The promoters don't seem to be making much headway in arranging the highly anticipated Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao megafight.
Floyd Mayweather donated $100,000 to the Susan J. Komen breast cancer charity on Thursday, making good on a promise to the Las Vegas judge who sentenced him to 87 days in jail.
Floyd Mayweather donated $100,000 to the Susan J. Komen breast cancer charity on Thursday, making good on a promise to the Las Vegas judge who sentenced him to 87 days in jail.
So Mayweather apparently took matters into his own hands, calling Pacquiao, through Pacquiao's manager, Michael Koncz, in the Philippines on Wednesday (Thursday in the Philippines) to ask him directly about fighting on May 5th in Las Vegas.
"I told him we should do the fight as long as he agrees to 50-50 sharing," Pacquiao told ThePhilippine Star during an awards dinner in Manila on Thursday.
As for the timing, Pacquiao said, "We did not talk about the date (of the fight)."
Mayweather, 34, has insisted on May 5 as a fight date since he got his 87-day jail sentence pushed back to June 1 to accommodate 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 suffered in November against Juan Manuel Marquez, and also to get a 45,000-seat temporary outdoor arena built.
Arum has said if that cannot be arranged, they could work something out for a megafight in November in Las Vegas.
Mayweather talked on Thursday to the media after donating $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer charity as part of his promise to his sentencing 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, that I truly believe is stopping the fight, is Bob Arum."
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