Manny Pacquiao’s Left Hand Poses Big Threat to Floyd Mayweather, Convincing American To Fight Filipino Is A ‘Monumental Task’ Says Bob Arum

Floyd Mayweather is reportedly asking for the 2/3 of whatever revenue the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao super fight will get but Bob Arum, founder and president of Top Rank Promotions, is stating that Mayweather’s problem is not the money involved but rather Mayweather’s fear of Manny Pacquiao’s dangerous left hand.

As such, Arum added, it is a difficult proposition in convincing the undefeated American in spending time with the Filipino on top of the ring because of the real threat that Pacquiao actually gives him the first loss in his stellar career.

"The real problem is that Mayweather is so damn smart when it comes to boxing and he realises that of all the fighters fought and all the fighters out there that Manny poses the biggest threat. Why? Because Manny is fast, Manny can punch and Manny is left handed. Floyd never wants to fight a left handed fighter because his style is designed to fight orthodox fighters," Arum said via an exclusive from worldboxingnews.net, a reputable boxing website. "So to get Mayweather in the ring with Pacquiao is a monumental task. Not because of splits, not because of money, because Manny stands the best chance of anybody that Floyd has faced to beat him.

In the same interview, Arum also stated Mayweather’s history against left-handers saying that in one bout a lefty boxer gave him so much trouble that Mayweather chose run away from his opponent rather than indulge him in a slug-it-out affair in the middle of the ring. Even as early as February 2014, Arum’s contention has been that one of the major reasons why Mayweather won’t agree to a fight is because of the fact that Pacquiao is left-handed.

"Why? Because his whole style is geared for a right-handed fighter. And to compound that if the southpaw is really fast and moves, that would give Mayweather and his style a lot of problems, and it would really jeopardize Mayweather's record of an undefeated fighter,” Arum said earlier in 2014 via ESPN.

Arum is reportedly in serious discussions of the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight with CBS Corporation Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Leslie Moonves with multiple sports outfits confirming the said meeting. Since Pacquiao easily dispatched Chris Algieri in mid-November, the Pacquiao camp has been aggressively goading Mayweather to take the fight.