By Allen Fox: Bob Arum and WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao will sit down next Tuesday on January 10th to figure out whom Pacquiao’s next opponent will be.

As most boxing fans already know, Arum has picked out four possible opponents – Timothy Bradley, Lamont Peterson, Juan Manuel Marquez & Miguel Cotto – for Pacquiao to fight in April or May of this year. Of the four, two of them Timothy Bradley and Miguel Cotto – are in Arum’s Top Rank stable.

Arum says he’s going to list the positives and the negatives as well as go over the money each of them will bring to the table for a fight with Pacquiao.

In terms of bringing in the most money, Cotto and Marquez are easily the two biggest moneymakers for Pacquiao. The downside of Pacquiao facing either of those fighters is that he’s already fought both of them before. He’s fought Marquez three times and Cotto once. It could be difficult for Pacquiao to be as motivated to fight them compared to Bradley and Peterson.

Arum told RingTV “I really want to lay this out as judicially as I can, and put forth all the plusses and minuses of each of the fights and the economic consequences and let Manny choose. He’s the guy that’s got to go in the ring.”

Arum is right about that. Pacquiao is the one that has to go in the ring to fight, but I’m sure Arum is going to let Pacquiao know which of the four fighters he wants him to fight, and it’s hard to imagine that Pacquiao will go against Arum’s wishes.

So instead of seeing Pacquiao in with Peterson or Bradley, it’s going to be Cotto or Marquez. Those are the ones that make the big money and Cotto would seem to have the lead due to his contract with Top Rank recently expiring last December.

This could be a big year for Pacquiao in making money if he gets Cotto and a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., who could face Pacquiao near the end of the year.