MANNY Pacquiao’s deposition on the defamation case against Floyd Mayweather Jr., originally scheduled to take place in the first week of January, has been postponed for a later time.
Michael Koncz, the Ring Magazine pound-for-pound king’s adviser, who flew to Los Angeles,
told the Manila Standard that “because of Floyd’s pending incarceration, the lawyer suggested that we postpone giving the deposition, which I did.”
Pacquiao was also scheduled to meet with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum to discuss his next fight and to study the various options presented to him.
But the Filipino ring icon, in the meantime, decided to postpone his planned New Year vacation with his family in the US and instead will spend time in General Santos City.
“I’ve got everything we need from Top Rank promoter Bob Arum anyway to discuss with Manny,” Koncz said.
“Manny and I will sit down and discuss his next fight, which is likely to take place in May or June,” added Koncz, who returns to Manila on Jan. 10.
He said that since a massive fight against Mayweather cannot take place in the middle of the year, Arum has provided a list of possible opponents, namedly Juan Manuel Marquez, Timothy Bradley, Miguel Cotto and Lamont Peterson, who beat Amir Khan by a split decision in Washington last Dec. 10.
Pacquiao prevailed over Marquez in the third fight of their controversial trilogy on the same card, where Bradley overcame former world champion Joel Casamayor via an eighth-round technical knockout on Nov. 12 in a World Boxing Organization light welterweight title fight.
Cotto, who lost by a 12th-round TKO to Pacquiao in a WBO welterweight title bout on Nov. 14, 2010, scored a convincing win in his rematch with Antonio Margarito in a WBO light middleweight title fight last Dec. 3.In that bout, Margarito retired in the 10th round. 3.
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