Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. is reportedly getting $40 million to fight WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz, according to the latest boxing news. That’s huge money for Mayweather, and to get that kind of bread you got assume that Golden Boy Promotions, Mayweather’s promoters, are expecting huge pay per view numbers for the Mayweather-Ortiz bout on September 17th. I don’t know how Mayweather can make that much unless he’s getting a giant 90-10 purse split with Ortiz. Even then, I just don’t know how popular the Mayweather-Ortiz fight will prove to be among boxing fans. To be sure, Ortiz has a following among the large Mexican community in the United States but he’s only now starting to make a name for himself after beating WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto last April. Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2011/06/mayweather-guaranteed-40-million-for-ortiz-bout/#more-68977
