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Margarito serious, Pacquiao cordial, only Arum is spitting venom

GRAPEVINE, TEXAS?There was one emotional guy who took the mike at the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito press conference Wednesday who sounded as though he was ready to remove his suit jacket and rumble right there.

Unfortunately for the promotion, it wasn’t Nice Guy Manny or the disgraced handwrap cheater, Margarito.

The mad as hell guy was promoter Bob Arum, who is an exceptional actor as he nears age 79 next month.

Arum was buttering up the rep from the Texas boxing commission, William Kuntz, and praising the Lone State State for licensing Margarito even though California and Nevada refused to do so.

?Where other commissions feasted on innuendoes, lies and smears,? Arum snorted, ?a real American who stands up for principle did that and I mean Bill Kuntz.?

Arum also prefaced his intro of

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