Last week Freddie Roach stated, that Pacquiao would not be waiting for Mayweather to be released from prison, this was of course before the last minute decision of a Las Vegas Judge to allow Floyd Mayweather to stay out of prison until June 1st and thus allowed Mayweather to fight on May 5th at the MGM Grand Garden. The question now is does this change anything in terms of a proposed fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
It appears to be well know within the boxing industry that Pacquiao is scheduled to meet Arum in Sarangani today, discuss his next opponent, scheduled for June. At present it appears that Bob Arum will give Manny Pacquiao a short list of four opponents to choose from Juan Manuel Marquez, Miguel Cotto, Timothy Bradley and Lamont Paterson.
From previous remarks by Arum before Mayweather struck a Plea bargain to be sentence for 90 days, Arum seemed to be more interested in a fourth make up between Pacquiao and Marquez rather then a showdown between Pacquiao and Mayweather. So at this point in time it would appear that Mayweather’s availability to fight in May will not be enough to make the match up that has been in the ‘works’ for the last two years or more.
For now it is wise to proceed on the assume that Pacquiao next fight will be one of the four fights on the short listed noted above. Lets now take a look at the merits of each proposed fight.
Juan Manuel Marquez
A four fight with Marquez would be an extremely easy sell to the boxing world and general fans alike, all three of their previous meetings could have gone either way according to many. The third fight especially caused lots of controversy, with a long majority believing that Marquez did easily more then enough to win. The only real issue with making the fourth fight would be a possible Marquez reluctance due to in his eyes having the three previous fights go wrongly against him. However a big bump in purse money may just do the trick.
Miguel Cotto
Cotto is a three weight world champion and has a very good resume of wins on his record. There are however two problems to a fight between the two, the first is that Cotto now fights at Light middleweight and would probably be best advised not to drop down in weight, even to a catch weight. The second problem with this fight is would it be marketable as the two fought in 2009 and Pacquiao was seen as the easy winner. However Pacquiao can largely sell a fight on his own and Cotto still has a large following, that along with them both being Top Rank fighters could well see the fight get made.
Timothy Bradley
Bradley is a new addition to the Top Rank stable and they are well known to like to keep their fights ‘in house’ so to speak so this would be a very easy fight to sell. Add into the mix that Bradley is a undefeated former unified Light Welterweight champion. The only real draw back to this fight is that Bradley is not a ‘name’ fighter, he is a very good and slick but his not got a following to speak of. As noted above Pacquiao can sell a fight on his own so this doesn’t necessary have to be a big issue.
Lamont Peterson
Of all four of the fighters on the short list the new WBA and IBF Light Welterweight Champion, is the least likely to be Pacquiao’s next opponent. The reason is simple the WBA have ordered an immediate rematch between him and Amir Khan due to the alleged controversy of their December title fight. Therefore don’t look for a Pacquiao Peterson match up next.
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It appears to be well know within the boxing industry that Pacquiao is scheduled to meet Arum in Sarangani today, discuss his next opponent, scheduled for June. At present it appears that Bob Arum will give Manny Pacquiao a short list of four opponents to choose from Juan Manuel Marquez, Miguel Cotto, Timothy Bradley and Lamont Paterson.
From previous remarks by Arum before Mayweather struck a Plea bargain to be sentence for 90 days, Arum seemed to be more interested in a fourth make up between Pacquiao and Marquez rather then a showdown between Pacquiao and Mayweather. So at this point in time it would appear that Mayweather’s availability to fight in May will not be enough to make the match up that has been in the ‘works’ for the last two years or more.
For now it is wise to proceed on the assume that Pacquiao next fight will be one of the four fights on the short listed noted above. Lets now take a look at the merits of each proposed fight.
Juan Manuel Marquez
A four fight with Marquez would be an extremely easy sell to the boxing world and general fans alike, all three of their previous meetings could have gone either way according to many. The third fight especially caused lots of controversy, with a long majority believing that Marquez did easily more then enough to win. The only real issue with making the fourth fight would be a possible Marquez reluctance due to in his eyes having the three previous fights go wrongly against him. However a big bump in purse money may just do the trick.
Miguel Cotto
Cotto is a three weight world champion and has a very good resume of wins on his record. There are however two problems to a fight between the two, the first is that Cotto now fights at Light middleweight and would probably be best advised not to drop down in weight, even to a catch weight. The second problem with this fight is would it be marketable as the two fought in 2009 and Pacquiao was seen as the easy winner. However Pacquiao can largely sell a fight on his own and Cotto still has a large following, that along with them both being Top Rank fighters could well see the fight get made.
Timothy Bradley
Bradley is a new addition to the Top Rank stable and they are well known to like to keep their fights ‘in house’ so to speak so this would be a very easy fight to sell. Add into the mix that Bradley is a undefeated former unified Light Welterweight champion. The only real draw back to this fight is that Bradley is not a ‘name’ fighter, he is a very good and slick but his not got a following to speak of. As noted above Pacquiao can sell a fight on his own so this doesn’t necessary have to be a big issue.
Lamont Peterson
Of all four of the fighters on the short list the new WBA and IBF Light Welterweight Champion, is the least likely to be Pacquiao’s next opponent. The reason is simple the WBA have ordered an immediate rematch between him and Amir Khan due to the alleged controversy of their December title fight. Therefore don’t look for a Pacquiao Peterson match up next.
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