By Matt Stolow, Examiner.com
Congressman-elect Manny Pacquiao's boxing promoter, Bob Arum, doesn't need any inspiration. But it appears he will have it as he makes his way from General Santos City to Las Vegas and takes out a yellow pad and makes a Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight work over his approximate 14-hour flight.
Neither Arum, nor any foreigners, legally could do much more than support Pacquiao emotionally as it's against the law there during election periods. He couldn't speak publicly nor do interviews on the politics there.
How to make Mayweather vs. Pacquiao:
I say let them fight however each wants regarding blood-doping and let the one who did the anti-doping testing have an asterisk after his name win or lose.
Maybe it's not the very best idea out there, but the fight gets made already.
Once you pass 33 and one - half years old you are out of your physical boxing prime. I'm also giving Mayweather an additional 6 months because he did retire for 22 months, but when he came back against Juan Manuel Marquez he was as sharp as a razor with no rust.
There are so many factors that we have to go over again to make this fight. Cowboys Stadium could be available in mid November while the Cowboys are on the road for two weeks and it's going to take that long to get the stadium ready.
Otherwise it will have to be made for after late January at the earliest - after the Cowboys' season. Granted, nobody wants to travel to Texas in late January because its weather is unpredictable.
Coming back from long fights with new champions and losers Arum can handle, but the thought of a popular welterweight politician is new for Arum.
Source: examiner.com
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Mayweather-Pacquiao bout still possible, says Arum -- ABS-CBN News
abs-cbnNEWS.com
MANILA, Philippines – A historic prize fight between current pound-for-pound champ Manny Pacquiao and undefeated boxing sensation Floyd Mayweather Jr. is still a possibility, according to Top Rank, Inc. head honcho Bob Arum.
Arum arrived in Manila Thursday morning then proceeded to General Santos City
to support his ward's political campaign. The Filipino boxing sensation is seeking to clinch the Sarangani Province congressional seat on May 10.
Arum said he is certain that Pacquiao will be victorious in his second political bid.
“I’m excited to be able to introduce him in the next fight as Congressman Manny Pacquiao,” he said.
After the elections, Arum said he hopes to negotiate for the much-clamored showdown between Pacquiao and Mayweather.
“Yes I'm going to try to make it happen, I think it can… Sometime towards the end of the year,” the Top Rank head remarked.
Pacquiao and Mayweather were slated to fight on March 13 but they disagreed on the Olympic-style drug testing protocol.
According to Arum, he believes the disagreement can be ironed out so that the fight will push through. “I'm not going to give details but I think we can work it out,” he added.
He added that Mayweather, who defeated Shane Mosley via unanimous decision on May 1, cannot keep running away from the Pacquiao bout. “He's got nowhere else to go," he stated.
Aside from Arum, several boxing writers from the US also arrived in the country to get more news about the 7-division world champ.
Said Bill Dwyre of the Los Angeles Times: “Anything I write about Manny gets incredible readership.” – With a report from Dyan Castillejo, ABS-CBN News
Source: abs-cbnnews.com
MANILA, Philippines – A historic prize fight between current pound-for-pound champ Manny Pacquiao and undefeated boxing sensation Floyd Mayweather Jr. is still a possibility, according to Top Rank, Inc. head honcho Bob Arum.
Arum arrived in Manila Thursday morning then proceeded to General Santos City to support his ward's political campaign. The Filipino boxing sensation is seeking to clinch the Sarangani Province congressional seat on May 10.Arum said he is certain that Pacquiao will be victorious in his second political bid.
“I’m excited to be able to introduce him in the next fight as Congressman Manny Pacquiao,” he said.
After the elections, Arum said he hopes to negotiate for the much-clamored showdown between Pacquiao and Mayweather.
“Yes I'm going to try to make it happen, I think it can… Sometime towards the end of the year,” the Top Rank head remarked.
Pacquiao and Mayweather were slated to fight on March 13 but they disagreed on the Olympic-style drug testing protocol.
According to Arum, he believes the disagreement can be ironed out so that the fight will push through. “I'm not going to give details but I think we can work it out,” he added.
He added that Mayweather, who defeated Shane Mosley via unanimous decision on May 1, cannot keep running away from the Pacquiao bout. “He's got nowhere else to go," he stated.
Aside from Arum, several boxing writers from the US also arrived in the country to get more news about the 7-division world champ.
Said Bill Dwyre of the Los Angeles Times: “Anything I write about Manny gets incredible readership.” – With a report from Dyan Castillejo, ABS-CBN News
Source: abs-cbnnews.com
Bob Arum Arrives In Philippines: 'My Job Is to Support Manny Pacquiao' -- FanHouse
By Nancy Gay, FanHouse
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines -- Mid-morning has seen a celebrity arrive at the East Asia Royale Hotel near Manny Pacquiao's compound and home base. Boxing promoter Bob Arum, dressed in a tropical weight gray T-shirt and slacks, has come straight here from his home in Las Vegas.
His mission today: to accompany Pacquiao and his campaign convoy to a rally two hours away in Sarangani province.
"You've got to understand -- I'm not here to talk about boxing. I'm not here as a boxing promoter, but as a wanna-be James Carville," says Arum, who refuses to speculate whether the highly anticipated mega-bout between his client, Pacquiao, and Floyd Mayweather will ever happen, Olympic-style drug testing or not.
This is Arum's ninth trip to the Philippines to attend to Pacquiao's needs. They discuss his career, they meet for training camps.
On this trip, Arum says he is only here to support Pacquiao's run for Congress in Sarangani.
"I haven't talked to Manny about boxing since I congratulated him on the Clottey fight," Arum said of Pacquiao's most recent victory over Ghanian fighter Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in March.
So there will be no talk about Mayweather.
As Arum drinks a cup of coffee, two star-struck teenage boys beg for a photo. Arum gets up, puts his arm around the boys and smiles widely for the father's camera.
"That'll be on Facebook soon enough," one Arum employee calls out, and the restaurant erupts in laughter.
As Pacquiao's promoter, Arum is easily recognizable to Filipino sports fans. "But if [trainer] Freddie Roach walked in here," Arum says, "nobody would even look at me."
Why would Arum travel thousands of miles from his Las Vegas comfort zone to spend several days in the steamy southern reaches of Mindanao island? He says he believes in what Pacquiao wants to do for his people -- to help lift them from their poverty as a public servant, rather than a boxing hero.
Pacquiao's failed 2007 run for the House of Representatives "was totally amateur," Arum says. "This one is more professionally run."
According to Arum, local polls and anecdotal samplings of the people suggest Pacquiao, 31, is leading his 61-year-old opponent from an entrenched political clan, Roy Chiangbian, by a 60-40 margin.
Pacquiao's impassioned speeches during recent political rallies are much improved, Arum says. "No matter how much from the heart his message is, he's got to be more organized," the promoter says.
Does Pacman stand a chance?
Arum concedes that politics in the Philippines "are corrupt -- the people who win are from powerful political families.
"They have no interest in doing anything other than lining their pockets," Arum says. "Manny has the will and the desire to really inspire change. Food, water, schools -- he wants to build a hospital. There isn't even a hospital in Sarangani."
The promoter has a vested interest in seeing his most famous cash cow remain in the boxing ring. But Arum says he is an absolute believer in Pacquiao's mission to improve the lives of impoverished Filipinos who experience the hardscrabble life that defined Pacman's childhood here.
"When you grow up in the poverty that Manny did -- poverty that you and I can't even comprehend -- when you get away from it, you either want to stay away and, like Mayweather, live through your cars and your homes," Arum says. "Or you can have this desire to lift up the people, which Manny apparently has."
Pacquiao is such a devout Catholic, he conducts a full Mass before and after each boxing match. He wears rosary beads and prays constantly.
"He's a very spiritual person. He credits his success to God. He really does," Arum says. "And I think he has a calling from God to improve the lives of his people."
And what if Pacquiao should win the May 10 election, and announce to Arum and the sporting world that he is stepping away from boxing?
"Then I'd throw a retirement party for him," Arum says. "I don't care if people don't believe that. He's a very special person and I'm not going to interfere with that.
"I'm here to help him. Whichever direction he goes, my job is to be supportive. That's why I'm over here, to see what little I can do to help him get elected."
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines -- Mid-morning has seen a celebrity arrive at the East Asia Royale Hotel near Manny Pacquiao's compound and home base. Boxing promoter Bob Arum, dressed in a tropical weight gray T-shirt and slacks, has come straight here from his home in Las Vegas.
His mission today: to accompany Pacquiao and his campaign convoy to a rally two hours away in Sarangani province.
"You've got to understand -- I'm not here to talk about boxing. I'm not here as a boxing promoter, but as a wanna-be James Carville," says Arum, who refuses to speculate whether the highly anticipated mega-bout between his client, Pacquiao, and Floyd Mayweather will ever happen, Olympic-style drug testing or not.
This is Arum's ninth trip to the Philippines to attend to Pacquiao's needs. They discuss his career, they meet for training camps.
On this trip, Arum says he is only here to support Pacquiao's run for Congress in Sarangani.
"I haven't talked to Manny about boxing since I congratulated him on the Clottey fight," Arum said of Pacquiao's most recent victory over Ghanian fighter Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in March.
So there will be no talk about Mayweather.
As Arum drinks a cup of coffee, two star-struck teenage boys beg for a photo. Arum gets up, puts his arm around the boys and smiles widely for the father's camera.
"That'll be on Facebook soon enough," one Arum employee calls out, and the restaurant erupts in laughter.
As Pacquiao's promoter, Arum is easily recognizable to Filipino sports fans. "But if [trainer] Freddie Roach walked in here," Arum says, "nobody would even look at me."
Why would Arum travel thousands of miles from his Las Vegas comfort zone to spend several days in the steamy southern reaches of Mindanao island? He says he believes in what Pacquiao wants to do for his people -- to help lift them from their poverty as a public servant, rather than a boxing hero.
Pacquiao's failed 2007 run for the House of Representatives "was totally amateur," Arum says. "This one is more professionally run."
According to Arum, local polls and anecdotal samplings of the people suggest Pacquiao, 31, is leading his 61-year-old opponent from an entrenched political clan, Roy Chiangbian, by a 60-40 margin.
Pacquiao's impassioned speeches during recent political rallies are much improved, Arum says. "No matter how much from the heart his message is, he's got to be more organized," the promoter says.
Arum concedes that politics in the Philippines "are corrupt -- the people who win are from powerful political families.
"They have no interest in doing anything other than lining their pockets," Arum says. "Manny has the will and the desire to really inspire change. Food, water, schools -- he wants to build a hospital. There isn't even a hospital in Sarangani."
The promoter has a vested interest in seeing his most famous cash cow remain in the boxing ring. But Arum says he is an absolute believer in Pacquiao's mission to improve the lives of impoverished Filipinos who experience the hardscrabble life that defined Pacman's childhood here.
"When you grow up in the poverty that Manny did -- poverty that you and I can't even comprehend -- when you get away from it, you either want to stay away and, like Mayweather, live through your cars and your homes," Arum says. "Or you can have this desire to lift up the people, which Manny apparently has."
Pacquiao is such a devout Catholic, he conducts a full Mass before and after each boxing match. He wears rosary beads and prays constantly.
"He's a very spiritual person. He credits his success to God. He really does," Arum says. "And I think he has a calling from God to improve the lives of his people."
And what if Pacquiao should win the May 10 election, and announce to Arum and the sporting world that he is stepping away from boxing?
"Then I'd throw a retirement party for him," Arum says. "I don't care if people don't believe that. He's a very special person and I'm not going to interfere with that.
"I'm here to help him. Whichever direction he goes, my job is to be supportive. That's why I'm over here, to see what little I can do to help him get elected."
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
Optimistic Arum: We can make Mayweather-Pacquiao for November -- Examiner
By Michael Marley, Examiner.com
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 12:
BOB ARUM SPEAKS UPON LANDING IN GENSAN:
“No question now, especially since both of their last fights are perceived as walkovers, that 99.5 percent of the public wants to see Manny Pacquiao fight Floyd Mayweather next. Those two bouts were not competitive because both guys are so good.
“This is the biggest fight of all time, Mayweather against Pacquiao, and it has to happen. Now the fight is doable.
“I mean, out of 100 people, over 99.5 percent want this fight next. The other .5 percent, they don't care and they don't really give a spit. With any big fight, there is a right time to make the fight.
“The public demand reminds of when Muhammad Ali fought Joe Frazier the first time in 1971 so you have to everything you can (as a promoter) to support that, to make it happen.
“I had my doubts on Mayweather wanting it but now Floyd now genuinely wants the fight against Manny. Floyd knows you can't putter around. For right now, I will not talk about negotiations and I won't go into negotiations showing my cards. These issues have to be talked about in private, not in public, and that was the mistake by Mayweather's people last time we tried to make it.
“I don't want that to happen again. If everything goes well, a good time for that fight would be November, that would be a perfect time.”
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—Like the cinematic “Blues Brothers,” Jake and Elwood, Manny Pacquiao is on a mission from God.
That is what just landed promoter Bob Arum said upon his arrival here after flights from Las Vegas to Manila and then Manila to Pacman's hometown.
Arum arrived just in time, about 10 a.m. Thursday local time, to head out for an afternoon political rally in Sarangani as his Congressional campaign against billionaire Roy Chiongbian winds down. Voting for the office takes place, along with many other local and national elections including a battle for the Philippine presidency, on Monday.
Arum said something that he's told me before, that he will never go against the Pinoy Idol's political ambitions because the fighter is drawing on divine inspiration.
“Manny credits all his success to God, he really does,” the 78 year old Arum said. “Manny really feels he has a calling from God to run for office and to help the people, especially the poorest of the poor.
“It is not window dressing with Manny, it's a real spirituality just like another of my fighters, the rabbi to be and world junior middleweight champion, Yuri Foreman. Manny believes he is being directed by God so you cannot try to push him in another direction.
“My role is to be supportive here, I am not here to talk about (Floyd) Mayweather or any other fights. I did not come here with any fight offers, for Mayweather or anyone else. I don't want to distract Manny from the election campaign.
“I'm here, in a limited way, as his political adviser,” Arum said, joking. “So I am a would be James Carville in this election.”
Arum said a misguided report that Pacman would fight Mayweather on Sept. 10 is “totally absurd.
“Who could properly stage such a big fight so close to Labor Day? I don't know where that one came from.”
Arum said he took Lunesta 3, a sleeping medication, to make his 13 hour flight from Vegas with a stopover in Vancouver easier to bear.
“They treat me great on Philippine Air Lines,” Arum said. “I have made nine trips over here to see Manny. They all know me.
“My only job here is to see that the new congressman from Sarangani gets elected, meaning Manny Pacquiao.
“When I get back to the States, after the elections here, I will go to work on the Mayweather fight. As a foreigner here, I am restricted and rightly so, from political participation. I am just here in support of Manny's ambition which is to help his own people.”
Arum said that should Pacman grant Mommy Aleng Dionesia's wish that he retire from the ring, he will also support that.
“I personally don't see that,” Arum said. “But, if Manny makes that decision, will support. I will throw him a big retirement party but I don't think this is what he will do."
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
MICHAEL MARLEY'S PHILIPPINE DIARY, PART 12:
BOB ARUM SPEAKS UPON LANDING IN GENSAN:
“No question now, especially since both of their last fights are perceived as walkovers, that 99.5 percent of the public wants to see Manny Pacquiao fight Floyd Mayweather next. Those two bouts were not competitive because both guys are so good.
“This is the biggest fight of all time, Mayweather against Pacquiao, and it has to happen. Now the fight is doable.
“I mean, out of 100 people, over 99.5 percent want this fight next. The other .5 percent, they don't care and they don't really give a spit. With any big fight, there is a right time to make the fight.
“The public demand reminds of when Muhammad Ali fought Joe Frazier the first time in 1971 so you have to everything you can (as a promoter) to support that, to make it happen.
“I had my doubts on Mayweather wanting it but now Floyd now genuinely wants the fight against Manny. Floyd knows you can't putter around. For right now, I will not talk about negotiations and I won't go into negotiations showing my cards. These issues have to be talked about in private, not in public, and that was the mistake by Mayweather's people last time we tried to make it.
“I don't want that to happen again. If everything goes well, a good time for that fight would be November, that would be a perfect time.”
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—Like the cinematic “Blues Brothers,” Jake and Elwood, Manny Pacquiao is on a mission from God.
That is what just landed promoter Bob Arum said upon his arrival here after flights from Las Vegas to Manila and then Manila to Pacman's hometown.
Arum arrived just in time, about 10 a.m. Thursday local time, to head out for an afternoon political rally in Sarangani as his Congressional campaign against billionaire Roy Chiongbian winds down. Voting for the office takes place, along with many other local and national elections including a battle for the Philippine presidency, on Monday.
Arum said something that he's told me before, that he will never go against the Pinoy Idol's political ambitions because the fighter is drawing on divine inspiration.
“Manny credits all his success to God, he really does,” the 78 year old Arum said. “Manny really feels he has a calling from God to run for office and to help the people, especially the poorest of the poor.
“It is not window dressing with Manny, it's a real spirituality just like another of my fighters, the rabbi to be and world junior middleweight champion, Yuri Foreman. Manny believes he is being directed by God so you cannot try to push him in another direction.
“My role is to be supportive here, I am not here to talk about (Floyd) Mayweather or any other fights. I did not come here with any fight offers, for Mayweather or anyone else. I don't want to distract Manny from the election campaign.
“I'm here, in a limited way, as his political adviser,” Arum said, joking. “So I am a would be James Carville in this election.”
Arum said a misguided report that Pacman would fight Mayweather on Sept. 10 is “totally absurd.
“Who could properly stage such a big fight so close to Labor Day? I don't know where that one came from.”
Arum said he took Lunesta 3, a sleeping medication, to make his 13 hour flight from Vegas with a stopover in Vancouver easier to bear.
“They treat me great on Philippine Air Lines,” Arum said. “I have made nine trips over here to see Manny. They all know me.
“My only job here is to see that the new congressman from Sarangani gets elected, meaning Manny Pacquiao.
“When I get back to the States, after the elections here, I will go to work on the Mayweather fight. As a foreigner here, I am restricted and rightly so, from political participation. I am just here in support of Manny's ambition which is to help his own people.”
Arum said that should Pacman grant Mommy Aleng Dionesia's wish that he retire from the ring, he will also support that.
“I personally don't see that,” Arum said. “But, if Manny makes that decision, will support. I will throw him a big retirement party but I don't think this is what he will do."
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
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