Comments Thread For: Arum: Hopkins Will Get List To Select Pacquiao's Black Foe

[iskupaldi]

There is nothing slick about Mosley or Berto.

So who do you have in mind? Mayweather will not fight Pacquiao. so who's out there?

[HandSpeed303]

I would go so far as to say that anybody who does not like both Floyd Mayweather Jr. (the best active defensive boxer in the world) and Manny Pacquiao (the best active offensive fighter in the world) is not a true boxing fan.

I will go as far to say, you are 100% correct!!!

[hb stowe]

screw berto and old ass mosley.floyd is the fight and arum knows that pacquiao does'nt stand a chance regardless of how much money everybody will make.mayweather is just to great in the ring.all that jump in pitty pat combination **** he hit cheato with won't work.pac will be on his back.

the story is about african american fighters against pacquiao. if your hero doesnt man up then well just have to go down the list dont we. choose your representative wisely because there should be no excuses this time...

[Motofan]

he will choose mosley that's his buddy.

Yep. That is 100% the only reason he said anything in the first place.

[creative]

brad solomon he's better than mosley cuz mosley is old...and he's fast..i know he gotta prove him self more,but he is pretty good.

and im not black.......just my opinion.cuz mosley is past prime,and a boring ****** fight with no sense..................

[Cash Cow]

LMAO oh S*** and then what happened LOL OMG OMG

#Fail

actually Valero's word should be GOLD, he was on TOP rank and seen the sparring occur

[hitking]

At this point, I don't care if they're black, white, yellow, or green. I just want to see Manny Pacquaio fight a top level opponent that isn't coming off a loss, rebuilding from a loss, or a lackluster performance against a lesser fighter.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Hopkins just hooked Mosely up


now THAT is a homey


nevermind the beating he's about to get Shane but the payday will be very nice

[Illdil]

ok if timmy wins against alexander which i pick him to win then he is a good fit for PAC the guy is slick can box/punch/inside the pocket fight from the outside he can do it all and he resemblems jr a bit so that'll b a good challenge for PAC imo....

[Motofan]

He's not really, just putting BHop on the spot. Hopkins is the most vocal/visible of the 'Manny avoids African-Americans' movement. So as the defacto leader, Bob's leaving it up to him to make the decision. If Arum sends him a list with Mayweather, Mosley, and Berto on it... logically everyone would expect him to choose Floyd. But Hop is a VP at GBP and knows Floyd wants nothing to do with Manny. So if B-Hop, an employee of GB, picks Floyd and Floyd stays on vacation or turns down the fight again... then the public backlash against Mayweather (and now GBP) will increase.

If he chooses Berto (he won't) he's another Haymon fighter who is reluctant to fight top competition and Al won't feed his prospect to the Pac monster, another move that would be perceived as a blatant duck by the public.

If he chooses Mosley, then everyone will say he's just throwing his friend a bone and all the complaining about a Mosley fight would seem ****** since it was Hopkins' choice, not Arum's (obviously not true, but that's how it will appear to the public).

So unless Floyd steps up (he won't and everyone at GBP knows this), then it's a lose-lose situation... but Arum with this move has made it Hopkins' decision, not his (Arum's). So any public backlash about whatever opponent is chosen will be geared towards the guy who was given the power to choose from the list of African-American fighters that Manny is supposedly ducking.

Master stroke by Bob. These guys really aren't in his league, Don King must be giving a standing ovation somewhere while reading this. Bob has clowned Golden Boy repeatedly and he just checkmated them again.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^