Ring Magazine featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao?s new manager Shelly Finkel has assured the Filipino?s business manager Rod Nazario that he was ?looking forward to working with him.?
In an overseas telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Manila Standard, Nazario, who met with Finkel in Los Angeles, revealed that ?everything is just fine? and that the new manager had told him they were ?only changing the manager, Marty Elorde,? whose contract expired last Jan. 31.
Nazario said Finkel and his lawyers had asked for ?a full disclosure of the contract? for the March 19 showdown between Pacquiao and Erik Morales. But Nazario told him he wanted ?all talks to be stopped until after the fight,? so as not to distract Pacquiao while in the crucial stages of training for the biggest fight of his career.
Pacquiao?s business manager said Finkel assured him that ?there will be full transparency in whatever they do? and that Nazario would ?continue to handle Manny?s affairs.?
Nazario also told Finkel he hoped they ?could work harmoniously? with international promoter Murad Muhammad, who has what World Boxing Council founding secretary general and lawyer Rudy Salud has described as ?an airtight contract? to promote Pacquiao?s next two fights after Morales.
