NEW YORK CITY ? Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) import recruiter Sam Unera said the other day he could convince former heavyweight boxing champion and close friend Larry Holmes to put up a $2 Million purse for Manny Pacquiao to face either Paulie Ayala or Erik Morales in a blockbuster featherweight duel in Manila or the US.
Unera, whom I met on the Northwest Airlines flight from Manila to Detroit via Nagoya a few days ago, said Pacquiao?s recent knockout victory over Marco Antonio Barrera in San Antonio installed the hard-hitting Filipino as the hottest ticket in the sport?s lighter divisions today.
Holmes lives in Scranton, close to where Unera resides with his family in Allentown. Holmes? daughter used to be a cheerdancer for the United States Basketball League (USBL) club Pennsylvania Valley Dawgs whose general manager is Unera.
