A few weeks ago, Top Rank's Bob Arum told BoxingScene.com's Ryan Songalia that Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito was a possible plan for later in the year. Margarito was scheduled to appear on the Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey undercard on March 13 in Texas. A few issues with regaining his boxing license has shifted his next ring appearance to May 8 in Mexico. Arum wanted Margarito in the Pacquiao-Clottey co-feature to build in the direction of possibly making that fight at a later point in the year.
"We can continue to sit and wait around to see if they are going to give him back his license and therefore we had to take him off the card. What happened was the commission in California - where Margarito was suspended - interfered and we could not get the license in time, but we plan to continue the process and we expect for them to give it to him soon," Arum told The Record .
If Margarito looks good in his next two fights, the possiblity is still there to put him in the ring with Pacquiao in the month of November.
"We will see what happens with [Margarito], but if everything turns out well and Manny wins the fight with Clottey and Margarito wins one or two more fights more, then the plan would continue to put them together in November," Arum said.
"We going step by step. First we have to get him a license to fight in the United States and then we will see, but he's an ideal candidate for a fight with Pacquiao. It would be a very interesting fight."
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