By NICK GIONGCO, Manila BulletinFloyd Mayweather has remained silent on the breakthrough move made by Manny Pacquiao concerning the touchy issue of random drug testing even though the American fighter may have already had his mind all made up as early as February.
Talking to the Grand Rapids Press, Mayweather's hometown paper, the flashy fighter said his stand on drug-testing and purse-sharing would change if his pay-per-view numbers in the fight with Shane Mosley would do better than Pacquiao's bout with Joshua Clottey.
The Pacquiao-Clottey tiff on March 13 generated over 700,000 buys, while the Mayweather-Mosley match last May 1 drew 1.4 million buys.Mayweather told the paper: "I gave him a chance, up to 14 days out. But my new terms are all the way up to the fight. They can come get us whenever, all the way up to the fight, random drug test. That’s what it is."
And since Mayweather was able to generate more success in pay-per-view, he is of the belief that the revenue-sharing will no longer be at 50-50, which was agreed upon by the two camps during the heat of negotiations to pit them together early this year.
"Instead of 20 or 25 (million dollars), he may have to drop to 15, or 17. And you know me, they may have to throw that extra five or 10 on mine, and and we can rock and roll. Take it or leave it."
Last Wednesday, Pacquiao said he will be willing to be tested until two weeks before the proposed Nov. 13 fight with Mayweather, something that is seen by ringsiders as a sign that the Filipino is determined to salvage the fight.
Pacquiao stressed that as long as the amount that will be taken is small, he will have no problem giving out blood.
Source: mb.com.ph
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