By Lem Satterfield
Hall of fame promoter Don King is still trying to secure a promotional agreement with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Over the last few weeks, King and Mayweather have been spending some time together. King is hoping to put together the biggest fight in boxing, by landing Mayweather and then reaching a deal with Bob Arum for a mega-fight with Manny Pacquiao. King believes the fight will transcend the sport of boxing.
"Mayweather-Pacquiao would be universal. It would transcend earthly bounds. With what I have in mind for Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao, if I'm fortunate enough to be able to be a part of it and to be able to get Floyd, I'm looking at something that would be so stupendous that it would boggle the mind," King said.
"It would be something that would bring billions of people together. It would be noted as a sporting event, but it would really be a humanitarian event. It would be somewhere where there would be fifteen hundred thousand people on the scene like we did with the Rumble in the Jungle."
Venue? Not Las Vegas. Or Cowboys Stadium. The fight is much bigger than that, says King.
"So where I would put it? I don't know, because I don't have it -- yet. But if I get it then, you can ask me that question. But I would make it, what we call in the ghetto, something kind of wonderful. And I think that Bob Arum and I could put it together," King said.
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.
