Las Vegas - Top Rank promoter Bob Arum today blasted Floyd Mayweather Sr over his allegations that reigning pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao was on steroids or some performance-enhancing drugs saying, “he is as close to a moronic person as anybody.”
In a conversation at his Top Rank office with BoxingScene.com, ABS-CBN and Standard Today, Arum said “he (Mayweather Sr) has no credibility about anything. He keeps bragging that he is the greatest trainer in the world and Freddie Roach wasn’t a trainer and then his man (Ricky Hatton) gets humiliated and one of the reasons he got humiliated is because he didn’t coach his guy to watch out for Manny’s style.”
Arum characterized Mayweather Sr as “a fraud as a trainer and to give him any credibility on any kind of wild statement you have to recognize the source from which it comes. They’ll say anything to get attention.”
The astute promoter who will leave for the Philippines on September 30 said “people don’t realize what Manny (Pacquiao) means to the Filipinos,” who were up in arms over Mayweather Sr's wild and unsubstantiated statements.
Arum said the Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto “Fire Power” showdown at the MGM Grand on November 14 was doing “unbelievably well” and showed us the sales report stating that “of the 15, 887 saleable tickets with everything being sold, except 642 at the top price and 80 at the second price. Everything else is completely gone. And they are selling about 60 tickets a day so in ten days there won’t be a ticket left and then everybody will go crazy.”
The 682 tickets are priced at $1,000 and the 80 at $750 even as Arum revealed “there is nothing at $500, nothing at $300 and nothing at $150. Nothing.” The income on ticket sales to date is $8.2 million in at the box office with another $700,000 to go.”
Arum also announced that on October 10 they will open the sale of 15,000 closed circuit seats at $50.
Source: Boxingscene.com
In a conversation at his Top Rank office with BoxingScene.com, ABS-CBN and Standard Today, Arum said “he (Mayweather Sr) has no credibility about anything. He keeps bragging that he is the greatest trainer in the world and Freddie Roach wasn’t a trainer and then his man (Ricky Hatton) gets humiliated and one of the reasons he got humiliated is because he didn’t coach his guy to watch out for Manny’s style.”
Arum characterized Mayweather Sr as “a fraud as a trainer and to give him any credibility on any kind of wild statement you have to recognize the source from which it comes. They’ll say anything to get attention.”
The astute promoter who will leave for the Philippines on September 30 said “people don’t realize what Manny (Pacquiao) means to the Filipinos,” who were up in arms over Mayweather Sr's wild and unsubstantiated statements.
Arum said the Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto “Fire Power” showdown at the MGM Grand on November 14 was doing “unbelievably well” and showed us the sales report stating that “of the 15, 887 saleable tickets with everything being sold, except 642 at the top price and 80 at the second price. Everything else is completely gone. And they are selling about 60 tickets a day so in ten days there won’t be a ticket left and then everybody will go crazy.”
The 682 tickets are priced at $1,000 and the 80 at $750 even as Arum revealed “there is nothing at $500, nothing at $300 and nothing at $150. Nothing.” The income on ticket sales to date is $8.2 million in at the box office with another $700,000 to go.”
Arum also announced that on October 10 they will open the sale of 15,000 closed circuit seats at $50.
Source: Boxingscene.com
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