Floyd Mayweather Ready to Make Manny Pacquiao a More Reasonable Offer?

Mayweather vs Cotto Tickets - What’s truly amazing about this boxing soap opera that we recognize as the rivalry between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Maywearther Jr. isn’t that they haven’t agreed to fight yet. No, that’s the second most amazing thing about it. The most amazing thing, though, is that neither man is prepared to let go of the prospect of this fight happening. Buy Mayweather vs Cotto Tickets

That’s really what’s most fascinating about this whole mess. If both men simply wanted to avoid each because of fear, hurt feelings or anything else – they could just do that. But that’s not the case. These two don’t want to avoid one another. That’s why they take every opportunity available to namedrop each other and, of course, to leave the door open about the bout possibly taking place at some point.
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They love all the talk and speculation.

When we last checked in with this dysfunctional couple, Mayweather had extended the most unreasonable offer in the history of boxing to his Filipino counterpart ($40 million with no cut of pay-per-view dough). Pacquiao, predictably -- after explicitly stating that he would be willing to take less money if it meant that Mayweather would agree to fight him -- rejected the offer, and said that he would take nothing less than a 50-50 split.

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