Floyd Mayweather tell Manny Pacquiao, ‘We have to make this fight happen’

On Feb. 3, when Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, complained about the lack of “urgency” shown by Floyd Mayweather’s camp, he referred to a face-to-face meeting the undefeated American held in late January with the Filipino icon in a hotel room. Arum told ESPN, “Manny and [adviser] Michael [Koncz] spent an hour or so with Mayweather in the hotel suite and they read it that, no, Mayweather really wants the fight.”

To judge from a short video Mayweather posted to his Instagram account Sunday, Pacquiao wasn’t just guessing that his counterpart wanted to make the long-awaited fight happen — Mayweather told him so, directly. Here is that video

So are we getting any closer to the fight?

Floyd Mayweather Jr v Manny Pacquiao: $200m blockbuster inches closer

HBO and Showtime have agreed on how they would broadcast a fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao, promoter Bob Arum said on Thursday, leaving only two remaining issues to be settled before the much anticipated 2 May fight can be signed. Arum told The Associated Press the rival networks have come to terms on an announcing team and other details for the pay-per-view blockbuster, and that the major financial points of the fight have been agreed to, including a reported 60-40 split in the purse in Mayweather’s favour. Based on the fight doing a record $200m or more in revenue, Mayweather’s payday could be at least $120m. He also said that talks this week have narrowed the remaining differences between the two camps.

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