Floyd Mayweather will announce at his teasing convenience
that the richest fight in boxing history will take place in Las Vegas on May 2.
All that remains of the long wait for the best
pound-for-pound fighter in the world to take on the pretender to that mythical
title, Manny Pacquiao, is for Money Mayweather to confirm that it’s on at last.
Mayweather and the Filipino Pac-Man are to be paid a
combined purse of $250million for answering the public demand that they finally
settle their five-year argument in the ring.
The right to tell the world is one of his many stipulations
in a contract to which all parties are reliably reported to have agreed after
an eternity of wrangling.
The deal now done barring a seismic tantrum by Mayweather is
also believed to include a rematch clause for a second $300m extravaganza back
at the MGM grand in the autumn.
The minutiae of which gloves each combatant will wear, the
Olympic standard drugs testing which Mayweather has long demanded and
Pacquiao’s acquiescence to a smaller share of the fortune are all included.
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