By Chris Williams: Michael Koncz, the adviser for Manny Pacquiao, says that the Filipino still hasn’t selected one of three options given to him by his promoter Bob Arum for Pacquiao’s November 10th or December 1st fight in Las Vegas, Nevada. The choices are from retreat opponents: Juan Manuel Marquez, Tim Bradley and Miguel Cotto. Whoever gets selected, it will be basically a rerun of Pacquiao’s past fights against three fighters.

Koncz said to RingTV “We haven’t committed to a date and we haven’t committed to an opponent.”

Cotto likely won’t get the fight with Pacquiao because he’s not interested in draining himself to give Pacquiao another catchweight handicap like in their first fight. If Pacquiao wants to fight him and make the big money that a Pacquiao-Cotto fight would bring in, Pacquiao will have to fight Cotto at 154 lbs, the maximum weight for the junior middleweight division. In other words, the fight won’t be happening because Pacquiao likely won’t agree to fight at 154 and face a big and powerful Cotto.

The real decision comes down to Marquez or Bradley for the fight with Pacquiao. Marquez is the better pay per view bout than Bradley, but Marquez will want more money and that means less money for Arum and Pacquiao. That might be enough to keep the fight from taking place unless Arum can get Marquez to take a smaller amount so that Pacquiao can make the big money he’s been making.

A Bradley-Pacquiao rematch could do really poorly compared to Pacquiao’s other fights in terms of PPV revenue. Their fight last June only did 700,000 PPV buys, which was slightly better than the figures that Pacquiao got for his bout with Joshua Clottey in 2010. A rematch might draw even less because few fans are interested in seeing Bradley and Pacquiao fight again.

I wouldn’t pay a dime to see Pacquiao fight any of the three options that Arum has picked out. It’s been done already and there’s no point in Pacquiao fighting these guys over and over again just because it makes money. I think Pacquiao’s legacy has taken a hard hit with the matches that Arum has made for him against Antonio Margarito, Shane Mosley and Joshua Clottey, three Top Rank stable fighters. There was no point at all in Pacquiao fighting those guys because none of them were relevant at the time he fought them.

The only thing they had going for them was that they were part of Arum’s stable. Mosley was totally shot, and had no business fighting for a title. Margarito hadn’t won a fight since 2009 and had recently come off of a long suspension over the hand-wrap scandal from his fight with Mosley. And Clottey was coming off of a loss to Cotto. Why would a fighter coming off of a loss be put in with Pacquiao?

I have no interest in seeing Arum put Pacquiao in with the three retreat opponents because there’s no point, and it’s just going to continue. Once Pacquiao fights one of the gang of three, he’ll then likely fight one of the two guys that were excluded this time, and after that it’ll be the last remaining guy.

Then it’ll likely start over again with Pacquiao working his way back around the table like musical chairs. It’s sad for boxing that there can’t be new fighters injected into the equation, like Floyd Mayweather Jr. or really anyone other than the three same old guys.

I’ll never pay a cent to see any of Pacquiao’s fights until he takes on Mayweather. I’m tired of seeing him put in with the same guys or fighters from Arum’s table. I want to see something new.