“It’s not about what’s best for the fighter. It’s clear as to why the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight has never happened. It’s always about what’s best for Bob and his agenda…Let me ask you something, why is it that Bob can do a co-promotion with everybody else out there? He can do a co-promotion with anyone, DiBella, this guy, that guy, but he won’t do a co-promotion when it comes to Manny Pacquiao fighting somebody. Whoever Manny fights, he has to fight in-house. Why is that do you think? I wonder why…I know that Michael Koncz says that he’s having a meeting with Bob to negotiate the Mayweather fight. They’re having a meeting on how to make sure that this fight doesn’t happen. That’s what their meeting is about…We still are sticking firm. I think that’s the fight that everybody wants to see. Here’s the thing, Dana White is 100% absolutely correct. Bob Arum is a greedy pig. Now I see…Arum hates Floyd Mayweather, can’t stand him, doesn’t want to see him make a dollar, can’t stand Golden Boy, doesn’t want to do business with them, but instead of doing what’s best for the sport, what’s best for the fans, and what’s best for the fighters because they’ll get the payday of a lifetime, no, it’s all about him…Unless you can tell me and convince me otherwise, because I’m thoroughly convinced and believe that Floyd really does want to have this fight. I think he really wants to have this fight. As far as he knows, he’s right. He’s right. Bob is the one interfering,” stated a heated Alex Ariza, who had a lot to get off of his chest about things that he’s not thankful for, namely promoter Bob Arum, who not only has been interfering with he and Freddie Roach’s relationship with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., but is also standing in the way of a mega-fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. You do not want to miss what else he had to say in this eplosive interview. Check it out!
BT: Alex, congratulations on Julio’s impressive win this past weekend. I was really surprised to see him come out boxing on his toes the way he was. Was that by design? Did you guys go into the fight with the expectation to outbox Manfredo?
AA: You know, Freddie told Julio, he says, “He’s talking about retiring. He’s talking about this being possibly his last fight. I think that he’s going to come out really, really hard and strong early.” So from the get-go, Freddie told him, “I want you to box. I want you to establish the jab.” I think I told you the last time that if he was going to change his game plan, we had something ready for him. So Julio maintained discipline and he really just stuck to it, and he did exactly what the game plan really was. He [Freddie] said he was supposed to stick with the jab, start landing it, get the timing down, break him down and then go for the knockout. Thankfully, it worked out that way.
