According to Dan Rafael or ESPN
“Manny Pacquiao has signed a contract to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. in boxing’s biggest fight on March 13, a source with knowledge of the meeting told ESPN.com on Friday night.
Pacquiao and promotor Bob Arum met for two hours Friday to discuss the proposed deal, according to Pacquiao adviser Michael Koncz, who told The Associated Press that “Manny has some additional requirements, requests, which Arum didn’t think was a problem.
“The requests of Manny were so realistic that Arum doesn’t feel it’s a problem and it’s pretty much a done deal,” Koncz said.
Later Friday it became a done deal, at least on the Pacquiao side, when he signed the paperwork, the source said.
Mayweather had previously agreed to terms with Golden Boy Promotions, his promoter for the HBO PPV fight, but it was unclear if he had signed a contract.
The source also disclosed other aspects of the fight, which will take place at the welterweight limit of 147 pounds for Pacquiao’s title and match the top two fighters in the world, pound-for-pound.
The camps agreed to a 50-50 split of the money, which could be gargantuan. Many experts expect the fight to eclipse the all-time pay-per-view record for sales, which is the 2.44 million buys generated by Mayweather’s 2007 victory against Oscar De La Hoya.”
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4715684
My take on it I can’t wait to see these two head to head personally I think this will be a trilogy, I highly doubt there will be only one fight all this money on the table two of the BEST fighters in the world going head to head unless it’s a complete lop sided victory on the side of Mayweather there will be rematch FOR SURE.
If Pacquiao were to knock out Floyd in this fight there WILL be a rematch because Floyd is undefeated “at the moment” and it will be his chance to redeem himself and finally show the boxing public that he can come back from a defeat. Then again this is Mayweather were talking about so you never know.
Who Will win?
My money’s on Mayweather TKO in the 10th round I suspect him taking over the fight at about the 3rd round and dominating it from that point on. I don’t like Manny’s chances especially now that the bout is so close, if it was in May I think he could better prepare for Mayweather, but March 13 I highly doubt it. Because Manny “in my opinion” will have to change his style or at least tweak it a bit if he really expects to beat Mayweather who unlike most fighters won’t take Manny lightly.
