Mayweather vs Pacquiao: Don't Believe Money's Claim Superfight Will Never Happen

There is way too much money sitting on the table for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao to not step into the ring and attempt to beat each other's brains out. 

Making this happen, is clearly not going to be easy. In fact, as great as that fight promises to be, it is not going to be as competitive or involve as much strategy as the events taking place trying to get this fight to happen. 

We've already seen disagreements over drug testing and payouts as insults and a lawsuit have been launched towards each other. All why estimations of the total revenue this bout would generate are tossed around that would make every other fighter in the history of the sport sprinting to sign on the bottom line. 

Yet, here is Floyd Mayweather, following his unanimous decision victory over Miguel Cotto last Saturday, telling us the fight will never happen. 

This needs to be seen as another public negotiation tactic, rather than a statement of absolute fact. With Bob Arum involved or not, sometime this fight will happen. Neither guy will be able to pass up the kind of money available to them. For this last fight, Floyd Mayweather earned a boxing record $32 million. 

The New York Times' Greg Bishop reported the numbers and passed along the fact with other revenue streams, like the pay-per-view take, he could end up making $45 or $50 million from this fight. 

And that was fighting for Miguel Cotto! Cotto was a strong opponent and a decent draw, but that is nothing compared to what would be available to be made in this fight. 

In light of that, the $40 million Money says he offered Pac-Man certainly seems a little light, but that is decent starting point. 

Remember, this is a negotiation, and these two will get more and more motivation to negotiate with a greater intent of getting it done. 

This kind of money is not going to be available to them forever. While they both are getting paydays beyond the wildest dreams of most, their window for those paydays is quickly closing. 

Are they going to want to let that close before capitalizing on a fight that would likely earn them double what they are making in any other fight? 

Can you see the flamboyant Mayweather or Pacquiao, who supports a posse roughly the size of a small nation, walking away from that kind of money? I can't. They will get this done.