BT: You and Freddie have been pretty vocal about wanting Manny to fight Floyd next. Do you think...
AA: (Cutting in) Freddie has been very vocal about Manny wanting to fight Floyd because Freddie is about wanting the best for his fighter. Let me ask you something Ben. I'm not a promoter or anything like that, but let me ask you. If Manny wants to fight Floyd and if he fights Floyd, and hypothetically he loses to Floyd, the Marquez fight is still there. If Manny fights Marquez and he loses to Marquez, the Floyd fight is gone. So how can you tell me as a promoter that the best thing to do is to fight fucking Marquez again? I mean, Freddie's obviously been in the fight game all his life, he knows how it is, and he knows that the best thing for Manny is to fight Floyd, so what the fuck is the problem? Let me ask you something, why is it that Bob can do a co-promotion with everybody else out there? He can do a co-promotion with anyone, DiBella, this guy, that guy, but he won't do a co-promotion when it comes to Manny Pacquiao fighting somebody. Whoever Manny fights, he has to fight in-house. Why is that do you think? I wonder why. I wonder when somebody is going to start scratching their head and going, "Why is it that Bob doesn't want to share a co-promotion when it comes to Manny? Sure is a lot of money."
BT: Do you guys feel like he's trying to push Marquez onto Manny instead of Mayweather?
AA: I know that Michael Koncz says that he's having a meeting with Bob to negotiate the Mayweather fight. They're having a meeting on how to make sure that this fight doesn't happen. That's what their meeting is about. Michael Koncz is Bob Arum's bitch boy. He's not fooling anybody. Don't you think it was odd that there was such a push to get this accounting company [VisionQwest] out? Why is that? Why is it that anytime somebody wants to dig around and wants to sit there and look and see what's going on with Manny, making sure that the best interest is at hand, why is it that there's a full court press to get those people out of there? Why is that? That's what's going on. I mean, what is it? If you got nothing to hide, why is it such a push to get these people away? Why is Michael Koncz always trying to fucking make sure everything goes through him? If there's any problems with these accounting companies, why is it that he's always trying to stop that? Maybe the findings are going to come out. Checks being written to Michael Koncz from Top Rank, what's that all about? That sounds like the biggest conflict of interest that I've ever seen. I thought Michael Koncz was working for Manny in Manny's best interest. Why is he getting checks from fucking Top Rank?
BT: No clue. At the end of the day though, they're ultimately still able to convince Manny that he should do this or he should do that; he should get rid of VisionQwest or he should fight Marquez instead of Floyd.
AA: You're right. Well, if he thinks he's going to fucking bully me and he's going to congregate a few reporters to write some shit about me, and that's going to somehow fucking rattle me, we'll see who rattles who. We'll see how fucking dependent that these fighters are on me. They feel confident, strong, conditioned, and have no problems making the weight and making the cut with me. What the fuck does Bob Arum bring to the table? We'll see who these fighters need around, if they need me or if they need Bob. You wanna go? Well let's go. Let's see who needs who with these fighters. These fighters aren't stupid Ben, you know? We'll see. I got Omar Chavez here right now, so apparently, whatever bullshit that he was trying to come up with, it didn't fly with Chavez Sr. because he sent his son right over here to be trained by me and Freddie right now for the biggest fight of his career. We got both Chavez's right.
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AA: (Cutting in) Freddie has been very vocal about Manny wanting to fight Floyd because Freddie is about wanting the best for his fighter. Let me ask you something Ben. I'm not a promoter or anything like that, but let me ask you. If Manny wants to fight Floyd and if he fights Floyd, and hypothetically he loses to Floyd, the Marquez fight is still there. If Manny fights Marquez and he loses to Marquez, the Floyd fight is gone. So how can you tell me as a promoter that the best thing to do is to fight fucking Marquez again? I mean, Freddie's obviously been in the fight game all his life, he knows how it is, and he knows that the best thing for Manny is to fight Floyd, so what the fuck is the problem? Let me ask you something, why is it that Bob can do a co-promotion with everybody else out there? He can do a co-promotion with anyone, DiBella, this guy, that guy, but he won't do a co-promotion when it comes to Manny Pacquiao fighting somebody. Whoever Manny fights, he has to fight in-house. Why is that do you think? I wonder why. I wonder when somebody is going to start scratching their head and going, "Why is it that Bob doesn't want to share a co-promotion when it comes to Manny? Sure is a lot of money."
BT: Do you guys feel like he's trying to push Marquez onto Manny instead of Mayweather?
AA: I know that Michael Koncz says that he's having a meeting with Bob to negotiate the Mayweather fight. They're having a meeting on how to make sure that this fight doesn't happen. That's what their meeting is about. Michael Koncz is Bob Arum's bitch boy. He's not fooling anybody. Don't you think it was odd that there was such a push to get this accounting company [VisionQwest] out? Why is that? Why is it that anytime somebody wants to dig around and wants to sit there and look and see what's going on with Manny, making sure that the best interest is at hand, why is it that there's a full court press to get those people out of there? Why is that? That's what's going on. I mean, what is it? If you got nothing to hide, why is it such a push to get these people away? Why is Michael Koncz always trying to fucking make sure everything goes through him? If there's any problems with these accounting companies, why is it that he's always trying to stop that? Maybe the findings are going to come out. Checks being written to Michael Koncz from Top Rank, what's that all about? That sounds like the biggest conflict of interest that I've ever seen. I thought Michael Koncz was working for Manny in Manny's best interest. Why is he getting checks from fucking Top Rank?
BT: No clue. At the end of the day though, they're ultimately still able to convince Manny that he should do this or he should do that; he should get rid of VisionQwest or he should fight Marquez instead of Floyd.
AA: You're right. Well, if he thinks he's going to fucking bully me and he's going to congregate a few reporters to write some shit about me, and that's going to somehow fucking rattle me, we'll see who rattles who. We'll see how fucking dependent that these fighters are on me. They feel confident, strong, conditioned, and have no problems making the weight and making the cut with me. What the fuck does Bob Arum bring to the table? We'll see who these fighters need around, if they need me or if they need Bob. You wanna go? Well let's go. Let's see who needs who with these fighters. These fighters aren't stupid Ben, you know? We'll see. I got Omar Chavez here right now, so apparently, whatever bullshit that he was trying to come up with, it didn't fly with Chavez Sr. because he sent his son right over here to be trained by me and Freddie right now for the biggest fight of his career. We got both Chavez's right.
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so doesn't even care that pac could lose to either guy... he just wants to make sure that he get all the money. 
