Mayweather-Pacquiao Has To Be Made, Says Schaefer

[prsi]

I agree with Schaefer that this fight needs to happen. Both sides need to make it happen.

Here are a couple of ideas that can probably make it happen.

65/35 in favor to a winner by KO or TKO

60/40 in favor of the winner by unanimous decision

55/45 in favor of the winner of a split decision

50/50 in case of the draw.

This will not only help the negotiations but put an extra motivation on the fighters, because the more they try to dominate or KO their opponents the more the will be making in terms of money.

[big_james10]

i wouldnt necessarily say his is much better but you are correct he did fight a lot of elite fighters earlier in his career it seems to me that pacs competition kept getting better and better while floyd more so concentrated on who was holding the WBC belts as opposed to what pac was and is doing and fighting the people who are considered the best in the division he is in

I can agree with part of what you said. Pac's competition is getting better as he goes along. Cotto was his best opponent to date and I am very impressed with what he accomplished against him, but Cotto was not the best at 147 just as David Diaz was not the best at 135. Also, your comment about Pac fighting the best and Floyd not fighting the best does not hold water when you consider that among Floyd's last five opponents have the best at 154, the best at 147, the second best at 147 and the best at 140 according to Ring Magazine.

[passey]

Look...PBF has no choice but to make this fight. The fans won't accept anything less. PBF will talk trash and try to talk up his worth, but he'll make this fight. PBF's ego won't allow him to rematch Hatton and then retire. Mark my words!

[^^Cody^^]

the numbers for cotto-pacuiao will play a big role in whether pac gets a 50-50 split or not....regardless, once the numbers do come out, i expect negotiations to not be as tough as everybody thinks. this fight MUST be made. if not, it'll be a black eye for the sport and a slap in the face to true fans of the sport.

damn ANYBODY who keeps this **** from happening.

Great post. I will feel like somebody punched me in the face if this fight don't happen because of money.

[big_james10]

50/50 period! A hostage negotiation would be easier than working something out with Mayweather when it comes to Pac. Now that Pac won the way he did it will be even more difficult because Mayweather doesn't like risks. May/Pac 2011.

Your comment is based on your hatred of Mayweather and nothing else. You assume that Mayweather will be the difficult one in the negotiation process and you have no evidence to support this theory. I guess you forgot how demanding and difficult Pac's people were in the Cotto and Hatton negotiations. Either that or you weren't watching boxing then.

Pac's victory means nothing to Mayweather. Mayweather chased Cotto for two years at 140 when Cotto was younger and fresher and Cotto wouldn't fight him. And that was before he took the ass whipping from Margarito.

So, now that Pac has beaten a shot opponent that avoided Mayweather for four years, Mayweather is so scared he is pissing in his pants? I wil make my prediction now. Mayweather will beat Pac easier than he beat JMM and will KO him in nine rounds.

[sneaky jepoy]

I agree with Schaefer that this fight needs to happen. Both sides need to make it happen.

Here are a couple of ideas that can probably make it happen.

65/35 in favor to a winner by KO or TKO

60/40 in favor of the winner by unanimous decision

55/45 in favor of the winner of a split decision

50/50 in case of the draw.

This will not only help the negotiations but put an extra motivation on the fighters, because the more they try to dominate or KO their opponents the more the will be making in terms of money.

i like that idea of sharing. but i wouldnt include the decisions.

because the judges will play a big factor in that. case in point fighting in texas. i know it will be held in las vegas. but i dont want to include the judges on having power in the share.

lets begin with
50-50 equal share.

and if someone is KO'd or TKO'd
60-40 : lions share KO/TKO winner.

at least in this case both of them will be working hard to get the lion share. and it will be a war.

and a rematch clause of 60-40 to the winner, if they decided to fight again.

[HattonFaithful]

I can agree with part of what you said. Pac's competition is getting better as he goes along. Cotto was his best opponent to date and I am very impressed with what he accomplished against him, but Cotto was not the best at 147 just as David Diaz was not the best at 135. Also, your comment about Pac fighting the best and Floyd not fighting the best does not hold water when you consider that among Floyd's last five opponents have the best at 154, the best at 147, the second best at 147 and the best at 140 according to Ring Magazine.

ya thats also true good call but these days its so hard to determine who the "best" is in certain weight divisions because everyone has a different take on it but i think we can both agree that right now they are the two best fighters out there p4p right now and need to fight to settle who the better of the two is

[big_james10]

Look...PBF has no choice but to make this fight. The fans won't accept anything less. PBF will talk trash and try to talk up his worth, but he'll make this fight. PBF's ego won't allow him to rematch Hatton and then retire. Mark my words!

The odd thing about the posts on this site is that I never see anyone writing anything about Pacquaio having an ego or being difficult in negotiations. I guess the people on this site think Pacquaio is the most humble, perfect person and can do no wrong.

For the haters who don't know, the Pac/Hatton fight almost never happened because of Pacquaio's unjustified demands. It happened because Arum decided to give Pac an extra $1 million from his own pocket. The Cotto fight almost never happened because Pac was insisting that Cotto come down to 143. Cotto refused and was prepared to walk away when Pac relented. Does this sound like a guy who is easy to deal with?

[big_james10]

ya thats also true good call but these days its so hard to determine who the "best" is in certain weight divisions because everyone has a different take on it but i think we can both agree that right now they are the two best fighters out there p4p right now and need to fight to settle who the better of the two is

I agree. When they fight, lets all hope that the undercard is better than Pacquaio/Cotto.

[GRUSTLER]

Manny Pacquiao needs to fight Floyd at 147 and then we see how bad he really is. Not taking anything away from Pac but catchweights must take something away from fighters I guess because Freddie Roach keeps demanding them. Pac is more than capable fighting at 147 so why shouldn't he agaisnt Floyd? Like everybody keep and kept saying in regards to Cotto "What's 2 more pounds?" same can be said about Manny. that's why Mayweather stays on top of his game because he ain't ****** to drain himself to give his opponent a chance to beat him. Before Floyd gives any fighter a chance to beat him he much rather pay the penalty. No way Floyd does a catchweight fight with Manny and for that I can't blame him. Roach won't be bullying Floyd like he did Cotto because 1) Mayweather is a big $ fighter 2) he has out sold Pacquiao in every PPV outing 3) Floyd is his own boss who is Co promoted by Golden Boy so Arum can't do to Floyd what he did to Cotto and rope him in.