Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao may fight twice in 2015

By Mike Marteny | Sep 2, 2014

Apr 12, 2014; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Manny Pacquiao speaks at a press conference after receiving stitches after his bout with Timothy Bradley Jr. (not pictured) at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Pacquiao won via unanimous decision. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports /

I will believe it when I see it, but now boxing fans have a glimmer of hope that the two best pound-for-pound fighters on the planet may engage in more than just a war of words in 2015. Manny Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum claims that his man Pacquiao will fight Floyd Mayweather not just once, but twice in the 2015 calendar year.

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Daily Mail’s Jeff Powell quotes Arum as saying “Both networks want this to happen. All signs seem to point to a first fight early next year.”

Those networks would be HBO, who have the rights to Pacquaio’s fights, and Showtime, who have Mayweather under contract. Both are willing to split the massive pot worth an estimated $300 million.

The departure of Richard Schaefer of chief executive of Golden Boy promotions seems to have helped cool the feud between the two sides as well. Him and Arum were known to have cool relations at best.

Pacquiao has already agreed to Mayweather’s insistence of Olympic-standard drug testing and a bigger piece of the first purse. It would seem that the gloves are now in Mayweather’s ring. Pacquiao has done his part to get this done.

So where does this idea for a second bout come in, when they have never been able to get the two into the same ring once? Well, it’s money, of course! It is estimated that the second fight would be worth nearly half a billion dollars, with the winner of the first bout taking a larger share of the revenue for the second.

There is nothing like adding a lot of zeroes to get two guys to punch each other.