The lawyer who introduced uncrowned world featherweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao and his business manager Rod Nazario to US promoter Murad Muhammad three years ago is furious after being eased out of the fighter?s inner circle.
Worse, San Francisco-based lawyer Sydney Jay Hall no longer earns seven percent of Pacquiao?s purses ? like he used to ? and was recently ridiculed by Muhammad in a magazine article for shopping the hard-hitting southpaw to four US promoters until he came along.
Muhammad, who once worked as a Muhammad Ali bodyguard, has claimed exclusive credit for Pacquiao?s rise to stardom. “If not for me, no one would know of Pacquiao,” said Muhammad, quoted by Ivan Goldman in World Boxing Magazine. “One reason Rod signed with me is I told him, I pull miracles.”
