TOP RANK promoter Bob Arum took to social media to declare that Manny Pacquiao had an array options for places to fight to consider as he weighs up where the final few contests of the Filipinoโs glittering career might take place. Pacquiao is now 38 years old, a senator in his homeland and has to consider how he will bow out of the sport.
Arum is mulling over a world tour. โOffers are coming in from all over the world to host Manny Pacquiao fights.ย Australia, Russia, UK and US. What a way to go out,โ he tweeted.
Australia features high up the pecking order as speculation mounts that Pacquiao could meet unlikely challenger, Jeff Horn. The Australian welterweight would be a vast underdog but he told the Courier Mail: โIโve got youth on my side.
โHeโs 38, Iโm 28. Heโs got the experience but I think heโs slipped a bit. Heโs still got very good movement and skills but he has dropped form just slightly and that means a lot at the top level.โโ
Itโs interesting to see the UK on the Arumโs list. Britain is holding successful pay-per-view events and has plenty of high capacity venues. Last year Kazakh star Gennady Golovkin competed on British soil. But gifted American Terence โBudโ Crawford remains in the promoterโs long term view.
โNo truth that โBudโ Crawford demanded $7 million to fight Manny Pacquiao,โ Arum also said. โHe is a consummate professional and always reasonable.โ