manny Pacquiao in the future if the two fighters can work out the testing and the money split issues to make the fight happen. However, he questions whether Pacquiao will agree to the testing.
Mayweather told Hot 97FM “I can’t really say why he [Pacquiao] won’t do the random blood and urine tests. At this particular time I don’t know if he wants to do it or not.”
One thing is for sure if Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum want the Mayweather fight then they’re going to have to agree to the full random blood tests for the fight to happen. Will Pacquiao and Arum agree to that? I hope so, because that’s the minimum requirement to get a fight with Mayweather nowadays. But I’m more concerned with the purse split.
With Pacquiao losing his last fight against Tim Bradley and the fight only drawing a measly 700,000 pay per view buys, Pacquiao and Arum lost whatever argument they had that they deserved a 50-50 purse split of all the revenue for the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. Mayweather bluntly said a 50-50 deal isn’t going to happen in the same interview, saying “Actually, we don’t do the same type of numbers, so how can we split. We don’t draw the same type of money.”
True, very true. How can you give Pacquiao and even split if Mayweather is making the bigger money with his bigger PPV numbers and his unbeaten record. Pacquiao has four losses on his resume and two draws. That’s a far cry from Mayweather’s perfect 43-0, 26 KO’s record. Between Mayweather’s unbeaten resume and his bigger PPV numbers, I’d say that Pacquiao is worth a 30-70 deal with the small money going to Pacquiao. That’s still a good deal and Pacquiao should take it before he gets beaten by one of the guys that Arum puts him in with.
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