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By Jake Donovan - The race is on to which will actually occur by 2012: the end of the world, or a showdown between unbeaten featherweights Yuriorkis Gamboa and Juan Manuel Lopez.
Bob Arum is playing it as if rumors of the destruction of mankind as we know it couldn’t be further from the truth. The Hall of Fame promoter seems to be in as much of a hurry to bring to fruition the aforementioned matchup as he was a year ago – which is to say, not at all.
The promise around this time last year was that fans would just have to sit and wait until the undefeated duo cleaned out the featherweight division, establishing themselves not just as the best in the division but also as legitimate boxing superstars.
Only then will the collision course be deemed a big enough event for their promoter to pitch to the folks at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The vision for this showdown is a stadium event, not one that settles for a casino backdrop just for the sake of getting the two in the ring together.
If and when he pulls it off, Arum will have created even more space between himself and whoever is regarded as the next best active promoter in the sport today.
For the moment, the question isn’t so much when or if he pulls it off, but whether or not there really is a plan set in place for the two to first clean out the featherweight division. [Click Here To Read More]
Bob Arum is playing it as if rumors of the destruction of mankind as we know it couldn’t be further from the truth. The Hall of Fame promoter seems to be in as much of a hurry to bring to fruition the aforementioned matchup as he was a year ago – which is to say, not at all.
The promise around this time last year was that fans would just have to sit and wait until the undefeated duo cleaned out the featherweight division, establishing themselves not just as the best in the division but also as legitimate boxing superstars.
Only then will the collision course be deemed a big enough event for their promoter to pitch to the folks at the New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The vision for this showdown is a stadium event, not one that settles for a casino backdrop just for the sake of getting the two in the ring together.
If and when he pulls it off, Arum will have created even more space between himself and whoever is regarded as the next best active promoter in the sport today.
For the moment, the question isn’t so much when or if he pulls it off, but whether or not there really is a plan set in place for the two to first clean out the featherweight division. [Click Here To Read More]
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