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Bob Arum has been trying to finalise the following fights, several of which won't be televised by HBO:

• Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn (April 22nd)
• Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Jezreel Corrales (April 15th)
• Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs. Yunieski Gonzalez (April 15th)
• Oscar Valdez vs. Nonito Donaire (April 22nd)
• Gilberto Ramirez vs. Jesse Hart (April 22nd)
• Jessie Magdaleno vs. TBC (April 22nd)
• Felix Verdejo vs. Terry Flanagan (June 10th)
• Joseph Parker vs. Hughie Fury (April 1st or 8th)
• Billy Joe Saunders vs. Ryota Murata (May)

Details of the discussions that Dan Rafael had with Bob Arum are contained within an article published by ESPN earlier on today:
• "Top Rank's Bob Arum plotting and planning fights"

Thoughts?

I wouldn't have thought Arum has anything to do with either Parker or Hughie Fury so that one kinda confuses me to see on the list. Most of the rest of those matchups are whatever.

Verdejo vs Flanagan is probably the most interesting.

gilgamesh wrote:I wouldn't have thought Arum has anything to do with either Parker or Hughie Fury so that one kinda confuses me to see on the list. Most of the rest of those matchups are whatever.

Joseph Parker entered into a co-promotional deal with Top Rank on the 6th December, 2016.

Enlightened-One wrote:Bob Arum has been trying to finalise the following fights, several of which won't be televised by HBO:

• Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn (April 22nd)
• Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Jezreel Corrales (April 15th)
• Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs. Yunieski Gonzalez (April 15th)
• Oscar Valdez vs. Nonito Donaire (April 22nd)
• Gilberto Ramirez vs. Jesse Hart (April 22nd)
• Jessie Magdaleno vs. TBC (April 22nd)
• Felix Verdejo vs. Terry Flanagan (June 10th)
• Joseph Parker vs. Hughie Fury (April 1st or 8th)
• Billy Joe Saunders vs. Ryota Murata (May)

Details of the discussions that Dan Rafael had with Bob Arum are contained within an article published by ESPN earlier on today:
• "Top Rank's Bob Arum plotting and planning fights"

Thoughts?

i am okay for 80 % of the fights, but pac against that nobody, come on wtf is this???? stay retired or fight against star opponents. it does 0 to his legacy.

Jip wrote:

Enlightened-One wrote:Bob Arum has been trying to finalise the following fights, several of which won't be televised by HBO:

• Manny Pacquiao vs. Jeff Horn (April 22nd)
• Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Jezreel Corrales (April 15th)
• Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs. Yunieski Gonzalez (April 15th)
• Oscar Valdez vs. Nonito Donaire (April 22nd)
• Gilberto Ramirez vs. Jesse Hart (April 22nd)
• Jessie Magdaleno vs. TBC (April 22nd)
• Felix Verdejo vs. Terry Flanagan (June 10th)
• Joseph Parker vs. Hughie Fury (April 1st or 8th)
• Billy Joe Saunders vs. Ryota Murata (May)

Details of the discussions that Dan Rafael had with Bob Arum are contained within an article published by ESPN earlier on today:
• "Top Rank's Bob Arum plotting and planning fights"

Thoughts?

i am okay for 80 % of the fights, but pac against that nobody, come on wtf is this???? stay retired or fight against star opponents. it does 0 to his legacy.

For the most part it is a waste of time listening to Arum. In late December he said the only opponents they were looking at for Pac was Crawford, and Lomanchenko. He brought up Horn and Burns only recently, and apparently decided on Horn.

Arum, for his part, stressed that Pacquiao will have the final say.

“That's up to Manny so I punt that to Manny. Manny will tell me and we have a number of opponents we're considering, a number of ways to go, a number of venues we're talking to about and nothing is going to be finalized till I go to the Philippines and do my due diligence,” Arum told Kim. - Dino Maragay (article from philstar)

The only upside I see to him picking the unknown Horn is we won't have to watch Pac vs Bradley 4, or Pac vs Vargas 2. At least it will be someone new.