Floyd Mayweather: No Even Split For Pacquiao Fight

For his next opponent, current pound-for-pound champ Manny Pacquiao told the Bangkok Post he'd rather climb inside the ropes for a superfight against former pound-for-pound champ Floyd Mayweather than face Miguel Cotto, Edwin Valero, Shane Mosley or Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

If that's true, it's gonna cost him.

Mayweather, a six-time former world champion from Grand Rapids, proclaimed loud and clear in a recent interview with FightHype.com that Pacquiao must take less than 50 percent of the purse split if their much-speculated matchup is ever going to happen.

"Pacquiao will never get 50/50. It'll be a cold day in hell before that happens," he said.

A tale of the tape of pay-per-view numbers featuring Mayweather and Pacquiao against common opponents -- Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton -- shows Mayweather has the upper hand.

"We deal with facts," the undefeated Mayweather said in an article appearing on Philstar.com. "When he fought with Oscar, he did 1.24 (million buys). When I fought Oscar, we did 2.5 (million). Against Hatton, they did 800 (thousand) and change. I did 930 (thousand) for the same fight.

"I did over a million in the (United Kingdom for the Hatton fight) and they did less than half of that," he added.

Of course, Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum, who calls Mayweather a "boring fighter," thinks differently.

"So now Floyd Mayweather says he wants 60 percent (to fight Pacquiao)," Arum said in the same Philstar.com article. "That's nonsense. Even 50 percent is nonsense. You can make a deal with Mayweather if Mayweather takes a much smaller percent."

Seems doubtful.

Mayweather isn't likely to budge from his demands either.

"He's a very good fighter who has a promoter and trainer that are doing all the talking for him," he said of Pacquiao. "I ain't heard Pacquiao mention my name one time. Why? He knows that he would get his (expletive) torn out of the frame fighting me.

"His promoter is jockeying for position to set this guy up, but that would never work with us."

Source: mlive.com