Koncz saying Pacquiao-Mayweather winner gets 55% and loser 45%

By Boxing News - 09/21/2012 - Comments

Image: Koncz saying Pacquiao-Mayweather winner gets 55% and loser 45%By Chris Williams: Yesterday, Manny Pacquiao said in an interview with ESPN that he’d be willing to take a 45/55 deal with Floyd Mayweather Jr. just to make the fight happen. This sounded a lot more reasonable than the 50-50 request that Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum had been asking for from Mayweather before there would be a fight between him and Pacquiao.

However, seemed to take a tiny step forward yesterday by offering to let Mayweather take a slightly bigger chunk of the financial pie. But Pacquiao’s adviser Michael Koncz is now saying something completely different than Pacquiao. According to the LA Times, Koncz apparently tried clarify Pacquiao’s comments by saying that the winner of a proposed Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would get 55%, while the loser would get 45%.

It wouldn’t be a situation where Pacquiao would just automatically take the 45%. According to the LA Times, this was the deal that was offered – and rejected – by Mayweather last Spring. It’s kind of strange that Koncz would be talking about the same deal when it was already rejected in the recent past.

If the deal wasn’t accepted then by Mayweather, what makes Koncz think anything will change now? Pacquiao just got beat by Tim Bradley last June, so a lot of things have changed. Why would Mayweather agree to a winner gets the larger 55% deal when Pacquiao is coming off a loss to Bradley in a fight that failed to bring in huge PPV numbers. That would be crazy for Mayweather to agree to that kind of deal now or before. It’s not a good deal because Pacquiao isn’t on his level.

It would be sad if Pacquiao didn’t understand the deal that Koncz was trying to make with Mayweather, and mistook it to mean that he himself would be getting only 45% rather than the loser of a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight ending up with the 45%. I’d like to think that Pacquiao is aware of the deals that his adviser and promoter Bob Arum are making for him.



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