Top Rank promoter Bob Arum says that the planned lawsuits against Golden Boy Promotions will proceed even as he revealed that the major litigation will be against Golden Boy for the promotional rights of pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao.
In a lengthy interview with Greg Leon of Boxing Talk, Arum said that as a result of the settlement he had reached with Golden Boy Promotions over the Pacquiao contract which was resolved through arbitration, Golden Boy Promotions was making money on Pacquiao fights and that he was “going before the arbitrator to get that removed and that’s going to cost them millions of dollars.”
Arum told Leon that it would include the profit that Golden Boy would have gotten from the Cotto fight which is probably between $1.5 - $2 million on their end.” Arum said the Golden Boy take on Pacquiao fights is about to go “bye bye.”
Arum insisted in his conversation with Leon that “Manny Pacquiao is 100% an honest kid. He’s never cheated and virtually every doctor except for this guy from USADA says you can determine everything from urine analysis. People in that organization hate that guy that has been a loudmouth. Ask him how many blood tests there were from 29 days before the Olympics until after the competition was over. You know what the answer is? ZERO. If they didn’t do any blood tests until after the athlete competed what the hell are they talking about? What are we trying to subject these fighters to?”
Arum and Pacquiao who had agreed to having Pacquiao’s blood tested one d ay before the kickoff press conference to announce the fight officially, 30 days before the fight and in the dressing room immediately after the planned March 13 bout conceded that there is a need for better standards of testing. He told Boxing Talk that while he thinks there should be more pre-fight urinalysis the doctors and experts Top Rank consulted have said that “ every single thing that can be picked up in blood, is better picked up in urine analysis. The only reason they do the blood after the guy competes is because they freeze the blood and it stays good for eight years, the urine decomposes after a while. If they want to take blood after the fight, if they want to freeze it fine, who gives a shit? But that’s why there’s no blood testing until after the competition at the Olympics and that’s something this scumbag never said.”
The astute Top Rank promoter who remain livid over the allegations that Pacquiao was on performance enhancing drugs referred to this reporter’s conversation with Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer in h is office last September before the Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez fight in which Schaefer told us he was sure Pacquiao was on some performance enhancing drug although in the face of a planned huge lawsuit, Schaefer denied making the statement although he confirmed the other details of the meeting in the Golden Boy Promotions conference room
Arum said there was no way he would bend after he learned what Schaefer told us. He told Leon “ And his dialogue with this creep from the USADA started in September. We have evidence of that, we have all of the inside stuff. This is a whole campaign on his and that creep Oscar’s part to smear Pacquiao because he chose us over them. I’ll bet you all the money in the world, I don’t know this for a fact, but this whole idea was put in their ear by Schaefer.”
Even WBC president Don Jose Sulaiman Sulaiman told www.insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports from his home in Mexico “Manny has had many WBC title fights . He’s always been clean. I know him as a decent, exceptional, clean person and I don’t think it was fair” for such allegations about being on performance-enhancing drugs to be made.
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