Anything that Bob Arum says you have to take with a grain of salt, but it does appear that the fight is getting closer.
It isn’t done, so don’t be shocked if it falls apart in the final moments. Here is what Arum had to say via Boxing Scene.
“I cannot assure you that its gonna happen but certainly with this development in Miami and from what I know about the finalization of papers and everything I have to be optimistic. And I know that everybody that I deal with like Les Moonves of CBS and HBO’s Richard Plepler are all very positive of making this happen.”
Arum on another positive note added, “there are no issues that I can see that mean anything.”
He mentioned that the television issues between Showtime which has a six-fight $200 million deal with Mayweather of which four fights have been done and HBO Sports which telecasts Pacquiao’s fights “were solved two weeks ago.”
Arum told us – “ I think everything is positive and hopefully if everything keeps going well we’ll get it wrapped up by the end of the week.”
Arum added, “do I know for sure – no. But I’m an optimist.”