Arum doesn't deserve any credit, for me he's the most loathsome individual in boxing. He's Don King without the charisma & at least with King you could say he always put together a good fight card. He matched Pacquiao & Cotto because he wanted to get one fight out of Pac where all the money was his before a Mayweather or Mosley fight.

If Warren could do it believe me he would. If Kell Brook becomes a world champ, expect him to be matched with Khan, because whatever happens Warren wins.

You're looking at it as one guy's starpower fades, but the reality is it means the winner's star gets a lot brighter. Think about it this way, if he'd matched Pacquiao with Mayweather, it would have been big, probably approaching 2m PPV buys, but now with Manny having done that to Cotto, that fight is a true 50-50 (not like Pacquiao-Cotto allegedly was, I saw that for Manny from the Clottey fight), where the bookmakers will be very tight on it. A Pacquiao-Mayweather fight might now look to do close to 3m PPVs.

It was just smart matchmaking for Arum. He couldn't lose.