What is Arum going to do to avoid making the Chavez Jr/Martinez fight?

drop the wbc title or go down weight

Arum is such a piece of kniving ****. He kept Cotto away from Floyd and he has been overwhelmingly successful at keeping Manny away from everyone that is a real risk. Now he has another one in JCC Jr. who won't be let near anyone at the elite level. JCC Jr. will never be allowed anywhere near Sergio, well unless Sergio signs with TR, than the fight would be made tomorrow. If Floyd was with TR the Pac/Floyd fight would have been made 2-3 years ago guaranteed. People are finally aware of Arums BS though...he can't hide behing his lies at this point. Matching Pac against the carefully selected opponents he has over the last 2-3 years opened peoples eyes. JCC Jr. will be brought along the same way bet on it. Arum is a master manipulator though I will give him that, he has Ring magazine and most of the world actually convinced that Pac is the #1 P4P fighter in the world, when he surely is not. JCC Jr. SUCKS

No way he lets Chavez take on Martinez. He'll pit him against Canelo so he gets all the money, that is the fight that brings in the most cash

Arum will make Jr. vacate and say that Sergio is not a big enough name and that he's not promoted properly. He then offers Sergio a shot at Paqcuiao if he signs with Top Rank which will be Pacuiao's last fight and we never see Floyd vs Paqcuiao.

He'll vacate the belt, since the championship isn't that important with a guy like Jr. Chavez Jr doesn't depends on a championship belt to generate large amounts of money since people will follow him just because he's the son of the legend, not because he's the best boxer at the moment. If he leaves the belt they're going to say that Martinez wasn't flexible with the date of the fight or something like that and that Jr is going to get a better fight against Cotto. Since Cotto looked pretty good against Margarito most people would think that this is going to be a super hiper ultra mega fight between two great boxers, and they won't really care that there's not going to be any title involved. Promoters like belts more than people think though. It's a good marketing tool, if you can't advertise a fight as a "championship bout" it won't have as much mass appeal. Arum probably spent a lot of money bribing Sulaiman to make Martinez diamond champion and let Chavez Jr fight for the real belt against Zbik. He didn't go through that whole mess just to vacate the belt one fight later when Jr is on the verge of a super fight.

Your missing the key point. The whole reason Cotto wants any part of Chavez Jr is the potential to grab a 4th title in as many divisions. Be the first Rican to do so. Chavez vacates, then there won't be any reason for the Cotto/Chavez Jr fight, other than $$. But Cotto can make money against anyone in NY, so that title is important. It won't get vacated Not really, I know that the main reason for Cotto to fight Jr is for a world title in a 4th different weight class, but even without the title this could be a massive money generator, even more than Cotto could generate against other boxer. Also picture this, Jr vacates and fights Cotto. If Cotto wins then suddenly the WBC is going to say that Cotto is going to be the mandatory challenger for the WBC title and could make a fight with Martinez. If Jr wins well he'll continue generating money.

He'll vacate the belt, since the championship isn't that important with a guy like Jr. Chavez Jr doesn't depends on a championship belt to generate large amounts of money since people will follow him just because he's the son of the legend, not because he's the best boxer at the moment. If he leaves the belt they're going to say that Martinez wasn't flexible with the date of the fight or something like that and that Jr is going to get a better fight against Cotto. Since Cotto looked pretty good against Margarito most people would think that this is going to be a super hiper ultra mega fight between two great boxers, and they won't really care that there's not going to be any title involved. Your missing the key point. The whole reason Cotto wants any part of Chavez Jr is the potential to grab a 4th title in as many divisions. Be the first Rican to do so. Chavez vacates, then there won't be any reason for the Cotto/Chavez Jr fight, other than $$. But Cotto can make money against anyone in NY, so that title is important. It won't get vacated

He'll vacate the belt, since the championship isn't that important with a guy like Jr. Chavez Jr doesn't depends on a championship belt to generate large amounts of money since people will follow him just because he's the son of the legend, not because he's the best boxer at the moment. If he leaves the belt they're going to say that Martinez wasn't flexible with the date of the fight or something like that and that Jr is going to get a better fight against Cotto. Since Cotto looked pretty good against Margarito most people would think that this is going to be a super hiper ultra mega fight between two great boxers, and they won't really care that there's not going to be any title involved.

Bob Arum has avoided making the "biggest" fight of the last 10 years, Mayweather vs Pacquiao, with a lot of success. He has come up with a way to not only avoid it but also make Floyd look bad for the most part, until recently that more and more people have caught on to what has been going on. I am pretty sure that Bob will come up with a way to avoid a lesser fight in Martinez vs Chavez Jr, while making Martinez seem like the bad guy who didn't want the fight.