Comments Thread For: Mayweather's Adviser: Nobody is Thinking About Pacquiao

[BIGBOXINGFAN]

Mayweather vs Pacquaio should be 60/40

[And Still]

Yeah idiot back when the black boxes were around...Oscar is still PPV king!

Yeah. because everybody knows that it was impossible to place PPV orders with black boxes.

Damn you, telephone!!

[And Still]

Mayweather vs Pacquaio should be 60/40

****** Pacquiao should be happy to get 40%

[S H A R K B O Y]

Yeah. because everybody knows that it was impossible to place PPV orders with black boxes.

Damn you, telephone!!

actually i think he means when people were able to get ppv for free with the illegal cable boxes.

[Seleção No. 13]

Why are people happy? This fight will never happen.

[johnle43]

Leonard Ellerbe calls report that talks between Floyd Mayweather and ****** Pacquiao could resume Tuesday 'ridiculous'

By David Mayo | The Grand Rapids Press
May 10, 2010, 6:45PM

Cory Olsen | The Grand Rapids PressLeonard Ellerbe, left, on Monday said initial pay-per-view numbers show Floyd Mayweather will gross about $40 million for his May 1 fight against Shane Mosley, which would be the second-highest purse in boxing history.Floyd Mayweather’s adviser vehemently denied an Associated Press report Monday that talks for a ****** Pacquiao fight could resume as soon as Tuesday.

The report was based on an interview Monday with Freddie Roach, who trains Pacquiao but is not involved with the Filipino star in a negotiating capacity.

Roach’s remark turned into an international story, which Leonard Ellerbe dismissed as "ridiculous."

“Ain’t nobody thinking about ****** Pacquiao, Bob Arum or Freddie Roach,” Ellerbe said. “Floyd isn’t thinking about none of them, and there ain’t no negotiations starting, period. Floyd is just coming off a great win. He’s not thinking about any of them.”

Arum promotes Pacquiao and negotiates fights on his behalf, along with the fighter’s adviser, Michael Koncz.

Mayweather scored a 12-round unanimous decision over Shane Mosley on May 1 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Pay-per-view numbers for Mayweather-Mosley have not been released, and Mark Taffet, HBO vice president for sports and pay-per-view, said some key markets have not been fully accounted.

Ellerbe said he has been advised the fight will come in at about 1.4 million buys, which would translate to about $77 million in revenue and make it the second-highest grossing non-heavyweight fight in pay-per-view history.



The only such fight to gross more was Mayweather’s 2007 win over Oscar De La Hoya, which produced all-time records for any weight division with 2.48 million buys and more than $136 million.

Felix Trinidad-De La Hoya, in 1999, would fall to the third-highest-grossing non-heavyweight fight, with 1.4 million buys and $71 million.

Mayweather and Pacquiao tried to put together a March fight, but the proposal collapsed last winter over a disagreement regarding drug testing.

Mayweather wants all his future opponents to submit to random, Olympic-style blood and urine testing. Pacquiao refused. A compromise failed to reach fruition when Mayweather said he would allow a cutoff of blood testing 14 days before the fight, while Pacquiao insisted on a cutoff 24 days before the fight.

Roach’s comments to the AP came in the aftermath of what appeared to be a sweeping victory for Pacquiao in the fighter’s second attempt to win a Philippines congressional seat. The election was Monday.

Ellerbe dismissed the remark as uninformed and said Mayweather only is interested in taking some time off after a long promotion.

“Who are they negotiating with, themselves?” Ellerbe responded.

Ellerbe said Mayweather will gross about $40 million based on the initial pay-per-view numbers, which would be the second-highest purse in boxing history.

“****** Pacquiao is probably wondering how did Floyd Mayweather make $40 million, and I’m making whatever it was he made for his fight,” Ellerbe said. “Floyd Mayweather has definitely made more money in his last two fights than that guy has made in his whole career.”

Mayweather and Pacquiao agreed to a 50-50 split of gross purses in the initial negotiation, although sources have indicated the Grand Rapids native actually would have received much more in pay-per-view percentages if the fight had come off as originally proposed.


Mayweather said several weeks ago that if his fight with Mosley significantly outperformed Pacquiao's victory in March over Joshua Clottey, he would not fight Pacquiao under the terms originally negotiated and would demand a substantial purse shift in his favor.

At 1.4 million buys, Mayweather-Mosley would double the Pacquiao-Clottey figure

http://www.mlive.com/mayweather/inde..._report_t.html

correct me if im wrong but if ur speaking of someone ur thinking of someone.

[johnle43]

****** Pacquiao should be happy to get 40%

u must not want the fight to happen.

[DARKSEID]

umm.. mayweather said the same thing literally 2 weeks ago when espn interviewed him about the pacquiao fight..

"i'm just gonna take a vacation first because I haven't seen my family and we'll see what my team leonard ellerbe, my uncle and my father want to do" (paraphrasing)

Edit: found the video http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5155368

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Comments Thread For: Mayweather's Adviser: Nobody is Thinking About Pacquiao

Speaking with The Grand Rapids Press, Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s adviser Leonard Ellerbe denied reports that negotiations for a fight with Manny Pacquiao would begin as early as Tuesday of this week. Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach told reporters that negotiations would begin this week. Ellerbe says Pacquiao is not even on Mayweather's mind. [Click Here To Read More]

[DR.ORGYY]

Bull****...........