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Manny Pacquiao challenges Floyd Mayweather - 70% for the winner and 30% for the loser
Even by Las Vegas standards it is a big call out. Manny Pacquiao is challenging Floyd Mayweather Jnr to split the giant purse 70 per cent to the winner and 30 per cent to the loser, if their mega-fight ever takes place. According to the latest projections this would be boxing’s first $200million bout so the PacMan is upping the ante considerably.
Mayweather originally offered Pacquiao a flat $40m on condition that he keeps all the pay-TV money. Pacquiao responded with a guarantee of $55m to Mayweather with them each taking a 50-50 split of the television revenue. No thanks, said Mayweather, who still wants all the extra loot for himself. Pacquiao’s latest call is a challenge, also, to Mayweather’s insistence that he would win easily. If so 70 per cent would net Mr Money in the region of $140m.
So why not take it?
Could it be because the real prize at stake is the holy grail of boxing, the mythical title of greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world, to which Mayweather lays vociferous claim without fighting Pacquiao? That and Mayweather’s obsession with keeping his undefeated record all the way to retirement? Mayweather calls himself Money. But will he back himself to live up to the nickname? In terms of bragging rights, Pacquiao has pushed him into a corner with this one. Can a real macho man turn down such a challenge?
One ex-world champion definitely qualified to answer that is Mike Tyson. When news came that Pacquiao might follow Mayweather into jail – albeit unlikely since he is a national hero and potential future president in the Philippines where he is under tax investigation – Iron Mike said: ‘I would throw them both in prison until they agree to fight.’ Sounds fair enough to me.
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Mayweather originally offered Pacquiao a flat $40m on condition that he keeps all the pay-TV money. Pacquiao responded with a guarantee of $55m to Mayweather with them each taking a 50-50 split of the television revenue. No thanks, said Mayweather, who still wants all the extra loot for himself. Pacquiao’s latest call is a challenge, also, to Mayweather’s insistence that he would win easily. If so 70 per cent would net Mr Money in the region of $140m.
So why not take it?
Could it be because the real prize at stake is the holy grail of boxing, the mythical title of greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the world, to which Mayweather lays vociferous claim without fighting Pacquiao? That and Mayweather’s obsession with keeping his undefeated record all the way to retirement? Mayweather calls himself Money. But will he back himself to live up to the nickname? In terms of bragging rights, Pacquiao has pushed him into a corner with this one. Can a real macho man turn down such a challenge?
One ex-world champion definitely qualified to answer that is Mike Tyson. When news came that Pacquiao might follow Mayweather into jail – albeit unlikely since he is a national hero and potential future president in the Philippines where he is under tax investigation – Iron Mike said: ‘I would throw them both in prison until they agree to fight.’ Sounds fair enough to me.
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