According to Oscar, Arum arranged for a larger-than-normal ring to favor the quicker Pacquiao. "I believe that’s the reason Bob Arum arranged to have a big ring, to give Pacquiao an advantage. Arum promotes both fighters but, obviously, it benefits him more if Pacquiao wins so they’re going to favor him." Arum responded to OScar's comments with the following... “Is that little (expletive) crazy? Who writes this (expletive) for him? I’m absolutely outraged. He can pick whoever he wants to pick to win the fight and he can say whatever he wants to say about me, but to write that I arranged to have the ring made bigger to favor anyone is a complete (expletive) lie and is just not true. For as long as I can remember, the rings in Nevada have been 20 feet by 20 feet and I didn’t do (an expletive) thing about changing it.” Keith Kizer, the executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission, confirmed that Arum is correct. “Mr. Arum absolutely did not ask for a different ring size,” Kizer said. “We haven’t been asked that in a long time. As you know, our standard ring is 20-by-20 and no fighter, no promoter, nobody, has asked for a different size in quite some time. The size of the ring on Nov. 14 will be 20-by-20, like it always is.”
What's funny is that they remove that part from the website. I guessed you can do that when you own the site/magazine. "The portion of De La Hoya's blog in question was removed in light of the standard ring size." http://www.ringtv.com/blog/1288/arum_de_la_hoya_blog_outrageous/
damn thats crazy... lol, Oscar taking cheap shots at Arum. Is Golden Boy thinking of perhaps stealing Cotto from Arum once his contract expires? ...he seems to be very pro Cotto or just very anti Arum since we know it would benefit Arum for Manny to win.
Oscar is just jealous he doesnt have any part to do with this fight! Plus he knows this is gonna be more action than PBF vs. JMM
I think Arum finds it hard to swallow that ODLH , is the major force he actually is promoter wise !!!!!! And i love hearing people slag Arum off cause the guy is a joke !!!!!!
At least Arum is giving us some good fights! Marg vs Cotto, Pac vs Cotto, too bad Pavlik couldnt go through with Williams. The last Golden Girl promoted fights sucked ass.
