Mayweather vs Cotto Announced

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Very good fight, should have happened back in 2008 but it still a goo fight now.

Behind Pacquiao and Martinez, Cotto would be my next choice to face Floyd.
 
Alan said:
Have the Manny/Floyd talks completely collapsed?
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Yes Floyd reneged on the 50/50 agreement. Pacquiao agreed to everything Floyd wanted, the blood tests, even the date which was against Arum's wishes. Pacquiao sent Koncz for direct talks with Mayweather bypassing Arum.

But Floyd came out with the nonsense that Pacquiao was a $10m dollar fighter and would only give him $40m with Mayweather taking the rest, which could be as much as $90-100m.

Pacquiao said that he would give Floyd $50m and a 55/45 split to the winner but Floyd decline saying he wanted the bigger slice win or lose.

http://www.boxingscene.com/team-pacquiao-fire-mayweather-talk-bradley-cotto--49159

When I first met with Floyd, at his gym, that was at the instruction of Manny - to reach out to Floyd and see if he’s serious about this fight. Because in the past, we've tried to make this fight three times. Twice with the two promoters involved and once with intermediate people involved. Me and Manny believe this fight was never made for a couple of reasons, because it was being negotiated in the media. And I believed that maybe Floyd wasn’t getting the facts as they were being presented to his people. So I reached out to him. When I went into the gym, per Manny's instruction, I asked him point blank if he wanted the fight because we were interested and I didn’t want to play games. He said 'yes.'

Then I informed him that we were okay with the blood testing. We were okay with the blood testing every day, except the day of the fight and then we chatted just general conversation and that was just the extent of our negotiations. I also told him that we should keep this out of the media, and we're doing like you said a few months ago in the media, that Manny needs to be his own boss, and that’s why he has sent me here as his representative.

So we had a couple of conversations in-between there. Then I went back to the Philippines. And then he called me to discuss the fight again. He said that he wanted to pay us $40 million dollars, $40 million wired within two days. I put Manny on the phone with Floyd. Manny told him that he had no problem with a 50-50 revenue split and that he was sending me back to America to discuss the matters further with Floyd - which I did the following Monday. I arrived in America [and] I went to Vegas. I met with Floyd on two separate occasions, personally, and spoke to him on the phone a couple of times.

I informed him that Manny would not accept a buyout of $40 million. Because that's what it was. When I asked Floyd about the [pay-per-view/revenue] overage, he said 'I'm paying you guys $40 million, accept that first and then perhaps we can talk about something on the overage at the end.'

I said that 'I discussed it in depth with Manny and we can't accept those terms Floyd. But what Manny has offered me to do, is split the revenue 45-55 - with 55 going to the winner of the fight.' So I told Floyd that if you’re the best fighter in the world, then no problem you're going to get the extra ten percent. On a fight of this magnitude, that's $200 million and that's an additional $20 million to you. It wasn't accepted.

About a week later, I spoke to him a couple of times in-between, and I relayed our final offer to him - that we do the blood testing every day except for the day of the fight and we would do the revenue split 45-55. However, I added in there, that at this point in time that we would guarantee his purse to be $50 million dollars. Because in our prior conversation, his purse was going to be [guaranteed] by somebody else. And then again he was adamant about doing this $40 million dollar buyout.
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It is clear that Floyd was never interested in fighting Pacquiao and never will be.
 
I still think it's all bullshit though and the reason it hasn't happened is Arum, why would he want to let him fight Mayweather? Because if he loses which it's likely he will he'll most likely retire or lose a lot of money in revenue, people are only buying pac fights to see if he can keep winning to keep the dream of a mayweather v pac fight alive. If pac loses his popularity will slip by miles and he'll likely retire or get smaller purses which would mean Arum loses out on a lot of money instead of being able to make Pac v Marquez 4 and probably 5, Pac v Bradley, Pac v Peterson etc etc. It's a money game and Arum is the greediest **** in the game
Great to see Mayweathers fighting Cotto at Cottos weight aswell instead of doing a Pacman and making Cotto fight at a catchweight.
Classic Mayweather aswell with his latest tweet on twitter <laugh>
 
A few years too late this fight.

Mayweather moans about Pac fighting his 'leftovers', then Mayweather fights Cotto. <laugh>
 
lcooper2010 said:
Pacquiou made him fight at a catchweight, Mayweathers fighting him at Cottos weight
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Clottey vs Cotto: Cotto 146lbs
Pacquiao vs Cotto: Cotto 145lbs

Do we really think that it made a huge difference?

Pacquiao probably should have fought Cotto at 147lbs but c'mon you really think the result would have been any different.

Cotto still had about a 10lbs advantage over Pacquiao in the ring.
 
D5thincarnation said:
Yes Floyd reneged on the 50/50 agreement. Pacquiao agreed to everything Floyd wanted, the blood tests, even the date which was against Arum's wishes. Pacquiao sent Koncz for direct talks with Mayweather bypassing Arum.

But Floyd came out with the nonsense that Pacquiao was a $10m dollar fighter and would only give him $40m with Mayweather taking the rest, which could be as much as $90-100m.

Pacquiao said that he would give Floyd $50m and a 55/45 split to the winner but Floyd decline saying he wanted the bigger slice win or lose.

http://www.boxingscene.com/team-pacquiao-fire-mayweather-talk-bradley-cotto--49159




It is clear that Floyd was never interested in fighting Pacquiao and never will be.
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No surprises there, Mayweather was never interested in fighting Manny.
 
Ben Stiller said:
I'm passed caring now.

Shame really.
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Most fans have stropped caring about this fight now.

Just a shame that we may never see the 2 best fighters of their era fighting against each other due to cowardliness by both sides.
 
Cotto has a better record than manny and with FMJ going up to cottos weight maybe it will be a decent fight. Sick of the manny flloyd scenario. If manny wanted it that bad he would have signed for 40 million. Who wouldnt??? Hed make five times thaf from promotions a rematch and future fights if he won!!!!
 
Should be a great fight, Mayweather v Cotto at Cottos best weight will be a better and tougher fight for Floyd than Floyd v Manny. I'll go for Mayweather via decision but it will be very hard and wouldn't surprise me if it was very close e.g. split decision
 
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