By BK: Pound for pound king and welterweight world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr has recently been very vocal about wanting to fight Manny Pacquiao in his next fight in May.
In fact this is the most vocal Mayweather has been about the fight for some time. Mayweather and Pacquiao have been speculated to fight for 5 years now dating back to late 2009. However, due to disagreement from both camps over terms to the fight, it was never made and the world still awaits the biggest and most expensive fight in this era to happen.
I have been reading everyone’s comments over the last few months and all interviews from Mayweather, Pacquiao, promoter Bob Arum and to me, Mayweather generally wants the fight and isn’t the one that is blocking this fight happen like everyone says it is. I expect all Pacquiao fans to disagree with this but anyone who truly knows boxing will know Mayweather can still have a career defining resume with or without a win over Pacquiao but the same cannot be said about Pacquiao. Here is why.
Pacquiao and Arum have said plenty of times before that Floyd Mayweather’s numbers are dropping in PPV sales but looking at the facts, Mayweather holds all PPV records and is still today the most paid fighter in the sport. Mayweather has done over 2 million sells on two occasions, against De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez last year. Other than that, he has made 1 million buys since 2007 in all fights, his last two fights against Marcos Maidana done just under a million however that is still triple what Pacquiao has sold in recent years.
Pacquiao’s last few fights against Algieri, Bradley and Rios have all been well below Mayweather’s and apparently his last fight against Algieri will be a record low of sales for Pacquiao for years, just around the 300 thousand mark. People also forget in Mayweather’s fight against Oscar De La Hoya in 2007. Mayweather agreed to the fact he was the B side. He let Oscar choose the arena, gloves, the weight and the judges and did what a B side fighter should do, shut up and get on with the fight and he did that and went on to beat De La Hoya and become and still is today, the pound for pound king. Pacquiao hasn’t hit 1 million views unless he has faced Marquez. Why Pacquiao and Arum refused to give Marquez 20 million for a 5th fight? because they believe Marquez is the B side so why is it different when Pacquaio is the B side vs Floyd?
Pacquiao has also recently said Mayweather has ‘no where to run’ but with Mayweather only being his own boss, he can fight who he wants, you can name rows of fighters who would want a fight with Floyd Mayweather, he isn’t short on options as far as exciting fights go, for me, Mayweather facing Amir Khan or Keith Thurman is more exciting than seeing Mayweather fight Pacquiao of today. Pacquiao is with Bob Arum’s Top Rank stable and due to the cold war in boxing, Arum can’t match his fighters up against some other networks fighters, so why is Pacquiao saying Mayweather has no where to run when he is the one having to fight rematch after rematch and seeing his PPV sales drop every fight that goes on.
Mayweather is still defining the odds and beating the best out there including beating the hungry new lions coming through that will be here for years in Canelo Alvarez in 2013 and dethroning the kings and unbeaten fighters before him in Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Juan Manuel Marquez and Shane Mosley. Also can I mention to the people who say Mayweather ducked a prime Oscar De La Hoya, Antonio Margarito, Paul Williams and Shane Mosley. Mayweather, when he was being promoted by Arum, asked Arum to make those type of fights to which Arum refused so Floyd had to buy out of his contract with Arum to pursue them fights and then fought them later then he would like to.
Mayweather can fight two other fighters outside of Pacquiao and still retire having a better legacy than Pacquiao. Pacquiao with his record breaking low PPV sales dramatically falling with every fight and being unable to secure fights with new opposition due to him being under Bob Arum still, he will be forced into rematches with Tim Bradley, Chris Algieri and Brandon Rios until he retires and no one wants to see them fights again so you will see his sales drop even lower in the future, whilst Floyd will still have double, triple maybe even more amount of sells and retire financially happy with a hall of fame legacy and able to live happy.
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