Big Al Braverman would be getting a good laugh about all the smoke blowing between the Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton camps today.
In Braverman?s view, boxing people never lie. Never, ever. To hear Big Al tell it, boxing people tell ?tales.?
Here are the silly tales running rampant right now on the May 2 fight:
1. Hatton?s lawyer will sue Pacman. For what, for an oral agreement that is not worth the paper it?s not printed on. Good chuckle for one and all from Gareth Williams. Does he think some court will order specific performance, in other words make Pacman fight Hatton or be held in contempt of court?
2. Golden Boy?s Richie Rich Schaefer will pull the plug on the match unless Megamanny agrees to a 50-50 split of the total jackpot. He will do no such thing unless he wants Hatton to jettison Golden Boy. Where else is Hatton getting this kind of money?
3. Pacman lawyer Jeng Gacal, commonly known as The Jackal, is tired of Bob Arum treating him like a potted plant. OK, this one is true as Uncle Bob does not like The Jackal advising Manny to do anything that?s not straight from the Gospel According To Top Rank.
4. But you said?I don?t care what the Pacquaio team said through Arum or through anyone else, the reason for memorialization, meaning written contracts, is to bind people to their promises and representations. Mere words do not a contract make except in the rarest of instances.
5. The fight won?t transpire. Oh, yes it will on schedule, May 2, in economically depressed Vegas in economically depressed Nevada in the economically depressed United States in the economically depressed world.
