Comments Thread For: Arum: Movement in Mayweather vs. Pacquiao Talks

[richardt]

Pacquiao: "money is not the issue in our fight" Arum: "it's always about money"

That's correct. Pac doesn't care because he knows no matter what percent he gets, it would be more than he will have ever made by far. Arum is the one who tries to negotiate down to every penny.

[sicko]

GREAT NEWS! Baby Steps lol

[Pigeons]

Movement is better than no movement. His options are dwindling and the longer he waits, the more he doesn't have a choice because he will get crucified if he faces Garcia.

Mayweather has healthy options if this fight doesn't happen; Cotto rematch and Khan.

Pacquiao does not; Jessie Vargas.

In fact, Mayweather's Plan X (Danny Garcia), Y (Keith Thurman), and Z (Shawn Porter) are better than Pacquiao's Plan B.

[LADIV]

The only movement going on is arum moving away from this fight....**** off arum

[Wolfie*]

Mayweather has healthy options if this fight doesn't happen; Cotto rematch and Khan.

Pacquiao does not; Jessie Vargas.

In fact, Mayweather's Plan X (Danny Garcia), Y (Keith Thurman), and Z (Shawn Porter) are better than Pacquiao's Plan B.

That's great but none of those fights are justified.

[Lou Cipher]

The only movement in Mayweather vs Pacquiao talks is in Floyd's bowels every time said talks occur.

[Realizniguhnit]

You got to really give it to Floyd If he pulls this one off though Pacquiao is 36 and Floyd will be 38 and he's about to get 100+ million just for this one fight. If they would have fought when they were suppose to fight there's no way he would have got anywhere near this amount! maybe 50 60 million at most..

[hectari]

Let's be realistic. You think they'll agree to even give 1% (which would be a few mil) to charity

It would help boost sales, they would get a write off for donations a lot of celebs donate to charity to get write offs.

I think it would be awesome because people already have a negative image of Floyd being greedy, if he even gives like 1 percent of his purse to charity it will make more people order the fight, it works people will start saying hey this fight is going to a good cause.

They get benefits all the way around, they can still get paid millions, get write offs for the donations, and boost Floyds image of a charitable man not all about the money.

its win win win alll the way around, and the ppv buys will get an extra boost by ******* hipster casual fans who like to bandwagon charitable causes and events to make them look caring and hip.

[MisanthropicNY]

Look the $40 million with no Pay-Per-View that May offered Pac years ago was a disgrace to his legacy period...BUT...

Stop with this winner gets the purse BS...no one should agree to allowing horrible judges deciding purse splits...

55-45 isn't even that great of a deal for Mayweather... it should be 60-40 Mayweather and that's it...

I heard Mayweather wants 80-20 and Pac wants 55-45... way too far apart..this fight is not happening... because May is asking for a ridiculous split... at least 55-45 is close a reasonable split..but 80-20 = May doesn't really to make the fight happen in good faith...

[MisanthropicNY]

Mayweather has healthy options if this fight doesn't happen; Cotto rematch and Khan.

Pacquiao does not; Jessie Vargas.

In fact, Mayweather's Plan X (Danny Garcia), Y (Keith Thurman), and Z (Shawn Porter) are better than Pacquiao's Plan B.

You're clearly a Mayweather fan, so of course you don't make any valuable statements ever...

Mayweather has a deal with Showtime... Mayweather-Maidana II = never released PPV numbers...

You think Showtime wants to pay Mayweather 31 mil guaranteed for those fights you've just mentioned? Danny Garcia was exposed by Herrera... Shawn Porter is coming off of a loss and is a nobody..look at his TV numbers...Keith Thurman couldn't even land a fight with the Ghost..but May is going to fight him?

Cotto is his only option at selling PPV numbers but Al Haymon is so greedy...he'll never give Cotto a better offer than Canelo's team will...

Only person desperate enough to take the fight for low money and being by Showtime is Khan...and that fight does not do big numbers... even Mayweather stated that "nobody knows who Khan is"...

Pac can fight Provo or Jesse Vargas...make his 20 mil...and Arum will pay Vargas/Provo peanuts and it'll sell like 300K and Arum still makes a good profit...