The boxing match that would unquestionably be the biggest of the year -- Oscar De La Hoya vs. Manny Pacquiao -- will apparently not take place because the fighters can't agree on a revenue split.
According to Dan Rafael of ESPN.com, De La Hoya has insisted that he should receive 70% of the revenue from their fight, which could easily make $100 million. Pacquiao's camp realizes that De La Hoya is the bigger draw and will get the bigger slice of the pie, but the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world won't settle for less than 40%.
I would love to see a De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight, mostly because I think Pacquaio is the best thing going in boxing right now, and fighting De La Hoya would expose him to the biggest audience possible. But even though De La Hoya and Pacquiao both agreed that they would split their significant weight difference in and fight at 147 pounds, they couldn't agree on how to split the dollars. So the fight appears to be off.
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