Wait….What?
Pacquiao fought De La Hoya in 2008, since then he has had fought 12 times and only now they are bringing up that he had a recurring shoulder injury?
Hmmmm….
Arum said Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs), 36, has had a partial rotator cuff tear since he fought Oscar De La Hoya in 2008.
“Then he rested it for a couple of months and it went away,” Arum said. “It’s a recurring kind of injury. It can kick up again, which it did in sparring [2½ weeks before] this fight. They gave him a series of treatments that enabled the pain to go away and then when he went into the fight, he was feeling absolutely no pain and using his right arm.
“I thought initially it was in the third round, but it was really sometime in the fourth round that he re-injured it. The doctor said this is the time for him to no longer have to live with that, to repair it and it will be as good as new.”
So, basically he was fine going into the fight according to Arum, but injured it during the fight. Injuries happen during fights all the time, so once again that is no excuse, you fight through it or you quit, but no excuses.