Arum on Pacquiao’s Election: “I Wanted It for Him”

Ronnie Nathanielsz, of BoxingScene.com, writes at Sports Illustrated: “An elated Bob Arum, the Top Rank promoter who was one of the few people who predicted that MANNY PACQUIAO would win (‘by a landslide’) against Roy Chiongbian in the lone congressional district of the Philippines province of Sarangani, prepared to leave for Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon with a wide ‘I told you so’ grin across his face.

‘Winning this election — for me, and certainly for Manny — is the greater thrill than any fight,’ Arum said from the Philippines. ‘It reminded me completely of the Oscar De La Hoya fight when everybody before the fight said it is a mismatch and De La Hoya is going to kill him. And it was a mismatch, but it was a mismatch the other way because Manny destroyed De La Hoya.'”

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