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Valero better than floyd, says arum
VALERO BETTER THAN FLOYD, SAYS ARUM
Manila Standard, February 10, 2010
THE spectacular performance of World Boxing Council lightweight champion Edwin Valero against interim champion Antonio DeMarco has once again revived talks of a clash between the Venezuelan knockout artist and Manny Pacquiao.
Valero mauled DeMarco so badly for most of nine rounds that the Mexican’s corner stopped the fight before the start of the 10th round.
The Venezuelan champ, who has 27 wins all by knockouts, always wanted to fight Pacquiao.
In an interview with Standard Today at the PLDT offices of businessman-sportsman Manny Pangilinan when Valero and former WBC lightweight champion David Diaz paid the telecoms magnate a courtesy call, the Venezuelan reiterated his desire to face the Filipino champ and predicted he would beat him. He was in the Philippines as guest at Pacquiao’s 30th birthday celebration in December of 2008.
Pacquiao said he would never back out of a challenge provided the negotiations go well and Top Rank promoter Bob Arum believes a Pacquiao-Valero showdown would be sensational and will even be better than a Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Pacman bout.
But Arum said Valero will first have to move up to 140 pounds and prove himself at that weight before getting a shot at the reigning pound-for-pound king.
Boxingscene.com’s Rick Reeno spoke to Arum, who wanted Valero to fight some of the better names at 140 pounds, including World Boxing Organization champion Timothy Bradley to earn a shot at Pacquiao.
“Valero is a very smart guy. He has a real goal. He wants to fight Manny Pacquiao and that’s the reason he went with us. But to fight Manny Pacquiao, he has to prove himself at 140. He has to get a visa. I won’t have any problem getting him licensed in Nevada now that they changed the rule. It used to be where, if you had a bad [MRI] result, you were out. They changed that and Valero’s MRIs are perfect,” said Arum.
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VALERO BETTER THAN FLOYD, SAYS ARUM
Manila Standard, February 10, 2010
THE spectacular performance of World Boxing Council lightweight champion Edwin Valero against interim champion Antonio DeMarco has once again revived talks of a clash between the Venezuelan knockout artist and Manny Pacquiao.
Valero mauled DeMarco so badly for most of nine rounds that the Mexican’s corner stopped the fight before the start of the 10th round.
The Venezuelan champ, who has 27 wins all by knockouts, always wanted to fight Pacquiao.
In an interview with Standard Today at the PLDT offices of businessman-sportsman Manny Pangilinan when Valero and former WBC lightweight champion David Diaz paid the telecoms magnate a courtesy call, the Venezuelan reiterated his desire to face the Filipino champ and predicted he would beat him. He was in the Philippines as guest at Pacquiao’s 30th birthday celebration in December of 2008.
Pacquiao said he would never back out of a challenge provided the negotiations go well and Top Rank promoter Bob Arum believes a Pacquiao-Valero showdown would be sensational and will even be better than a Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Pacman bout.
But Arum said Valero will first have to move up to 140 pounds and prove himself at that weight before getting a shot at the reigning pound-for-pound king.
Boxingscene.com’s Rick Reeno spoke to Arum, who wanted Valero to fight some of the better names at 140 pounds, including World Boxing Organization champion Timothy Bradley to earn a shot at Pacquiao.
“Valero is a very smart guy. He has a real goal. He wants to fight Manny Pacquiao and that’s the reason he went with us. But to fight Manny Pacquiao, he has to prove himself at 140. He has to get a visa. I won’t have any problem getting him licensed in Nevada now that they changed the rule. It used to be where, if you had a bad [MRI] result, you were out. They changed that and Valero’s MRIs are perfect,” said Arum.
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