Arum getting in the way of Pacquiao-Mayweather fight

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  1. truebluefan

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    It is disheartening to see one of the biggest fights in boxing never take place due to a promoter. First, Bob Arum has been preoccupied in making Floyd Mayweather Jr. look bad, than a real effort towards making the biggest fight happen. Now, we are told that Arum says Manny Pacquiao will face Juan Manuel Marquez for the fourth time before he can fight Floyd.

    What comes in my mind is; what is Pacquiao going to prove in a fourth fight that he couldn’t in three? Why can’t Pacquiao have the fourth grudge match with Marquez after Floyd?

    Simple logic will tell you that Arum and Freddy Roach have been cleverly getting the best out of Manny while it lasted. A fight with Floyd would definitively end the Manny era and Arum and Roach understands this very well. Roach and Arum have marketed and made millions out of the Pacman, it would be stupid to let the cash cow go without ensuring that no more milk can be milked. By the time Roach and Arum are done with the Pacman, he will just be a shell of himself with just a name from his past. We have seen this before, and it is not strange.

    Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2011/11/arum-getting-in-the-way-of-pacquiao-mayweather-fight/#more-87268
     

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