'Money' talks: Mayweather phones Pacquiao to discuss fight
The promoters don't seem to be making much headway in arrange the highly probable Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao megafight.
So Mayweather it seems that took matters into his own hands, calling Pacquiao, throughout Pacquiao's manager, Michael Koncz, in the Philippines on Wednesday (Thursday in the Philippines) to ask him directly regarding fighting on May 5th in Las Vegas.
"I told him we should do the fight as long as he agree to 50-50 sharing," Pacquiao told the Philippine Star during an awards dinner in Manila on Thursday.
As for a probable fight date, Pacquiao said, "We did not talk about the date (of the fight)."
Mayweather, 34, has insist on May 5 as a fight date, since he got his 87-day jail ruling pushed back to June 1 to house a May 5 fight, leaving enough time to heal from possible injuries from the fight before he begins serving his sentence.
Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter and chairman of Top Rank, has said they would need to do the fight at the end of May or early June, to give Pacquiao time to heal from a 29-stitch cut he suffer in November against Juan Manuel Marquez, and also to get a 45,000-seat provisional outdoor arena built.
Arum has said if that cannot be arranged, they could work something out for a mega fight in November in Las Vegas.
On Thursday May weather talked to the media after donating $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity as part of his assure to his sentence judge, about facing Pacquiao.
"There is no fight I want more than the Manny Pacquiao fight," he said. "I guess he said he agreed to fight. The only thing that is stopping this fight right now, which I truly believe is stop the fight, is Bob Arum."
So Mayweather it seems that took matters into his own hands, calling Pacquiao, throughout Pacquiao's manager, Michael Koncz, in the Philippines on Wednesday (Thursday in the Philippines) to ask him directly regarding fighting on May 5th in Las Vegas.
"I told him we should do the fight as long as he agree to 50-50 sharing," Pacquiao told the Philippine Star during an awards dinner in Manila on Thursday.
As for a probable fight date, Pacquiao said, "We did not talk about the date (of the fight)."
Mayweather, 34, has insist on May 5 as a fight date, since he got his 87-day jail ruling pushed back to June 1 to house a May 5 fight, leaving enough time to heal from possible injuries from the fight before he begins serving his sentence.
Bob Arum, Pacquiao's promoter and chairman of Top Rank, has said they would need to do the fight at the end of May or early June, to give Pacquiao time to heal from a 29-stitch cut he suffer in November against Juan Manuel Marquez, and also to get a 45,000-seat provisional outdoor arena built.
Arum has said if that cannot be arranged, they could work something out for a mega fight in November in Las Vegas.
On Thursday May weather talked to the media after donating $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity as part of his assure to his sentence judge, about facing Pacquiao.
"There is no fight I want more than the Manny Pacquiao fight," he said. "I guess he said he agreed to fight. The only thing that is stopping this fight right now, which I truly believe is stop the fight, is Bob Arum."
