Floyd Mayweather Jr blasted Manny Pacquiao's camp for demanding too much money for a potential showdown.
Returning undefeated star blasts cash demands from Pacquiao camp
Floyd Mayweather Jr has blasted Manny Pacquiao's camp for demanding too much money for a potential showdown between the two, while the unbeaten welterweight also claimed that Juan Manuel Marquez is better than the Filipino star.
Mayweather will climb back into the ring on September 19 after emerging from retirement, when he takes on Mexico's tough warrior Marquez in Las Vegas.
Although Marquez is a tough operator, he will be fighting at his heaviest ever weight, and the bout is seen by many as a build-up to a Mayweather v Pacquiao contest.
The clamour for current pound-for-pound king Pacquiao to face his predecessor, who retired undefeated, is huge, but Mayweather says the fight will not happen unless Top Rank promoter Bob Arum drops his financial demands.
"He wants a 50-50 split," Mayweather said Arum, his own former promoter until he bought out his contract to promote himself. "That's never going to happen.
Greedy
"If Bob Arum wasn't trying to be so greedy, that fight would happen. It still is a business even if it is a sport.
"Marquez called me out and he deserves a shot. If Manny Pacquiao really wanted a fight with me, all he has to do is say it.
"We could pay Marquez to step aside, a million dollars, step aside. Let me know. With or without Pacquiao I'm comfortable. I don't chase opponents, they chase me.
"The biggest fight in boxing isn't Mayweather v Marquez. It's Mayweather v anybody."
Mayweather insists that Marquez should be rated above Pacquaio after their two fights - at featherweight in 2005 having knocked down the Filipino three times in the first round only to be given a draw by the judges, while he lost at super-feather in 2008 on a split decision.
"If I had to rate Marquez against Pacquiao I'd have to rate him over Manny," Mayweather said. "For a guy to get knocked down three times in the first round and come back and get a draw... We know who really lost.
"And then we go to the other fight and Manny won by one point but these things happen. Marquez is a Mexican warrior and I know he's going to be at his best when he comes and faces me.
"So the only thing I've got to do is go out there and be me, be sharp and be smart."
'Money' Mayweather will soon be back in the gym following a rib injury that forced the postponement of his fight with Marquez, but he insists he will be at full strength come fight night.
