by Chris Williams: Bob Arum already had his great idea of signing on Tim Bradley to fight his cash cow former WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao turn around and bite Arum on the backside when Bradley pulled off a huge upset, beating Pacquiao by a 12 round decision and showing how Pacquiao has aged.

You know the old saying “Once burned twice shy.” Well, it looks like Arum doesn’t want to risk putting his cash cow Pacquiao back in with Bradley and have Pacquiao potentially beaten again.

Arum said to the Manila Bulletin “It was a one-sided fight.”

Yeah, yeah, I heard it all before. I guess it was one-sided like the Juan Manuel Marquez vs. Pacquiao II and III bouts, eh?

I guess I don’t blame Arum. If I had a cash cow that was beaten by one of my new signees, I wouldn’t want to put him back in with that fighter either. I’d be looking to milk him as long as I could by putting him in fights that I had a high degree of certainty he would win.

Arum is looking at possibly matching Pacquiao up with 39-year-old Marquez in November. Marquez wants the fight, Pacquiao apparently isn’t saying no to it thus far, and it’s a an in house fight for Arum, because Marquez is fighting for Top Rank now. Easy fight to make, and Marquez is after all about to turn 39.

Pacquiao should beat this time, right? Pacquiao is the younger guy by six years, but last November, it was the 38-year-old Marquez who appeared to be the younger fighter, as he beat Pacquiao to the punch and landed the cleaner shots. Pacquiao won the fight, but a ton of people still think that Marquez was the true winner of that fight. They obviously should have fought each other right after that fight instead of Arum slipping Bradley in between. It totally backfired on Arum, and I could see that coming from a mile away. Bradley knows how to move, and at this point in Pacquiao’s career, he struggles against guys that can move.

Arum and Pacquiao will meet next week to start deciding on who Pacquiao will fight next. Marquez is obviously the front runner right now because he brings in good money, he’s one of the Top Rank stable fighters, and probably because he didn’t look so sharp in his last fight against Sergiy Fedchenko.