By Edward Chaykovsky
According to Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, HBO and Showtime have agreed on how they would broadcast a fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. He says there were four major issues that where holding up a deal from being finalized and now only two issues were remaining.
"We had four issues and we resolved two," said Arum, who promotes Pacquiao, to the AP. "Now we're working on resolving the other two. Unless something else comes up at the last minute, that's what my take is. There's a lot of devil in the details and that's what we're sorting through now. The remaining issues are obviously important to the participants, and are things we have to work out."
Arum would not disclose the details of the two remaining issues.
HBO Sports president Ken Hershman says his network has done everything possible to make the fight happen and now it was up to the principles, Mayweather and Pacquiao, to reach a full agreement.
"Our position has been consistent throughout this whole process," Hershman said to New York Newsday. "We're here to stand by and help wherever we can to make this fight happen. We're not an impediment to that happening, and we'll do what's necessary from our end. Then, it's up to the principals. For me, the sooner the better, just to get this done or not because we have a lot of other fights on the runway that we want to start moving along."
