If you were a prize fighter...

You should change the title to: "If you were Floyd Mayweather..."

I wouldn't even entertain the idea of fighting someone who's declined testing if I was suspicious of them. But that's me, I'm not Floyd.

 

That fight won't draw 100 million now. At it's peak of interest it might have drawn 30 million a piece for each fighter.

 

if im a coward, id take 1million purse-fights for 20yrs than take 100m for 1 fight when i know i get beat up.


what if i lose?

 

Hard to believe. Canelo-Mayweather pocketed Floyd 80 million and Canelo 12 Million. 92 million for each fighter. on 2.2 million buys. MAyweather-Canelo hype was nowhere near pac-Floyd. I went to the tour stop in NY for May-Canelo and it was crazy.

At the Peak of Floyd-Pac, say Early 2011, or anytime in 2010.

On a 50/50 split they could have walked away with 90 milion a piece.

After PPV, Advertisements, Live Gate Etc.

The hype was once amazing. There were people who had never watched boxing a day in their lives, who knew about that fight

 

If he declined over power play then that's fine, but that's on him. Pacquiao never accepted during negotiations. He should've renegotiated instead of accepting to the media.

 

Re-writing history. Pacquiao NEVER declined testing. The issue was always cut-off dates, and when he agreed, Floyd STILL wouldn't fight him clearly demonstrating it wasn't about the testing at all, it was all about road-blocks because Floyd was scared of losing.

Moreover, the $100m wasn't on the table until 2012 and testing wasn't even an issue at that point.

To answer the OP's question, no way would I turn down the $100m. No true fighter would.

 

wrong again.

according to forbes, theftjr earned 105m for 2 fights.

105- 32 (madona) = 73m for drainelo fight.


for pac-thefjr: at 90m apiece, that would need ~3.6m ppv buys at 100$ a pop on average (ordinary/hd).

not realistic but who knows.

theftjr could easily top 100m$ including his cut on the live gate/sponsor money, while pac is limited on his ppv upside.

 

That's the point. PACQUIAO ENDED NEGOTIATIONS to sign on with Clottey, PACQUIAO WALKED AWAY. If Floyd was scared or stalling, then call his bluff. By the time Pac said: "I'll take whatever test he wants.", it was too late, they weren't negotiating anymore. Pacquiao can say whatever he wants when he's signed to fight someone else.

So let me get this straight, Pac can blow the negotiations the first time, sign to fight someone else, then accept Mayweather's offer? And Mayweather is supposed to wait until Pacquiao finishes his fight and Floyd finishes his, then call him up, and give him the same offer from 2009?

 

That fight is no longer a 300 mil fight. It isn't 2009 anymore. There is not as much interest and Mayweather is not going to make 100 mil from that fight today. It would still do well on PPV but not as well as it would have done in 2009-2010.

 

But you forget, his "73m" for Canelo came with him getting about 90% of everything. You really think Pacquiao will accept 10%?

 

I think NOW it'd do 2.6-2.8 million.

 

:huh

how the f*ck in you ***** mind figured this out, do you have a source or something??

2.2mi x 70 bucks = 154 /2 = 77mil.

...plus take out promotional expenses and gbp and showtimes cut of the net profit.

 

I'd fight any man alive for just one million.