Why do Pacquiao's opponents get paid more money than Floyd's opponents?

[RisAri0]

The way I see it. Its more of a health risk fighting Pacquiao than it is fighting Mayweather.

[Ray*]

Strange Floyd would then insist on no PPV upside for Pac, whos a much bigger star than those guys.

Am sure we dont know what is going on regarding what was offered to Pac or whatnot.

[ELPacman]

Cause Pacquiao isn't a greedy biatch. At the same time, he isn't ****** when Jr. makes a ludicrous offer that is insulting. Jr. makes offers that are made to be rejected. Keeps him safe.

[The Big Dunn]

Cause Pacquiao isn't a greedy biatch. At the same time, he isn't ****** when Jr. makes a ludicrous offer that is insulting. Jr. makes offers that are made to be rejected. Keeps him safe.

the only opponent we know who rejected Floyd's offers was manny-on 2 different occasions. that doesn't mean his offers are designed to be rejected.

[HeroBando]

Am sure we dont know what is going on regarding what was offered to Pac or whatnot.

Pretty sure theres a video of Floyd saying this, but you believe what makes you happy

[HanzGruber]

Cause Pacquiao isn't a greedy biatch. At the same time, he isn't ****** when Jr. makes a ludicrous offer that is insulting. Jr. makes offers that are made to be rejected. Keeps him safe.

How is he greedy lol. He's getting a 32 mil flat fee guarantee. I don't think he determines how much the other guy gets

[ReIoaded]

Imdazed response pretty much kills your argument.

I'm surprised you are going so hard, especially seeing how the TS argument draws such a small sample and purposely leaves out certain fights to skew the answer.

I didn't purposely leave out certain fights. I needed to start somewhere recent and went by their 3 most recent fights. This was more than enough time to spend on research for our boxing forum entertainment purposes

But, for the sake of it here is an updated list of their 6 most previous fights:

(Pacquiao)
Brandon Rios - $4 million guarantee
Timothy Bradley - $6 million guarantee
Chris Algieri - $1.5 million
Marquez 4 - $6 million guarantee
Bradley 1 - $5 million guarantee
Marquez 3 -$5 million guarantee

Total - $27.5 million

(Mayweather)
Canelo Alvarez - $5 million guarantee
Marcos Maidana 1 - $1.5 million guarantee
Marcos Maidana 2 - $3 million guarantee
Guerrero - $3 Million guarantee
Cotto - $8 million guarantee
Ortiz - $2 Million guarantee

Total - $20.5 million

[Francis M.]

How is he greedy lol. He's getting a 32 mil flat fee guarantee. I don't think he determines how much the other guy gets

Of course his guarantee determines how much his opponents gets in a fight.

There is only so much money to go around and Floyd getting 32 mil guarantee leaves the budget tight for everything else. Why do you think Chino two had a garbage undercard?

[Larry the boss]

well it cant be the "mayweather sweepstakes" then can it? if you are after a payday then you are better taking the pacquiao sweepstakes.

The "sweepstakes" is if you beat him..you make history

[Cinci Champ]

That still doesn't explain why Pacquiao opponent's who are arguably less popular and less marketable earn more money

for one mayweather sells more ppv so that instantly raises it usually even if not public and of course it fully explains it. fighters know fighting floyd has more benefits in future as well way more then fighting pac. Plus they all want to be the first to win it makes perfect sense really but only if your admitting how much more of a platform fighting floyd is then pac