Arum confirms Boxingtalk's breaking news on Morales-Pacquiao doubleheader!

By G. Leon

12/07/2005

Arum confirms Boxingtalk's breaking news on Morales-Pacquiao doubleheader!

Moments ago, promoter Bob Arum confirmed Boxingtalk's breaking news regarding the September 10 Morales-Pacquiao doubleheader and potential rematch on a December HBO PPV. "That's absolutely correct," stated Arum, who also said, I think they're both in tougher than you think. Zahir Raheem has a tough style for anyone to fight and the guy Pacquiao's fighting is also a tough customer." Based on HBO accepting this doubleheader, Boxingtalk had congratulate Arum for having so much juice with the network. "It's better to have it, than not to have it," said the Bobfather. As for Raheem suddenly being acceptable to HBO with a loss on his record when he wasn't good enough as Tony Holden's undefeated Olympian, Arum stated, "it's not about getting him approved, it's about getting him the right match-up and Erik Morales is a tremendous fighter." Indeed he is. A tremendous fighter that has just fought Marco Antonio Barrera and Manny Pacquiao in consecutive fights, something Arum didn't point out because he was probably getting slightly peturbed by my line of questioning. There will be much more to follow. (6:42 PM ET)