By Michael Marley, Examiner.com
I told you that Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum was completely frustrated.
Now the Pacman promoter, unable to get the Floyd Mayweather camp to come off its persistent demand for random blood testing, has turned to his own stable of fighters to select the Pinoy Idol's next ring foe.
As he suggested several times before, Arum is going to match Manny up against newly crowned WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman--he of Belarus, Israel and now Brooklyn. The likely date for the bout is March 20, a week after the projected Mayweather-Pacquiao date at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Vegas will be the site for Pacquiao-Foreman as Pacman attempts to make more ring history by winning a world title in a record eighth weight class. When he stopped Miguel Cotto Nov. 14 for two welterweight crowns, Pacquiao recorded his seventh weight class world title bout.
Arum may swtich venues from the MGM to the Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus.
Arum will meet with Foreman's manager, restaurant owner Murray Wilson, on Sunday morning in Las Vegas.
So maybe the "odds and ends" of the deal for the rabbinical student's first title defense will be made over bagels and lox.
Certainly, you could say that Mayweather's misfortune, in killing or deferring a $30 million paynight, is good lox for young Foreman.
Here's one future rabbi who will never go hungry.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
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