Arum belies Pacquiao’s comment on Crawford NURMAGOMEDOV, MCGREGOR SUSPENSIONS EXTENDED
TOP Rank Promotion head Bob Arum said that it’s not true that World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Terence Crawford is “scared ” of Manny Pacquiao. TheManila
is responding to a
story wherein the World Boxing Association welterweight champion Pacquiao claimed that the unbeaten American boxer is afraid of him, and that the promoters are preventing a fight between him and Crawford to happen.
“That’s ridiculous because I offered Manny ( Pacquiao) to fight Crawford,” the veteran promoter told via overseas call on Wednesday.
Arum did not specify but said it was someone in Pacquiao’s camp that caused the negotiations for the fight to fail.
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like nothing with Arum’s rival Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions, the veteran promoter is not discounting the possibility of Pacquiao facing Crawford in the future.
“It is always a possibility. But again, anything is possible.”
Crawford scored a 12th round technical knockout win over fellow American Jose Benavidez Jr. on October 13 in Omaha, Nebraska.
“We’re looking for a date in the first four months of the year and we will get the best possible opponent. He ( Crawford) is the biggest draw in boxing so we are going to be careful probably in putting it in Las Vegas or in Los Angeles,” Arum said of Crawford’s next bout.
Pacquiao, on the other hand, is set to face Adrien Broner tentatively on January 19 in the US.
Mixed martial arts stars Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor will remain suspended pending full investigation of the melee following UFC 229, Nevada combat sports regulators said Wednesday.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission voted unanimously on the suspensions, with chairman Anthony Marnell
a December 10 hearing.
Russia’s Nurmagomedov and Ireland’s McGregor had already been suspended for
be banned pending a hearing.
The sanctions stem from the extraor-
unbeaten Nurmagomedov choked out McGregor on October 6 in Las Vegas.
Nurmagomedov had barely released his hold after McGregor tapped out when the Russian launched himself over the Octagon fence, targeting a taunting member of McGregor’s camp.
The five- member board also voted to release half of Nurmagomedov’s $2 million purse, which had been withheld
Marnell said he believed that retaining $1 million would allow Nurmagomedov to meet his expenses but still be “enough money to keep this contestant’s interest in this hearing”.
Marnell also said that he would have withheld McGregor’s $3 million purse if he had seen video that showed McGregor’s role in fueling the brawl. show the Irish star being taken by surprise by three of Nurmagomedov’s teammates coming after him inside the Octagon.
Once the probe is complete, the commission has the power to issue lifetime bans, although such a punishment is considered unlikely.