By Radio Rahim

Top Rank's CEO, Bob Arum, was completely shocked when several media outlets actually wrote stories regarding a "potential fight" between welterweight contender Manny Pacquiao and middleweight king Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin.

Arum was making a joke during a conference call to promote Pacquiao's upcoming fight with WBO welterweight champion Jessie Vargas, which takes place on November 5 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

The veteran promoter made a crack that Pacquiao "might look so good" next Saturday night that Arum and Pacquiao might "go after Golovkin" next.

The following day, Arum woke up to multiple stories that claimed he was going to pursue a fight with Golovkin for the Filipino star.

Arum would never even consider the idea of making that fight and he further states that there isn't a single athletic commission in the United States that would ever allow such a fight to take place.

"That was a joke. They were asking what was the toughest fight for Manny or something like that, and I was going to say [Wladimir] Klitschko and show it was a joke, but Klitschko is no longer the heavyweight champ so I switched to Golovkin. Of course we would never make that fight. Manny Pacquiao is barely a 140-pounder," Arum explained to BoxingScene.com.

"It's silly. People who cover the sport should know when something is not serious. The idea of Pacquiao fighting Golovkin, a commission would step in and not allow it. It's ridiculous. And the fact that people couldn't take a joke..... But see if they weren't on the call. So if they weren't on the call they couldn't hear how I said it, as a joke. So they just read the [conference call] transcript and if they just read the transcript they think it was a serious comment. It was never intended as anything serious."