Manny Pacquiao turned down $40 million from Floyd Mayweather in 2012, and it was a genius move

Two years after negotiations for a Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight blew up in 2010, the two fighters again failed to make a fight happen in 2012. Mayweather, in what he would later call Pacquiao’s last chance to make the fight, offered Pacquiao $40 million straight-up to fight him. “I got on the phone with Manny. I done my homework, and seen what he was used to making in big fights. So the offer that I gave him. I offered him $40 …