Amir vs Pacquiao will never happen because of Arum.

[Eff Pandas]

I think this particular situation has more to do with Arum probably wanting to hand the baton off so to speak to another TR fighter for Manny's last fight rather than some other regimes fighter. I think Arum wants Pacquiao vs Crawford. And he's hoping Crawford wins so he gots a possible PPV guy on his roster that could perhaps grow into a bigger PPV star.

Arum is old as f#ck. He ain't gonna see many more champions or PPV guys & I think he'd like to see a nice transition to Crawford being the guy for TR. I ultimately think Manny wins vs whoever so its kinda much ado about nothing to me, but I can definitely understand Arum continuing to "dance with the girl he brought" strategy that has helped shape his organisation & keep the big name fighter's L's in the family as much as possible.

[Eff Pandas]

Amir Khan talks himself out of fights

Didn't Khan call off this fight a couple days ago anyway? Sounds like he took it out of Arum's hands. And I mean I'm all for ****ting on Arum, but I don't think its reasonable to expect Arum to finalize a Manny opponent 6-8 months before the fight & Manny isn't even 100% cleared medically from the sounds of it (legit injury or nah) so idk wtf Khan was expecting this early from TR/Arum/Manny.