MANNY PACQUIAO will defend his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight belt against American Timothy Bradley on June 9 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, USA. “From our end, the fight is done. I just got off the phone with (Top Rank’s) Bob Arum and Man­ny, so we’re done. I don’t assume there will be a problem from the Bradley side,” the Filipino ring icon’s long time adviser Michael Koncz told ESPN boxing writer Dan Rafael on Monday.Koncz and Arum discussed the Pacquiao-Bradley fight in San Antonio, Texas last Saturday (Sunday in Manila) during Nonito Donaire’s fight against Wilfredo Vasquez.

“We’ve been talking about this for over a month and we always had a Plan B in case Mayweather didn’t happen. I took Manny tapes of all of the opponents we were talking about and he watched them with his wife, Jinkee. Brad­ley was one of them, as everybody knows,” Koncz told ESPN.com.

Besides saying that the deal already has a framework, Koncz did not specify other details like the division of the fight revenue, “But the truth is my (promotional) agreement with Bradley lays out certain parameters for a Pacquiao fight, so there is a framework al­ready,” he said.Top Rank President Todd Du­Boef also told Rafael that they are set to have further conversations with Bradley and his manage­ment early this week to finally seal the deal.

“We came to terms with Top Rank on the fight and Manny has approved everything,” Koncz added.

Pacquiao’s much-awaited match against unbeaten Ameri­can Floyd Mayweather Jr. was stalled for the third time because of disagreements on the fight date as well as the division of the fight purse.

After negotiations with Pac­quiao’s camp collapsed, May-weather announced he would take on junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto on May 5.(J.Ramos, MT)

< Prev		Next >