By Ryan Burton

MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada - At yesterday's final press conference for the Mayweather-Pacquiao super-fight, Top Rank CEO Bob Arum raised eyebrows when he praised the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino for being gracious hosts for Manny Pacquiao and the rest of Top Rank while not saying a word about their sister propriety and host of Saturday's fight, the MGM Grand.

BoxingScene.com caught up with the Hall of Fame promoter to clarify his comments. Arum said that his comments shouldn't be construed as derogatory towards the MGM and that he just wanted to praise Mandalay Bay for their accommodations.

"Look, Mandalay Bay is owned by MGM and what I was saying is - we've had troubles here at MGM during the contract period but I want to go on record and say that the people at the Mandalay Bay have treated us superbly. They couldn't be more gracious or more hospitable so I was saying that not as a dig at anybody because we are not staying at the MGM. We are staying at Mandalay Bay which is a sister property and those people have been absolutely wonderful to us. Why wouldn't I acknowledge that?" Arum stated.

The troubles between Arum and MGM began last spring when Arum promoted the rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley. The fight took place in April and Arum took exception to the amount of advertisements that were seen throughout the property advertising the Mayweather-Marcos Maidana fight that took place last May.

Despite the bad blood, Arum said that he is still willing to work with the corporation and went as far as to say that he would be open to having Pacquiao fight in their new 20,000 seat arena that is due to open next spring. 

"MGM is still one company and say we want to do a Manny fight or any other fight (at Mandalay Bay) - hopefully they listen but it's their call on where the fight should be on their property, Arum told BoxingScene.com. "In April of next year they'll have this new arena that they'll own in conjunction with AEG and they may want to put a Manny fight in that new arena. And that would certainly be okay."

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