MANILA, Philippines – Sineseryoso ni Bob Arum ang pagrerekober ni Manny Pacquiao mula sa kanyang shoulder injury.
Gusto ng Top Rank boss na makitang ma-galing na ang injury ni Pacquiao bago niya itak-da ang susunod na laban ng Filipino icon.
Sa panayam ni Steve Carp ng Las Vegas Review-Journal, nagbigay si Arum ng ultimatum kay Pacquiao na sumailalim sa medical checkup kung gusto nitong lumaban sa susunod na taon.
“He’s doing a million things right now. But I’m not going to make a fight for him until he sees (Dr. Neal) ElAttrache. ElAttrache said he won’t clear him until there’s an MRI,” sabi ni Arum.
Si ElAttrache, ang sikat na surgeon na nakabase sa Los Angeles, ang nag-opera sa torn rotator cuff sa kanang balikat ni Pacquiao na nalasap nito habang nagte-training para sa laban niya kay Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Natalo si Pacquiao kay Mayweather noong May at planong muling lalaban sa 2016.
Ibinasura na ni Arum ang pagtatakda ng laban ni Pacquiao sa Middle East dahil makakaapek-to ito sa pay-per-view sales.
“We’re looking at the first 3-months of the year,” wika ni Arum. “We played around with having Manny fight in the Mideast. But if you do a fight in the Mideast, you lose half the pay per view. And the people we were talking to couldn’t guarantee the live gate would make up for the loss on the pay per view, so it’s not going to happen there.”
“We’ll look to do it in the States. But you have to be careful with the date. You don’t want to go head-to-head with the (NCAA basketball) Final Four, so maybe it’s in late February or mid-April after the tournament,” dagdag pa ng promoter.
Ang mga pangalan nina Amir Khan, Kell Brook, Terence Crawford at Lucas Matthysse ang mga posibleng labanan ni Pacquiao.
“Those are all fights we can make. But we’ll see how Manny’s doing health-wise and go from there,” sabi pa ni Arum. (DM)