Breathless press releases and related reports and a swirl of rumors make it sound as all business operations including boxing contracts involving Pinoy Idol Manny Pacquiao have been usurped a by a crew of number-crunching accountants from Los Angeles.
Those with the wildest imaginations want it to seem as though Team Pacquiao has just been taken over in a bloodless coup d?etat reminiscent of some banana republic.
There is plenty of smoke, fire and ire in and round Pacman?s Innter Circle, this is true, and things will heat up even more when controversial Canadian adviser Michael Koncz lands in Manila Thursday morning.
But, according to promoter Bob Arum who interrupted his South of France summer vacation to speak with me, plus ca change, meme la chose.
Meaning, the more things change in Pacland, the more they will stay the same. Arum is not sweating a release put out by convicted armed robber/former LA County court bailiff and longtime steroid abuser with an obsession to become a famed bodybuilder Timothy James Sladeck.
In the release on the so-called ?official? Pacquiao website MP8, the ex-convict who got caught after robbing a jewelry store mainly because he left a cowboy hat at the scene of the crime announced that a businessman named Michael Lodge and his company VisionQwest Resource Group Inc. and VisionQwest Accountancy will ?handle all accounting, personal and business tax, audits and examinations, as well all contract reviews.?
