By Chris Williams: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions is convinced that Bob Arum doesn’t want to make the fight Manny Pacquiao vs. Manny Pacquiao fight happen for some reason. De La Hoya thinks Arum is lying about wanting to make that happen.

De La Hoya said on his twitter “Bob Arum, please, please stop lying to the public. Sit down with my CEO Richard and make the fight [Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.] happen before Manny asks questions. Hahahaha. Bob Arum is saying there are a bunch of investors he’s talking to to try and make Pac vs. Mayweather. I can’t stop laughing. He’s probably going to say ‘Well, when I promoted Jack Johnson.’ Yes, I’m positive, he’s lying again. I’m sick and tired of this guy not wanting to make good fights happen with us. Please, Bob is senile and stubborn and doesn’t these fights to happen. I’ll talk about it so I can expose this guy to the fans who are demanding the fight. But it’s okay for him to lie behind the press?”

As you can tell, De La Hoya thinks Arum is a liar about his intention of trying to put the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight together. De La Hoya believes that Arum doesn’t want to deal with Golden Boy Promotions and won’t do the fight in the end. De La Hoya doesn’t say whether he believes that Arum is merely trying to protect his cash cow Pacquiao from being tarnished by getting exposed by Mayweather, but that’s what De La Hoya should be saying. He seems to be missing the boat here. I don’t think Arum isn’t putting the fight together because of a grudge with Golden Boy. I just think Arum is protecting a money-making machine, that’s all. It’s like having a fancy race horse that everyone thinks is the best horse around. But instead of matching the horse against the very best horse, and losing the praise from fans after your horse gets beat, you just parade him around and race him against lesser horses and make a lot of money each time out.

As soon as Pacquiao gets beaten by Mayweather, the Pacquiao Pay per view money will likely drop dramatically because boxing fans won’t want to pay to see a guy that lost to Mayweather. While Manny and Arum will get a nice payday for the Mayweather fight, it might dry up future paydays and make it hard for Pacquiao to get back to where he once was. That’s what I think is holding Arum back from putting his cash cow Pacquiao in with Mayweather. It’s not a grudge or unwillingness to work with Golden Boy, it’s the fear of the gravy train coming to a screeching halt. It’s like social check being sliced in half. Arum won’t want to have that happen when Pacquiao is drawing a lot of milk still without taking risky fights.