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Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said today that if his fighter Manny Pacquiao looks good against WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas on November 5, they might look at middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin for Manny to fight.

Arum had to be kidding, but it’s hard to know for sure. Putting Pacquiao in with Golovkin would be one sure fire way to bring the Filipino fighter’s pay-per-view numbers back up to over 1 million buys where they used to be at.

Arum said this about Pacquiao vs. Golovkin in today’s teleconference call as quoted by Dan Rafael:

“Manny may look so good in this fight (vs Vargas) we may look for Golovkin next!”

Arum might as well throw Pacquiao in the ring with GGG, because he’s not going to get a lot of PPV buys if all Arum does is match him against Terence Crawford, one of his other Top Rank stable fighters. I’m sorry, but Crawford IS NOT a pay-per-view fighter. We just that clearly with the reported 50,000 buys that Crawford’s fight against Viktor Postol brought in last July on HBO PPV. I don’t think that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will come out of retirement to face Pacquiao again. That ship has sailed.

Would have to be at 154 for Pacquiao to stand any chance, even then I don't give him much.

He's 84. He doesn't give a fcuk.

DannyMCR wrote:Would have to be at 154 for Pacquiao to stand any chance, even then I don't give him much.

I love that you dignifying this attention grab from Bob arum with some good logical thought..

It's not worth thinking about in real terms as its total nonsense, yet another guy in arum who's trying to show and promote the toughness of his fighter ( as well as the ambition) by using GGG's name and reputation.

The truth is few boxing fans are intrested in pac mans latest fight, he's been on the slide for some time as have all the fortunes of the Wilde card fighters!

A gym and a man in roach that could do no wrong but these days seems to do little else but wrong.

I remember the pac man that fort like a lion against margarito to a unanimous decision win, that was nothing short of breath taking from the obviously smaller pacquiao. Indeed both men were true warriors that night..

Fast forward 6 years and pacquiao looks a shadow of that man, still very good no doubt but what happened to the man who crossed the ropes to face margarito? What happened to the wild card gym?

Ruthless-RKO wrote:Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said today that if his fighter Manny Pacquiao looks good against WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas on November 5, they might look at middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin for Manny to fight.

Arum had to be kidding, but it’s hard to know for sure. Putting Pacquiao in with Golovkin would be one sure fire way to bring the Filipino fighter’s pay-per-view numbers back up to over 1 million buys where they used to be at.

Arum said this about Pacquiao vs. Golovkin in today’s teleconference call as quoted by Dan Rafael:

“Manny may look so good in this fight (vs Vargas) we may look for Golovkin next!”

Arum might as well throw Pacquiao in the ring with GGG, because he’s not going to get a lot of PPV buys if all Arum does is match him against Terence Crawford, one of his other Top Rank stable fighters. I’m sorry, but Crawford IS NOT a pay-per-view fighter. We just that clearly with the reported 50,000 buys that Crawford’s fight against Viktor Postol brought in last July on HBO PPV. I don’t think that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will come out of retirement to face Pacquiao again. That ship has sailed.

Dan Rafael made it crystal clear in his Twitter feed that Arum was joking. We shouldn't take everything literally, because everyone is allowed to make the occasional light-hearted insincere remark.