Manny Pacquiao Will Not Accept 50-50 Split For Hatton Fight

[ferocity]

Right and you do know the reference was against somebody saying that Oscar was a bigger draw than Hatton. You do realize the LA stands for Los Angeles and that is Oscars home town, right?

You just owned pacnation.

[Chase8400]

At this point, Manny is the bigger name/draw, especially in the US. With the way he took care of Oscar people who watched Oscar and nothing else in boxing will transfer some of that over to Manny I think. As for him taking or not taking a 50/50 split.

Does anyone seriously think he's afraid of Hatton?

No, he's def not afraid. However, he deserves no more than 50% based on popularity and the fact that he is trying to earn the lineal crown @ 140. This is no catch weight coin toss like the ODLH fight. It's for LWW lineage. This status means something. The Oscar fight only meant money and proved nothing.

[Chase8400]

You just owned pacnation.

Thank you very much for outsider confirmation. I'm not so sure sure he gets it.

[jaws]

No, he's def not afraid. However, he deserves no more than 50% based on popularity and the fact that he is trying to earn the lineal crown @ 140. This is no catch weight coin toss like the ODLH fight. It's for LWW lineage. This status means something. The Oscar fight only meant money and proved nothing.

Well I disagree on the latter part. He was still a significantly smaller guy hopping up multiple divisions to take on DLH.

For whatever its worth i think Pacquiao gives DLH trouble at any point in his career. Oscar has always had trouble with guys who could match speed with him, and I don't see how Oscar's hesitance and ability to catch straight lefts with his face would be any difference.

I'd say at this point that Manny is more popular, not in the UK obviously, but just about everywhere else in the world. All told, its just posturing by both sides. The fight will happen, and the money talk is just a smokescreen to keep people talking about it in January.

[xEDDIEx]

manny pac definately doesnt seem like the type to duck anyone, so i doubt thats the case. however, demanding a bigger share than hatton seems unfair. i wouldnt be certain that pac is the bigger draw.

[Dave Rado]

ummmmmm there's a reason for that....1st off UK's currency ****s on all countries... and Philippines is a poor country, people there going to Vegas is the last thing on their agenda...only the rich and famous from the PI can attend Manny's fights while u have regular blokes in the UK going to each and every Hatton fight..

All true but not relevant to the issue of who brings more money (in the form of paying fans) to the table.

[Dave Rado]

Outside of England, who cares about Hatton? Unless he fight a big name, he can't get a PPV event. Pacquiao can fight a nobody and be on PPV.

Just look at all the treads here on boxingscene.com about Pac, everybody is talking about him, that's not the case for Hatton.

Everybody want to fight him, Mayweather, Cotto, Berto, Margarito, Holt and JMM. Who want to fight Hatton?

Unless you are biased, you know Pac is the biggest draw. He deserve a bigger share, period.

Your argument is based on their ability as boxers, which is irrelevant as far as who is the biggest draw is concerned. Pacquiao has more hard core boxing fans, but Hatton has more fans who don't follow boxing except to watch him. eno666 quoted some pretty convincing hard evidence of this which no-one has disputed:

Come on Pacman is massively popular but he doesn't have the PAYING fan base like Hatton does. This is the key point. 20,000 Brits will likely fly to Vegas and fill the casino's and arena. This fight will most likely do under 1 million PPV buys in the States but could well do up to 2 million PPV buys in the UK.

With Hatton bringing so much money to this fight how the hell can he be expected to take a 60-40 split? It's crazy!!

My PPV estimates are based on Mayweather v Hatton doing 900k in the States and around 1.6 mill in the UK. I believe DLH V Pac did around 1.25 mill in the States. So it is hard to see Pac v Hatton can do over a mill in the States when they were both the secondary draw in fights that averaged just over 1 mill.

In the UK however Hattons popularity grew after the Mayweather fight and the chance to see Hatton fight the p4p 1 for a second time, when that fighter has just knocked out DLH makes it a mouth watering clash. It is hard to measure but I feel DLH and Pac could both be more popular in the UK than floyd.

[Dave Rado]

Who knew who Hatton was before he got battered by Mayweather?

Hatton has been a big draw worldwide since he beat Tszyu - and a big draw in the UK long before that.

[Kenny Blankenship]

Here's the problem with Pac's teams way of thinking when it comes to a fight with Hatton:

The only other fight out there where Manny can make the same amount of money is a fight with Mayweather. Problem with that is Mayweather will do the exact same thing to Manny that Manny's trying to do with Hatton right now, get a bigger percentage of the pie.

In the end it's most likely that Manny makes the same amount of money if he bypasses Hatton and fights Mayweather now.

Hatton is less risk IMO.

Hatton brings a guaranteed sell out and probably 500,000-1,000,000 British PPV's to the table.

A 50-50 split is more than reasonable. Manny would have to take less of a percentage vs Mayweather but probably earn the same total amount of money if they fought now, but again...Hatton's a more winnable fight for him and if he wins would earn him more in a potential Mayweather fight sometime down the road.

[Dave Rado]

Real simple...manny #1 p4p In the world = more $$$$...PERIOD..nuff said done wit thread....

Should Manny have insisted on getting a 60% share against DLH then, in your opinion?