Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
Floyd was arguing for the lion's share of any future purse split based on their respective PPV numbers for about a year before JMM sparked Manny. The sparking dropped the fight's overall market value and Manny's bargaining position in making the split but for a long time before it happened Floyd would only have accepted the lion's share of the purse.
Floyd did argue for awhile about the purse split, but in the end both camps agreed to a 50/50 split. In the end it fell apart because of the drug testing issue.

“The only issue was that we asked for the drug testing to take place 14 days before the fight, and everybody agreed on that except Mayweather. So that’s why the fight fell apart. The 50-50 split was never in dispute,” - Bob Arum.

But you are right, the fight would be huge now but would have been even bigger in 2010 with much more proceeds to share.

So with that considered too I really have to wonder how much money was lost by Manny for not agreeing to do drug testing that he has since done in a few of his fights.
Between the fight falling apart over drug testing and Manny getting sparked Floyd was making clear that he'd have to have the lion's share due to his PPV numbers being much higher than Manny's.

If he'd agreed to the testing four years ago he might have won! History would look a lot different than it does now. It might have even stopped Haymon trying to dominate pro boxing amongst other things. We'll never know though.