MANILA, Philippines—Manny Pacquiao is being generous in offering a 50-50 split with Floyd Mayweather Jr. for their megabuck bout to push through.
Based on their last three fights, Pacquiao did better in both pay-per-view buys and live gate than Mayweather.
Pacquiao’s third fight against Juan Manuel Marquez, which ended in a majority decision for the Filipino last November, drew 1.41 million PPV hits, surpassing the 1.25M PPV buys Mayweather registered in his controversial fourth round stoppage of Victor Ortiz last September.
Against Marquez in 2009, Mayweather could only tally a million buys.
In 2010, Pacquiao notched 1.15M PPV hits against Antonio Margarito while Mayweather did 1.4M against Shane Mosley.
Despite criticisms that Mosley was a washout, Pacquiao still managed 1.3M PPV buys against Mosley last May.
Summing up their PPV buys, Pacquiao mustered 3.86M against Mayweather’s 3.65M, a discrepancy of 210,000 hits that translates to over $10,000,000 in cash.
The attendance figures are even more lopsided in Pacquiao’s favor, with the eight-division world champion posting sellouts in each of the three bouts. In contrast, none of Mayweather’s fights was a sellout.
Pacquiao’s consistent performance in both PPV and live gate did not go unnotice of course.
In the 2012 Power ranking of the world’s most powerful pro athletes, Pacquiao easily outranked Mayweather with the Sarangani congressman landing 28th among the top 100 headed by New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees.
Mayweather, the only other boxer who appeared in the roster, placed 49th according to a Jan. 25 report by Felix Strunk of Fighthype.com.
The study, conducted by CSE, an integrated sports and marketing firm based in Atlanta and Horrow Sports Ventures, equally considered an athletes’ impact on field and off field.
Given weight on field was an athletes’ ranking within his or her sport relative to all other participants.
Off field, the prime consideration was the athletes’ expected endorsement potential, along with the endorsement earnings (15 percent) and social media presence (10 percent), which took note of Facebook fans and Twitter followers.
Observers feel Mayweather has no business demanding a 60-40 split against Pacquiao. They said the American should consider himself lucky that Pacquiao is amenable to an equal revenue sharing with somebody who is about to languish in jail starting June 1.