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Globetrotter Arum: Williams-Pacquiao might be awful due to height difference
His humanitarian trip to Havana over and done with, fight promoter Bob Arum won't waste time unpacking his suitcase.
"I was out of pocket for three days in Cuba, the phones don't work in our out," Arum said from Las Vegas on Monday. "But I take off Thursday for the Philippines, arriving there Saturday. We're having a media day on Monday, Oct. 18 for Manny Pacquiao Then I shoot back to the USA on Wednesday."
The soon to be age 79 head of Top Rank revealed that a second Pacman media day will take place at the familiar Coach Freddie Roach sweat emporium, the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood on Oct. 27 and that Antonio Margarito have his own at a different Los Angeles gym. (TR pr chief Lee Samuels is working on that logistical detail.)
Margarito, of course, is prepping with former IBF world junior lightweight champion Robert "Grandpa" Garcia at the storied La Colonia Gym in Oxnard, where Eduardo Garcia (Robert's father) tutored his son and Ferocious Fernando Vargas.
If you think Arum is having a fit because word has it Pacman looked flat in sparring in Baguio before rushing off to Manila, you think wrong.
"I haven't heard that, who said that?" Arum said.
The more pressing issue is whether finally the Congressmanny has overloaded his plate in terms of nonboxing matters.
This comes up in every training camp but it's now more pronounced given that the fighter had to huddle with President Noynoy Aquino and other solons.
"It's always this way with Manny," Arum said. "But, when he gets to the US. to California, there are less distractions for him. All the distractions, and there are a lot, go away when he leaves the Philippines."
Arum described Cowboy Stadium ticket sales as nudging past "the 20,000 mark" and said he was told that 300 tickets were peddled on Sunday.
"It's terrific, in fact it is good I'm wondering if Jerry (Jones, team and stadium owner) will want to open up the top deck, the upper level. I've got no idea if he will."
Arum said discussing Tall Paul Williams, who stands 6-2 and towers over even Margarito, as a next Pacman foe is an academic exercise.
"He is freakishly tall so let's review how Manny does against Margarito," Arum said. "That's something that would have to be discussed with Freddie and (matchmaker) Bruce Trampler and, besides, Williams is no cinch to beat Sergio Martinez (Nov. 27 in Atlantic City).
"I just think putting a 5-6 guy in with a 6-2 guy does not usually make for a great fight. It could be awful."
Just to be precise, the Pinoy Idol actually stands 5-6 1/2, don't cheat the man.
Arum, who had last been on a holiday lark in the pre-Castro Havana of 1957, said he really enjoyed the visit he made with a ***ish religious group.
"There are about 1,500 ***s left in Cuba now but it's a vibrant community, mostly young. They've got three synagogues there. From 1959 to 1990, Fidel banned all religions. They had 15,000 ***s in Cuba but 90 percent of them left."
Arum said depictions of once stately but now crumbling buildings and well-kept classic American automobiles give an accurate look at Havana, circa 2010.
"In 1957, they had all casinos going and it was the most magnificent city in Latin America," Arum said. "The buildings are falling down but the 1950 era US cars are kept up. We went one afternoon to what had been Meyer Lansky's place, the Riviera Hotel."
Mr. Lansky, now there was a real humanitarian.
Globetrotter Arum said adios to Cuba, went home to change his clothes and then jets off for Manila.
The man gets more sky mileage than some pilots.
His humanitarian trip to Havana over and done with, fight promoter Bob Arum won't waste time unpacking his suitcase.
"I was out of pocket for three days in Cuba, the phones don't work in our out," Arum said from Las Vegas on Monday. "But I take off Thursday for the Philippines, arriving there Saturday. We're having a media day on Monday, Oct. 18 for Manny Pacquiao Then I shoot back to the USA on Wednesday."
The soon to be age 79 head of Top Rank revealed that a second Pacman media day will take place at the familiar Coach Freddie Roach sweat emporium, the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood on Oct. 27 and that Antonio Margarito have his own at a different Los Angeles gym. (TR pr chief Lee Samuels is working on that logistical detail.)
Margarito, of course, is prepping with former IBF world junior lightweight champion Robert "Grandpa" Garcia at the storied La Colonia Gym in Oxnard, where Eduardo Garcia (Robert's father) tutored his son and Ferocious Fernando Vargas.
If you think Arum is having a fit because word has it Pacman looked flat in sparring in Baguio before rushing off to Manila, you think wrong.
"I haven't heard that, who said that?" Arum said.
The more pressing issue is whether finally the Congressmanny has overloaded his plate in terms of nonboxing matters.
This comes up in every training camp but it's now more pronounced given that the fighter had to huddle with President Noynoy Aquino and other solons.
"It's always this way with Manny," Arum said. "But, when he gets to the US. to California, there are less distractions for him. All the distractions, and there are a lot, go away when he leaves the Philippines."
Arum described Cowboy Stadium ticket sales as nudging past "the 20,000 mark" and said he was told that 300 tickets were peddled on Sunday.
"It's terrific, in fact it is good I'm wondering if Jerry (Jones, team and stadium owner) will want to open up the top deck, the upper level. I've got no idea if he will."
Arum said discussing Tall Paul Williams, who stands 6-2 and towers over even Margarito, as a next Pacman foe is an academic exercise.
"He is freakishly tall so let's review how Manny does against Margarito," Arum said. "That's something that would have to be discussed with Freddie and (matchmaker) Bruce Trampler and, besides, Williams is no cinch to beat Sergio Martinez (Nov. 27 in Atlantic City).
"I just think putting a 5-6 guy in with a 6-2 guy does not usually make for a great fight. It could be awful."
Just to be precise, the Pinoy Idol actually stands 5-6 1/2, don't cheat the man.
Arum, who had last been on a holiday lark in the pre-Castro Havana of 1957, said he really enjoyed the visit he made with a ***ish religious group.
"There are about 1,500 ***s left in Cuba now but it's a vibrant community, mostly young. They've got three synagogues there. From 1959 to 1990, Fidel banned all religions. They had 15,000 ***s in Cuba but 90 percent of them left."
Arum said depictions of once stately but now crumbling buildings and well-kept classic American automobiles give an accurate look at Havana, circa 2010.
"In 1957, they had all casinos going and it was the most magnificent city in Latin America," Arum said. "The buildings are falling down but the 1950 era US cars are kept up. We went one afternoon to what had been Meyer Lansky's place, the Riviera Hotel."
Mr. Lansky, now there was a real humanitarian.
Globetrotter Arum said adios to Cuba, went home to change his clothes and then jets off for Manila.
The man gets more sky mileage than some pilots.
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