AS we went to press, it was reported that Miguel Cotto would be the likely foe of Manny Pacquiao in either May or June. Dropped from the list were Lamont Peterson, Juan Manuel Marquez and the unbeaten Timothy Bradley.
Before Cotto was given preferential treatment, talks were rife that Pacquiao was meeting Floyd Mayweather Jr. – finally.
But then, as in the nature of Mayweather, the unbeaten American made impossible demands again before he would fight the Filipino icon.
Foremost of Mayweather’s demands was, he wants a 60-40 split of the purse to counter Pacquiao’s offer of 50-50. If you ask me, Mayweather has always been the hardest to deal with. Or, is he just trying to play to the hilt his role of executing his psychological warfare – that is, baiting Pacquiao into tangling with him over silly issues to rattle the PacMan?
You bet.
My take is, if it should be 60-40, Pacquiao must pocket the bigger slice of the pie. Meaning, he gets 60 percent and Mayweather 40 percent.
Now, if it goes 50-50, I say Mayweather has already won the first round of the fight.
That’s one advantage May-weather can exploit in wild abandon. Mentally, he’ll be up against the one fighter that will restore his status as a world celebrity.
Thus, if I were Pacquiao, I should be the one who must play hard-to-catch, and not the other way around.
PacMan should act and think like a real champ, like the world’s pound-for-pound king for Chris-sakes!