By Lem Satterfield

WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez is pushing very hard for a third fight with Manny Pacquiao. The three division champion from Mexico would like the fight to take place at a max catch-weight of 144-pounds. Top Rank CEO Bob Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, is not going to budge on the weight. Arum, along with Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach, are taking a hard line with Pacquiao's next fight taking place at the full welterweight limit of 147-pounds.

Marquez, WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto, and former champion Shane Mosley, are the three names in the running to fight Pacquiao - if a deal can't be reached with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

"Well, there are two key things with Marquez that are important. One is their fight will be at 147 pounds. In other words, they are not going to fight at a catch weight. If they want a stipulation that Manny doesn't come into the ring weighing more than 150, that's fine. But it's stupidity to make this guy, who is the welterweight champion -- Manny -- go down to 142 or 143. Or to starve himself. The important thing is how much that they weight the night of the fight," Arum said.

"Manny, when he fought Antonio Margarito, weighed in at 144.6 pounds and came in the night of the fight at 148 pounds. That's what we're going to do. We're not interested in any kind of starving to get lower and so forth. The night of the fight, if Marquez fights Manny, Marquez will probably be the same weight as Manny. So the fact that Marquez will probably do that, we're not going to allow Marquez to make this kid [Pacquiao] think twice about what he's eating. That's No. 1. The other guys, Mosley and Berto, they're no problem. They're okay with 147, obviously."

Besides the weight, the second issue at hand is the money. When Arum tried to make a third fight with Marquez earlier this year, he says the Mexican fighter asked for a 50-50 split on the money. That will not happen, says Arum. At best, Arum is willing offer him the same amount of money that he made for last September's fight with Mayweather.

"But the second thing is, I'm interested in only two figures in the negotiations. That's all. One is, the guaranteed amount that I have to pay the fighter, and, secondly, how we measure the upside. Is it above 800,000, or is it above a million homes, and how many dollars a home over and above that threshold? Those are the only two points that I'm interested in. Period. Period. Period," Arum said.

"So, again, I know exactly what Marquez got for the Mayweather fight, alright? And he lost that fight. So, at best, he's not entitled to any more than that. Why should he get more money to fight Manny than he got to fight Mayweather? Why? So, you know, I don't need a big negotiation. And we're not going to need to negotiate with [Golden Boy CEO] Richard Schaefer or anybody like that."

"All I need is for them to send us a letter saying, 'Okay, we'll accept X amount of dollars as a guarantee, and Y dollars for the upside,' which, we know what 'X' and 'Y' were for their fight against Mayweather. So it's either a little less or the same, but not five cents more."

Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here .