LA Boxing Examiner | Ricardo Lois
Tuesday Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions are going to sit down with an arbitrator, break bread, and hopefully finalize a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.
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Though millions of boxing fans across the globe hope that a bout will be sign, sealed, and delivered for March 13, I know a few people who will cross their fingers and toes hoping the bout completely falls apart.
Paulie Malignaggi and Yuri Foreman have both been mentioned as possible opponents to replace Floyd and make the payday of their careers.
Do you think Paulie and Yuri are wishing they were flies on the wall of the office where this power meeting will take place?
Sure Malignaggi might think Pacquiao is a cheat, but that will not keep him from fighting the Filipino and while making a million dollars or two. Imagine all of the artificial braids and waxing creams Paulie can purchase with that sort of loot?
[Click here to listen to Paulie Malignaggi make very serious accusations regarding Pacquiao]
Foreman might have no pop in his fists, but he is a like-able lad and holds a title which could prove to be Pacquiao's eighth in eight divisions. Nobody said Pacquiao was looking for quality in the quantity of his crowns. Foreman vs. Pacquiao? The average Joe might think Big George is coming back out of retirement.
[Watch a video interview with possible Pacquiao foe, Yuri Foreman]
But more than the negative cosmic energy members of Team Foreman and Team Malignaggi will be sending out to California tomorrow, something else could derail the negotiations tomorrow; the huge egos and bad blood that will be in the room.
Bob Arum (Top Rank) and Richard Schaefer (Golden Boy), with their respective legal counsels, will try to iron out a feud that has roots in Pacquiao jumping ship from Golden Boy to Top Rank when he was a free agent.
Remember the brief case full of cash given to Manny Pacquiao by De La Hoya? Remember Pacquiao signing with Top Rank, though he had signed with Golden Boy? Remember the legal battle that followed, only to be squashed with both promotions sharing Pacquiao's promotional rights?
With the ill feelings of that conflict still fresh in the minds of these boxing promotional behemoths, they must iron out the issues of the drug testing for Pacquiao - Mayweather, and discuss the defamation law suit filed by Pacquiao against Schaefer, Oscar De La Hoya, Roger Mayweather, Floyd Mayweather, and his father Senior.
Oh and also on the table, discussions of Golden Boy's financial stake in Pacquiao's career.
A lot is on the agenda, enough to sink THE fight, the ONLY fight boxing fans want to see during 2010 involving Pacquiao and Mayweather.
Don't look for the war to end tomorrow, but for the first blood to spill in a long, drug out rekindled feud between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions.
Source: Examiner.com
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