United States pay-per-view buys on the Showtime cable network for Floyd Mayweather?s alleged last fight, against Andre Berto, are said to number not many more than 400,000. If that.
This puts Mayweather?s ?farewell? in the same television ball park as Manny Pacquiao versus Chris Algieri, for which the Money Man mocked the PacMan.
It is a far and feeble cry from the 4.4million subscribers who largely bank-rolled purses upwards of $260m for Mayweather and $120m for Pacquiao in their so-called Fight of the Century.
When it comes to the really big bucks, these two bitter and long-standing rivals need each other. Like it or not.
No re-match? Really?
As Mills Lane, perhaps the greatest of all referees, famously used to say when calling world champions to the centre of the Las Vegas rings immediately prior to the first bell: ?Let?s get it on.?
