The Logistics Behind Mayweather and Pacquiao’s 60-40 Split
ADVERTISEMENT It doesn't matter who wins the richest boxing match in history on May 2, Manny Pacquiao will still be receiving part of his pay the next business day from his promoter, Bob Arum. On Monday daylight, I will hand Manny a check for $50 million as a all along payment, guaranteed, Arum said. It is a bit more complicated than that it is a wire transfer, actually, and 30 percent of it will be shaved off for the Internal Revenue Service, Arum said. But the bottom lineage is that the long-anticipated championship welterweight assent amid Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. will earn hundreds of millions of dollars, mostly for the fighters. Mayweather will put occurring as soon as a substantial portion of his earnings unexpectedly after the brawl, said Leonard Ellerbe, chief presidency of Mayweather Promotions. He would not tune how much. I will name you this, Ellerbe said. Floyd Mayweathers check will be a lot more than $50 million. And along with it goes from there Mann...