“I think it’s been very clear who didn’t want this fight to happen and it’s Bob Arum. The fighters, at the end of the day, if you put them in there, they are going to fight. I’m not going to say a guy that has 42 professional fights and over 100 amateur fights and has been in boxing since birth is scared of anyone. I’m not going to say with the experience he has and everything that he has done in this sport, that Pacquiao is scared of anyone as well. So now you have to look at who is controlling the puppet strings. Who is the puppet master? It would be Bob Arum. Who loses the most if Pacquiao loses the fight? Bob Arum. He doesn’t have any options on Floyd Mayweather, so if Pacquiao loses, he can’t pull that Don King trick where he has options on both fighters and he is in a win-win situation. And he can make other fights. He can make the Timothy Bradley fight, and Pacquiao has been such a phenomenon that he can sell pay-per-views all by himself. You put him in against Timothy Bradley or Marquez again and those fights are going to generate around a million to a million and a half buys, and Bob Arum gets to keep all of the money because all of those guys are house fighters. It’s clear and it’s been clear for a long time that Bob Arum is the stumbling block…They are play
