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Gareth A Davies:
Arum has witnessed Pacquiao grow as a speaker and politician
"People say to me 'Do you really believe he's capable of being president?' I look at him so far and I say if the election was next year of course not, but the election won't be until 2022 and by then he'll be a really seasoned guy. That would be the biggest achievement of my career. I hope I'm around to see it.
"It's been an amazing run, that's why I get very very impatient with a lot of this Mayweather nonsense. Because the game plan here is to be president of the Philippines. The game plan is not to be the pound for pound guy for five or six years, it is to transcend boxing and to move on to the rest of his life."
"His coach Freddie Roach, who's a pure boxing guy, still thinks in those terms which is great and it makes them effective in their job but I really don't. I'm trying to weigh everything he does in his boxing career on how it will relate to the ultimate goal of being president. One of the reasons I never really was so keen on a Mayweather fight which I now truly believe is an easy fight for Pacquiao is because how Manny is going to be tainted by some of the vile things that Mayweather comes out with. Even though he'll be the good guy, God knows what Mayweather is capable of saying. It's one thing to talk about how much better a fighter he is and Manny can't do this or that, but Mayweather, who has no sensibility in this, is capable of insulting the country. The ignorance is so appalling."
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So it's because Floyd would clown Manny during 24/7 is one of the reasons he isn't so keen on the fight happening?
Arum has witnessed Pacquiao grow as a speaker and politician
"People say to me 'Do you really believe he's capable of being president?' I look at him so far and I say if the election was next year of course not, but the election won't be until 2022 and by then he'll be a really seasoned guy. That would be the biggest achievement of my career. I hope I'm around to see it.
"It's been an amazing run, that's why I get very very impatient with a lot of this Mayweather nonsense. Because the game plan here is to be president of the Philippines. The game plan is not to be the pound for pound guy for five or six years, it is to transcend boxing and to move on to the rest of his life."
"His coach Freddie Roach, who's a pure boxing guy, still thinks in those terms which is great and it makes them effective in their job but I really don't. I'm trying to weigh everything he does in his boxing career on how it will relate to the ultimate goal of being president. One of the reasons I never really was so keen on a Mayweather fight which I now truly believe is an easy fight for Pacquiao is because how Manny is going to be tainted by some of the vile things that Mayweather comes out with. Even though he'll be the good guy, God knows what Mayweather is capable of saying. It's one thing to talk about how much better a fighter he is and Manny can't do this or that, but Mayweather, who has no sensibility in this, is capable of insulting the country. The ignorance is so appalling."
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So it's because Floyd would clown Manny during 24/7 is one of the reasons he isn't so keen on the fight happening?
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