MANILA (AFP) – Manny Pacquiao is open to taking a smaller purse in a dream match-up with undefeated American Floyd Mayweather, the Philippines boxing hero’s business manager said on Tuesday.
“The talks are already going on. It is more of what the fans want. It’s not about the pay (level). That’s the least of his concerns,” his business manager Eric Pineda told AFP.
He declined to discuss the amounts of money involved, but in 2012 there was speculation that a fight between the two could lead to the first US$200 million (S$260 million) purse in boxing history.
Pacquiao defeated Chris Algieri, another once-undefeated American boxer, in Macau on Sunday in a successful defence of his World Boxing Organisation crown before throwing down the gauntlet to Mayweather, saying “It’s been a long time since I’ve been wanting this fight, it has to happen”.
