Pac is coming off two back to back losses, the last one which ended up with him being rendered unconscious for several minutes by a guy who Floyd one every second of every round against. He is about to fight a guy who is coming off a loss against Mike Alvarado, and Alvarado is probably the 15th best guy between 140 and 147. Even if Pac wins he is probably even less worthy of winning the Mayweather sweepstakes than Amir Khan, who Floyd will likely fight in May because Alexander is a soft touch Khan can beat, and Khan will offer tons of British PPV revenue nobody else can.
But before it makes dollars its gotta make sense, and the financial logistics of it don't make sense. Part of the reason why the two make so much is because their opponents usually make so comparably little. If they fight they are going to each want at least the usual $30M for Pac and $50M for Floyd, but since they will be fighting each other in such a big fight they'll want more, so bump them each another $10M and you're looking at $100M purse to dole out. Cable providers and networks get half of PPV revenue so that means the fight needs to generate $200M in revenue to simply break even. Is it possible? Maybe. Is it too big of a risk? Probably. I just can't see it working out when 90% of the revenue comes from PPV and there simply isn't a big enough boxing PPV-buying market out there to justify the purses theyd be asking for.
But before it makes dollars its gotta make sense, and the financial logistics of it don't make sense. Part of the reason why the two make so much is because their opponents usually make so comparably little. If they fight they are going to each want at least the usual $30M for Pac and $50M for Floyd, but since they will be fighting each other in such a big fight they'll want more, so bump them each another $10M and you're looking at $100M purse to dole out. Cable providers and networks get half of PPV revenue so that means the fight needs to generate $200M in revenue to simply break even. Is it possible? Maybe. Is it too big of a risk? Probably. I just can't see it working out when 90% of the revenue comes from PPV and there simply isn't a big enough boxing PPV-buying market out there to justify the purses theyd be asking for.
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