Pacquiao-Valero and Barrera-Soto kick off 2007

[Mr. Ryan]

According to an article on ESTO, Mexico's leading sports newspaper, Soto has signed a two-year contract with Top Rank. During their meeting, Arum showed Soto the contract that had been signed by Pacquiao, and assured him that Pacquiao would be fighting Valero in early 2007. This was a result of the ongoing feud between Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank, as a Pacquiao-Barrera match is no longer a possibility.

Since Barrera must take on his mandatory challenger in March, Soto seems to be Marco's next opponent since the former is the No. 1 challenger. Therefore, as it stands today, Pacquiao will fight Valero in Macau and Soto will take on Barrera in early 2007.


Link:

http://www.oem.com.mx/esto/notas/n82045.htm

Props to PacLands Heroe del Silencio

[Easy-E]

Man I hate Bob Arum.

[xcaret]

Pacquiao is a ****ing dumbass, nice choice you ****ing mushroom head.

[Mr. Ryan]

Pacquiao is a ****ing dumbass, nice choice you ****ing mushroom head.

LOL, this is funny. Xcaret claimed that Pacquiao was afraid of Valero and is taking him 4 months after running Morales out of Las Vegas.

[JamesMc]

i don't know if there's 100% truth to this, but it wouldn't surprise me. I can't wait for golden boy pr. to cast old man arum right out of boxing. **** this *******

[The Fix]

golden boy and top rank are both ass...


i especially hate golden boy....dumped kingsley ikeke after a loss...damn talk about pouring salt in the wound...

[Kball15]

arum doesnt give a **** about the fans at all.

But still, those are 2 great fights right there, rather then just one REALLY great fight

[Mr. Ryan]

golden boy and top rank are both ass...


i especially hate golden boy....dumped kingsley ikeke after a loss...damn talk about pouring salt in the wound...

Truth is, how do you market Ikeke? He doesn't have an entertaining style or fan base, so you can't really do too much with him.

[eazy_mas]

golden boy and top rank are both ass...


i especially hate golden boy....dumped kingsley ikeke after a loss...damn talk about pouring salt in the wound...

that is life if you dont make money drop them.

kingsley is realy a contender for long time and couldnt step it up the best thing for him is too see thing other than boxing.

[PRboxingfan]

Well, Soto is the next available, highest ranked fighter at 130 right now (in the WBC rankings) so if Pac decides to sidestep Barrera then Soto would be the next in line.

HOWEVER, Pac's promotional future remains to be seen. If a court rules that Pac's contract with Top Rank is no good, Golden Boy would then be Pac's promoter and the Valero match would not go on (unless GBP decides to draw up a new contract for Pac-Valero).