“He (Margarito) certainly has the tools to pull off an upset,” Arum said during Tuesday’s open workout at the Gaylord Texan Hotel. “I mean he’s the bigger, stronger guy.”
Although the 78-year-old Arum, who promotes both fighters, believes that Pacquiao’s phenomenal speed is hard to overcome, he thinks Antonio’s chances increases if he can withstand Pacquiao’s initial salvo.
In the same vein, however, Arum believes that the fight’s outcome also hinges on Pacquiao to sustain a whirlwind attack throughout 12 rounds.
Arum also predicted a mammoth crowd at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington when Pacquiao and Margarito collide for the World Boxing Council super welterweight crown on November 13.
“Technically it won’t be a sellout,” Top Rank chief honcho and fight promoter Bob Arum told Manila-based sportswriters. “You can’t fill out this venue (capacity 108,000 when reconfigured).”
“We’re setting the target between 60,000 to 70,000," said Arum, who believed the Pacquiao-Margarito set-to could exceed the 50,994 crowd that the Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey drew in March also at the $1.2 billion facility.
The crowd turnout for the Pacquiao-Clottey fight was the third largest in the United States’ indoor boxing history after the Muhammad Ali-Leon Spinks tussle that drew 63,350 in 1978 at the Lousiana Superdome and the 59,995 that watched the Pernell Whitaker-Julio Cesar Chavez showdown at the Alamodome.
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