Gamer
11-11-2010, 12:01 AM
c/p By Michael Marley
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—A boxing reporter has to operate the way Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades did back when they ran the old USSR.
They often said they always trust but they always verfiy.
I am unable to verify this immediately but I don't know why Bob Arum would say it beyond the continuing Top Rank-Golden Boy feud.
The news concerns Golden Boy executive vice president and shareholder "Sugar" Shane Mosley.
Arum contends that Mosley has informed him that, while he retains his executive stripes and stock in Oscar de la Hoya's company, the 38-year-old veteran is operating as a boxing free agent as to the remainder of his own career.
Evidently, GBP and Mosley made some kind of break on this after Mosley's disappointing draw against "Latin Snake" Sergio Mora.
This may tie in with the news item of last week that Mosley has cut ties to lawyer Judd Burstein and is now being advised by rap music and boxing guru James Prince.
What springs to mind immediately is Mosley being a prime candidate for Manny Pacquiao's next bout, assuming he leaps over Antonio Margarito at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Saturday night.
Pacman plans to box in both May and November of 2011 and Mosley is a nice but less lucrative alternative if, for legal or any other reason, the Manny-Floyd Mayweather super bout still cannot be put together.
“Mosley is operating indepedently of Golden Boy,” Arum said, sidling up to me at ringside at the Pacman/Margarito open workouts Tuesday at the Gaylord Texan Hotel.
“Mosley told me it's up to him who he fights now, it's his decision.”
I mentioned that Arum has always had a soft spot in his steelecase heart of the gentlemanly Mosley.
“He is,” Arum said, “a lovely guy.”
I suppose Shane's lovelieness has multiplied tenfold in Uncle Bob's view if it is, indeed, true that he's broken free of the Goldens with whom Arum is continually feuding.
Actually, Mosley is as deserving of a Pacquiao bout as much as anybody not named Mayweather.
Meanwhile, Arum who turns 79 next month 10 days ahead of Pacman's 32nd natal day, is still floating about the sweet as a lollipop, 13 minute long "60 Minutes" profile of the Pinoy Idol which aired Sunday night.
"I did not know the program had such an international reach," Arum said, "but my sister, who lives in Jerusalem, called me to tell me she saw it."
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—A boxing reporter has to operate the way Nikita Khrushchev and his comrades did back when they ran the old USSR.
They often said they always trust but they always verfiy.
I am unable to verify this immediately but I don't know why Bob Arum would say it beyond the continuing Top Rank-Golden Boy feud.
The news concerns Golden Boy executive vice president and shareholder "Sugar" Shane Mosley.
Arum contends that Mosley has informed him that, while he retains his executive stripes and stock in Oscar de la Hoya's company, the 38-year-old veteran is operating as a boxing free agent as to the remainder of his own career.
Evidently, GBP and Mosley made some kind of break on this after Mosley's disappointing draw against "Latin Snake" Sergio Mora.
This may tie in with the news item of last week that Mosley has cut ties to lawyer Judd Burstein and is now being advised by rap music and boxing guru James Prince.
What springs to mind immediately is Mosley being a prime candidate for Manny Pacquiao's next bout, assuming he leaps over Antonio Margarito at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Saturday night.
Pacman plans to box in both May and November of 2011 and Mosley is a nice but less lucrative alternative if, for legal or any other reason, the Manny-Floyd Mayweather super bout still cannot be put together.
“Mosley is operating indepedently of Golden Boy,” Arum said, sidling up to me at ringside at the Pacman/Margarito open workouts Tuesday at the Gaylord Texan Hotel.
“Mosley told me it's up to him who he fights now, it's his decision.”
I mentioned that Arum has always had a soft spot in his steelecase heart of the gentlemanly Mosley.
“He is,” Arum said, “a lovely guy.”
I suppose Shane's lovelieness has multiplied tenfold in Uncle Bob's view if it is, indeed, true that he's broken free of the Goldens with whom Arum is continually feuding.
Actually, Mosley is as deserving of a Pacquiao bout as much as anybody not named Mayweather.
Meanwhile, Arum who turns 79 next month 10 days ahead of Pacman's 32nd natal day, is still floating about the sweet as a lollipop, 13 minute long "60 Minutes" profile of the Pinoy Idol which aired Sunday night.
"I did not know the program had such an international reach," Arum said, "but my sister, who lives in Jerusalem, called me to tell me she saw it."