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Source: Dennis Gasgonia, ABS-CBN News

MANILA, Philippines – Boxing promoter Bob Arum will submit to Manny Pacquiao proposals from three possible opponents of the new World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight champion when he meets his ward at his birthday bash next week.

However, this early, the Top Rank promotions chief said Pacquiao is likely to ignore Marquez’s proposal.

“Marquez's proposal was so out of line for anything that he got before… I don't think Manny is going to pay any attention to it,” Arum said in an interview with FanHouse.com.

The Mexican champion has repeatedly been asking for a third fight against Pacquiao, who knocked him down 4 times in their 2 previous meetings.

For a third installment of a Pacquiao-Marquez fight, Arum said Marquez is demanding a purse twice as big as he received when he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in September 2009.

Marquez reportedly received a guaranteed $2 million fight purse in a bout where he was defeated in a lopsided fashion.

“He lost that fight, but at least, that's the starting point: ask for every dollar you made on the Mayweather fight and now we can start talking, but don't ask for double what you made in the Mayweather fight and expect anybody to pay attention,” said Arum.

The other proposals he is expected to submit to Pacquiao are from “Sugar’ Shane Mosley and Andre Berto.


Mayweather fight

Arum also branded as silly Oscar dela Hoya’s reported claim that he has been preventing Pacquiao from fighting unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr.

“That's totally nonsense because you can argue over the first situation, the first go-around, they had one position, we had another. But on the second go-around, we gave in to every one of their positions,” said the veteran boxing promoter.

During the first round of negotiations, the camps of Pacquiao and Maywather failed to reach an agreement when the American demanded Olympic-style drug testing.

Pacquiao eventually gave in to this demand in the second round of talks, but Mayweather’s camp denied that negotiations had been on-going in the first place.

“We were so anxious to make the fight and Mayweather didn't want to fight, and even today, we will do the fight unconditionally, unconditionally! And all Mayweather has to do is say he wants the fight,” said Arum.

“So, to say that we don't want to make the fight or we are preventing the fight to happen is a little silly. All he has to do is have Mayweather get up and make a statement 'I'm ready to fight',” he added.