Top Rank promoter Bob Arum believes the highly-anticipated fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. may be further put aside following the arrest of the brash undefeated boxer from Michigan in Las Vegas over the weekend.
With Mayweather facing a long court case in 2011, Arum decided to pick three-time former world champion Sugar Shane Mosley as Pacquiao’s next opponent.
Mayweather was detained at the Clark Country jail Friday after he was accused of poking a security guard in the face outside his home last November. He was arrested at the posh Bellagio Resort and Casino in the Las Vegas strip.
Initially, no bail was ordered and police initially said the 32-year-old Mayweather might remain in jail pending a court date.
But Mayweather’s lawyer Karen Winckler intervened, according to an AP report, paving the way for him to be freed less than 12 hours after his arrest.
Outside of it, the former Olympic bronze medalist also faces misdemeanor battery and assault charges in Las Vegas and in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a felony coercion, grand larceny and robbery case stemming from a September dispute with his children and their mother at her home as also cited by the same wire report.
"It’s crazy. It gets crazy and crazy," said Arum, who returned to the U.S. Sunday after attending Pacquiao’s birthday celebration in General Santos City over the weekend.
"They’re out to nail him and I hope he’s taking it seriously because if he’s not taking it seriously, he can be away for a long, long stretch."
Pacquiao, who just turned 32, has nothing to say but to wish well the same man who once accused him of being under the influence of an illegal substance.
"He (Mayweather Jr.) is facing a lot of problems. I hope he can find a solution so he can get back to fighting," said the eight-time world division champion and world’s top pound-for-pound fighter in Filipino.
A Pacquiao-Mayweather fight had been twice aborted as the two camps failed to agree on the major issue of drug testing to be conducted on both fighters.
- JVP, KY, GMANews.TV
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