It was never a severe shoulder injury.
It was more of an annoyance injury that Pacquiao has had for years. It became a convenient excuse for Pacquiao’s horrible performance against Floyd Mayweather.
Pacquiao indeed had shoulder surgery but it wasn’t massive which is why he doesn’t feel the need to check in with his doctors or do any rehab.
Bob Arum knowing they need to keep up appearances is upset.
The 83-year-old Top Rank chief Arum responded angrily when asked when Pacquiao might fight again.
“As far as I’m concerned he’s not an active fighter,” said Arum, adding that Pacquiao had “not been acting very professionally.”
Pacquiao had surgery on May 7 to repair a torn right shoulder rotator cuff sustained in the unanimous points defeat against Floyd Mayweather in the richest fight of all time in Las Vegas five days earlier.
But Arum confirmed the Philippines congressman cancelled a planned check-up with his surgeon Neal ElAttrache at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles on July 4.
“Pacquiao was supposed to come over to see the doctor and for some reason he decided to cancel it,” Arum said.
“So he’s not acting very professionally.”
“When you have an operation like that you’ve got to get into rehab. You’ve got to get the doctor to look at it and to guide you as to the kind of rehab that you’ve got to do,” said Arum.
“He’s a grown man and he makes his own decisions but as far as I’m concerned he’s not an active fighter.”
Considering how much Pacquiao made from his fight with Mayweather don’t expect him back into the ring until at least 2016.
H/T Boxing Scene