By NICK GIONGCO, Manila Bulletin
Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum’s patience is getting thinner each passing day.
Arum said on Thursday that he is giving Floyd Mayweather, Jr. until mid-July to decide whether he’ll face Manny Pacquiao or not in a megabuck matchup booked for November 13 in Las Vegas.
Speaking to the on-line edition of Sports Illustrated, Arum said the unbeaten American has to make a decision because time is apparently running out.
“This really depends, as I see it, on whether Mayweather wants to fight (Pacquiao). By mid-July, he’s either in or out. We’re not going to wait forever. We’re going to have a fight on November 13 and we would love it to be Mayweather.”
Arum said he has two guys on standby: Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto and Mexican Antonio Margarito.
Although the 78-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer admits that the Mayweather fight is going to command more money and media mileage, Arum said he has no other choice but to look elsewhere.
Cotto looks like the first option in the event Mayweather decides to back off from a Pacquiao fight since Cotto holds a portion of the world super-welterweight crown even if he had been beaten by the Filipino last year.
Against Cotto, Pacquiao will be gunning for an eighth world title, making it an intriguing clash.
Arum, who has been promoting Pacquiao the past six years, said the other day that negotiations have ended between the two camps and that the ball is now in Mayweather’s court.
Source: mb.com.ph
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