{"id":63785,"date":"2015-10-28T05:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63785"},"modified":"2015-10-28T05:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T10:05:20","slug":"bob-arum-a-farewell-fight-of-pacman-needs-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/28\/bob-arum-a-farewell-fight-of-pacman-needs-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Arum: A farewell fight of PacMan needs to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; Bob Arum, CEO of TOP Rank Promotions said a farewell fight of Manny Pacquiao needs to happen in the first quarter of 2016 before the Filipino boxing icon\u2019s campaign as Senator for the upcoming presidential elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Arum met with the world\u2019s boxing champ in New York and told him about his fight not later than April 9, a month before the elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cManny said to me at a dinner in New York last week, \u2018Bob, I\u2019m going to be a senator. I can\u2019t fight any longer as a senator because I can\u2019t be absent and this fight has to take place no later than April 9, and it will be my last fight,\u201d said Arum in a report by Reuben Terrado of Spin.ph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pacquiao is one of the recipients of the 2015 Asian Game Changer of the Year Award in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">TOP Rank\u2019s Bob Arum is eyeing for Terence Crawford, Amir Khan, and Timothy Bradley as Pacquiao\u2019s possible opponent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Crawford\u2019s scheduled match on weekend against Dierry Jean is for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) light welterweight crown, while Bradley will take on Brandon Rios next month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Khan was reportedly backed out after negotiations for the match. However, Arum is still communicating with Khan\u2019s attorney Robert Davis and uncle Taz to resume their negotiation about the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Top Rank\u2019s CEO believed that Pacquiao\u2019s plan to run in the senatorial post has something to do with his dream to seek presidential post in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In order to fulfill his dream of becoming a president, and if he really wants to serve the Filipinos, Pacquiao needs to end his boxing career soonest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; Bob Arum, CEO of TOP Rank Promotions said a farewell fight of Manny Pacquiao needs to happen &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":1532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-63785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-p-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}