I think he has a few challengers, Williams (154) and Berto (147) would offer a better competition than Mosley, he could entice Martinez to come down to 154 and fight him there, the others are too green, canelo, Lara etc..
MMA isn't looking this great either. Fedor is probably gone. Anderson Silva is 35 and has only 2-3 fights left I believe. If GSP beats Shields he basicly cleaned out the division and won't have any real challenge.
yep...all those guys have to do is sign with top rank right?? what happened to arum saying that "due to pacs financial demands"...that he is forced to make the fights in house?
I have always thought Arum would look to do Pac-Cotto 2 for Cotto's title in November. If Cotto gets through Mayorga and Margarito then he'll be on a nice 3 fight winning streak, have a title, new weight(from their first fight), new trainer, etc. There's a lot of selling points for a rematch there, not too mention its another Top Rank only fight and the first one made a lot of money. I still see Pac-Cotto rematch as the leading fight for Pacquaio if Cotto doesn't lose before then. But, with Arum dangling a Pac fight in front of JMM and Bradley then they now have to be in the mix as well as long as they keep winning and sign with Arum. JMM would have a better chance then Bradley since he and Pac have a history, their fight would sell more, and Bradley still has a potential Khan fight which he could lose but both guys are in the mix. If all these fighters don't lose in the meantime I'd put them something like this as far as chances they fight Pac later this year: 1 Cotto 40% 2 JMM 25% 3 Berto 15% 4 Bradley 15% 5 someone else 4% 6 Mayweather 1%
my lord...if they put pac in the ring with cotto again...... arum is gonna make cotto/margs 2 this summer in ny isnt he?
Good point! I mean Cotto looked physicly very strong vs the guy he faught (forgot his name ). If he than beats Mayorga and Margarito, why not pacman vs cotto II :fire
Why JMM 3? The guy has nothing left and certainly nothing on pacquiao anymore, stop living in the past people
Arum has already mentioned this rematch and the first one was a big money maker. There are a few new angles to a rematch and Cotto was pretty competitive for the first half of the fight so I think it sells. There are a number of guys I'd rather see than a Cotto rematch but we know Arum loves doing things in house and this is the biggest fight Arum can do and keep it totaly Top Rank.
yeah i can see that, add Canelo to the list, he just needs a few more fights tho, still a bit green...
Hopefully the Showtime/CBSthing will work and get boxing back up there with the top sports. If Pac-Mayweather dont happen after this then i think it never will.
Hopefully some big fights like Klitschko-Haye & Lopez-Gamboa can put some groove in the boxing scene. We need some new boxing stars, when pacman and mayweather are gone, which will come quicker as we would like.
Why does marquez have nothing left. Because he got beat by Mayweather and put down by Katsidis? Bit of a bull**** statement there mate.
Sure his statement is overrated, but I can understand him a bit. I mean Pacman being the monster that he is and Marquez isn't simply keeping up and in my eyes only a physical bigger Boxer will pose problem, like Margarito lastly did. I can't understand why Marquez gets so many votes, when there are a lot of young undefeated rising stars coming up.