By Chris Williams: It looks like Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is having second thoughts about putting his cash cow fighter former WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao back in with Tim Bradley now that Pacquiao has been beaten and looked slow and old in the process last Saturday night.

Arum told the Las Vegas Sun “I don’t want to do a rematch. This fight was a one-sided fight. If it had been scored properly, 10-2 or 9-3, who would be asking for a rematch? Nobody. Just because the officials screwed up, that doesn’t justify a rematch.”

No, the judges did the job they were supposed to do by shutting out the huge pro-Pacquiao crowd, who were cheering every miss that Pacquiao made with his shots, while keeping a silent as church mice each time Bradley would land. The fact is Bradley schooled Pacquiao by using movement and taking him deep in the fight to expose Pacquiao’s aging legs. The judge did the right thing by giving it to Bradley.

Arum is keen on putting Pacquiao in with another one of his Top Rank stable fighters Juan Manuel Marquez, because it’s a bigger paying bout than the Bradley rematch, and it will be an in house anyway. Arum can’t afford to have Pacquiao whipped again in a fight that won’t likely bring big money. Bradley’s not a huge star, and with a lot of people thinking that Pacquiao should have won, it could mean even smaller PPV numbers in the rematch. I think that’s the worry for Arum.

He can’t have Pacquiao get beaten again, because as it is, it ruined the possibilities of Pacquiao ever getting a 50-50 financial split with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Oh, I’m sure Arum will say that Pacquaio really won the Bradley fight when Mayweather points to the loss to give a reason for offering less than a 50-50 deal, but it’s not going to fly.

Pacquiao lost that fight and Arum won’t be able to convince Mayweather that Pacquiao deserves a 50-50 deal, especially if the PPV numbers are bad for the fight. I have a feeling that the official PPV numbers will never be released for the Pacquiao-Bradley fight if they turn out to be bad. That still won’t help Pacquiao, because Mayweather will know why they’re not being realized.