Promoter Bob Arum has no apparent interest in an immediate Pacquiao-Mayweather fight

The superfight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr, looks no closer to happening following Pacquiao’s narrow victory over Juan Manuel Marquez on the weekend. Mayweather’s handlers have come out and said Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum has said he has no interest in the Mayweather fight and has told them as much.

Arum has also confirmed it, saying Floyd can wait until November 2012. Arum plans to hold the fourth fight between Pacquiao-Marquez in either April or June of next year, at either the Dallas Cowboys stadium in Texas or a specially constructed outdoor venue in Las Vegas and then, should Pacman win, go on to face Mayweather later in the year.

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Fight action from the MGM Grand main event last night in Las Vegas between Pacquiao and Marquez…

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FANS feedback to decide eighth fighter for June 30 event- Press release from Matchroom sports:

Hot on the heels of the best Prizefighter yet, Matchroom Sport can announce the line-up for the next event – Prizefighter Super-Middleweights at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Wednesday June 30.

Willie “Big Bang” Casey won the latest thrilling instalment of Barry Hearn’s eight-man, one night tournaments in the super bantamweight division, and there’s a potential British title rematch on the cards in the 13th edition of the show between Merseyside pair Tony Dodson and Tony Quigley.
Quigley knocked Dodson out in the final round of their British super middleweight title fight in Liverpool last March and the duo could be drawn together, while Scotsman Stevie McGuire has also fought for the British title. Local interest will come from Waltham Abbey’s former Repton amateur Daniel Cadman, with Sheffield’s Peter Federenko and Birmingham’s Eddie McIntosh are also in the line-up, gunning for the £32,000 prize live on Sky Sports.

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