Payday Comparisons - Mayweather vs. Pacquaio

Saw this posted on Boxing Socialist after a few Twitter feeds:

http://www.boxingsocialist.com/profiles/blogs/pacquiao-bout-purses-posted-by-nsac

https://twitter.com/#!/boxingtruth/status/162601982299881473/photo/1/large

Manny has made: $46,400,000
Mayweather has made: $91,500,001 (granted there are more pay days on the docs but still look at the comparisons of pay in recent times).

Manny previously said he would happily take a pay cut in his fight against Mayweather, seeing as he would easily make more money in this potential fight than he has ever done (even with the pay cut) why is Bob Arum ADAMENT on securing a 40,000 seated tempory arena for a fight?

Bob Arum can say what he wants about "Manny being the biggest draw in boxing" etc... the figures don't lie. Mayweather can easily bring in the money for both fighters without a 40,000 seated arena (which would cost more to build anyway).

It also makes me wonder how much of a cut Arum gets from Mannys pay packet if Mayweather can make almost double on the same opponents.

First Mayweathers imprisonment is an issue, then the date is an issue, then the arena is an issue due to the bigger draw. Give it up Arum/Pacquaio, stop looking for excuses. Manny can "secure his legacy" and walk away with the biggest payday of his life if this fight were to happen.

Arum must be taking a large vut, although Manny generated less PPV he is not that far behind.

I just think Manny is not all that clever. Despite Floyd being a clown, he clearly knows what he is worth and has a good team, Manny is the opposite.

I read an article a while ago which said Manny only had $10m left. Not a small sum, but for one of the biggest sport stars on the planet it is pretty poor.

The venue is a bit of a red herring, the money in Vegas is not in ticket sales, it is in the site fees paid by the casinos, most of the big value tickets are given up on complimentary packages to high rollers, but they are done so on the proviso and understanding that those high rollers will stay in the casino and dump a lot of money at the tables, so whatever the casino pays in site fees to secure the fight it more than makes up in the take at the tables, if a temporary arena is built not attached directly to any casino is unlikely they will pay out a lot to secure the fight.

johnson2 wrote:Arum must be taking a large vut, although Manny generated less PPV he is not that far behind.

I just think Manny is not all that clever. Despite Floyd being a clown, he clearly knows what he is worth and has a good team, Manny is the opposite.

I read an article a while ago which said Manny only had $10m left. Not a small sum, but for one of the biggest sport stars on the planet it is pretty poor.

I've said more than once on here I think Manny is quite dumb! Not trying to be offensive but truly think he comes across a bit simple and in turn easily led and manipulated.

I'm sure he'll end up with only a fraction of the money he should have.

They both earn crazy amounts but Mayweather more as too many people take from Manny. Arum takes 27% alone of his money!

Lets not forget that Roger and Ellerbe also get a fairly large chunk of Mayweathers money as well not to mention all the other hangers on.

Imperial Ghosty wrote:Lets not forget that Roger and Ellerbe also get a fairly large chunk of Mayweathers money as well not to mention all the other hangers on.

I can't imagine it compares to Manny, I could be wrong but I would say percentage wise, Manny has a bigger amount cut of his earnings.

Mayweather will probably be stupid with money as well, if you follow him on Twitter he puts stupid amounts down on bets!

Anyway, Roger only needs money to fill his pipe up!

Manny's fight camp alone must be stupid i.e. jetsetting from Phillipines to LA with about 50 people, albeit they do seem to sleep about 30 to a room! Im comparison, Floyd just trains in his own gym in his home town.

You would be surprised at how much his team get, Ellerbe as his advisor gets about 15% with Roger being the same

Imperial Ghosty wrote:You would be surprised at how much his team get, Ellerbe as his advisor gets about 15% with Roger being the same

Cheers for the insight, I thought top trainers got about that and said this about Roach a while back on here but was shot down saying the top fighters never pay that kind of money as too much for the big fights and they would instead just get a flat fee or something i.e. if Pac/Floyd got $50m for their proposed big fight together, they wouldn't get $7.5m but a flat rate much, much lower?

Just remembered... didn't Manny hire an independent account firm to check over his books recently?

Pacquiao mismanages money and business endorsements quite badly. He would go broke if he lived in the USA. But the money goes so far in the Phillipines that its unlikely he would go broke there.

manos de piedra wrote:But the money goes so far in the Phillipines that its unlikely he would go broke there.

Iv heard he is going to buy the Phillipines