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MIKE JONES A POTENTIAL MANNY PACQUIAO RIVAL
A press conference was held at The Garden hours before the Donaire-Narvaez festivities began, and it featured several of the fighters who will be involved in the undercard for the HBO Pay Per View televised rematch between WBA junior middleweight titleholder Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito on Dec. 3 also at The Garden.
Among them were unbeaten welterweight Mike Jones, lightheavyweight prospect Mike Lee, junior middleweight Pawel Wolak and his opponent Delvin Rodriguez.
Arum stood at the podium and declared Jones a candidate to face eight-division titleholder Manny Pacquiao should Jones get beyond Argentina's Sebastian Lujan on Dec. 3, and Pacquiao get past a defense of his WBO welterweight belt against Juan Manuel Marquez on Nov. 12.
Another possibility for Pacquiao is WBO junior welterweight beltholder Tim Bradley, who faces former four-time titleholder Joel Casamayor on the Pacquiao-Marquez undercard, said Arum.
Jones-Lujan is an IBF title eliminator for the right to challenge IBF welterweight beltholder Andre Berto.
"There are some guys there who we could match Pacquiao with. There's Timothy Bradley, who is on the card there on Nov. 12, and also, there are welterweights out there. Now Mike Jones and Sebastian Lujan are going to be fighting here at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 3 for the No. 1 mandatory position against Berto," said Arum.
"And the winner of the fight will get to meet Berto down the road, or if that doesn't come about for any reason, will be ready to meet Manny Pacquiao down the road. But this fight is a very, very important fight for Mike Jones."
Jones is coming off a second-round knockout of Raul Munoz, which was accomplished in June before his hometown fans at the South Philly Arena.
Prior to that, Jones battled through consecutive majority, and, unanimous decisions over Jesus Soto Karass in February and June.
Jones is ranked first by the WBO, second by the WBA, third by the IBF and fourth by the WBC, whose respective titleholders are Pacquiao, Vyacheslav Senchenko, Berto and Floyd Mayweather Jr., respectively.
Arum is hilarious, its clear he has no intention of making the fight everyone wants to see, he is starting to sound kind of desperate now with this, its like he is looking for anyone in his stable who is undefeated, last time it was Rios he even mentioned Zab Judah before the Khan fight
A press conference was held at The Garden hours before the Donaire-Narvaez festivities began, and it featured several of the fighters who will be involved in the undercard for the HBO Pay Per View televised rematch between WBA junior middleweight titleholder Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito on Dec. 3 also at The Garden.
Among them were unbeaten welterweight Mike Jones, lightheavyweight prospect Mike Lee, junior middleweight Pawel Wolak and his opponent Delvin Rodriguez.
Arum stood at the podium and declared Jones a candidate to face eight-division titleholder Manny Pacquiao should Jones get beyond Argentina's Sebastian Lujan on Dec. 3, and Pacquiao get past a defense of his WBO welterweight belt against Juan Manuel Marquez on Nov. 12.
Another possibility for Pacquiao is WBO junior welterweight beltholder Tim Bradley, who faces former four-time titleholder Joel Casamayor on the Pacquiao-Marquez undercard, said Arum.
Jones-Lujan is an IBF title eliminator for the right to challenge IBF welterweight beltholder Andre Berto.
"There are some guys there who we could match Pacquiao with. There's Timothy Bradley, who is on the card there on Nov. 12, and also, there are welterweights out there. Now Mike Jones and Sebastian Lujan are going to be fighting here at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 3 for the No. 1 mandatory position against Berto," said Arum.
"And the winner of the fight will get to meet Berto down the road, or if that doesn't come about for any reason, will be ready to meet Manny Pacquiao down the road. But this fight is a very, very important fight for Mike Jones."
Jones is coming off a second-round knockout of Raul Munoz, which was accomplished in June before his hometown fans at the South Philly Arena.
Prior to that, Jones battled through consecutive majority, and, unanimous decisions over Jesus Soto Karass in February and June.
Jones is ranked first by the WBO, second by the WBA, third by the IBF and fourth by the WBC, whose respective titleholders are Pacquiao, Vyacheslav Senchenko, Berto and Floyd Mayweather Jr., respectively.
Arum is hilarious, its clear he has no intention of making the fight everyone wants to see, he is starting to sound kind of desperate now with this, its like he is looking for anyone in his stable who is undefeated, last time it was Rios he even mentioned Zab Judah before the Khan fight
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