During the premiere episode of "The Fight Game with Jim Lampley", promoter Bob Arum shared his thoughts on what the purse split should be for a proposed mega-fight between his fighter, 8-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, and undefeated pound-for-pound champion Floyd Mayweather. "Manny Pacquiao has now taken the position, which I endorse, if Floyd Mayweather thinks that he is the greatest fighter of all time, let's do it 45% to Mayweather, 45% to Pacquiao, and 10% to the winner, but we gotta have parity here," Arum suggested. "If Mayweather really believes that he can beat Pacquiao, which I don't think he believes, he'll pick up more than 50% that way, but it's up to Floyd."
Previously, Arum has insisted that he wouldn't even entertain the idea of anything less than an even 50/50 split, but evidently, he's had a change of heart. Of course, Arum also has his doubts that Mayweather actually wants the fight, making it easy to change his stance on something that he doesn't realistically think will happen. "It's the same mantra that we've been hearing. 'Take the tests.' Of course Pacquiao agreed 2 years ago to take full drug testing. And then the other mantra is to identify a scapegoat and the scapegoat became me. Floyd Mayweather is the school of propaganda that Joseph Goebbels came from," Arum added, suggesting that it's Mayweather, not him, who is preventing the fight from taking place.
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