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BEVERLY HILLS >> May Pacquiao figures to go down as an all-time great prize-fighter, so it’s always a big deal when there is a news conference for one of his upcoming bouts. It was no different Thursday when Pacquiao and welterweight champion Jessie Vargas got together at the Beverly Hills Hotel to promote their Nov. 5 title fight at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. However, the most intriguing aspect that came out of the proceedings was not what the fighters think of one another. Rather, it’s that their fight will be distributed on pay-per-view by their promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank Inc., for $59.95. Pacquiao is still under contract to HBO, which has televised so many of his f...

LAS VEGAS — Bob Arum expected Terence Crawford to beat Viktor Postol on Saturday night. When it happened, he was still speechless. “I’m not talking to you guys anymore,” Arum told writers after Crawford took Postol’s WBO light-welterweight championship and kept his own WBA version. “From now on I’m Al Haymon. I’m putting everything on Twitter.” Arum isn’t really Al Haymon, one of his three main promotional rivals in the fight game and a confirmed Invisible Man. And “anymore” probably doesn’t mean “forever.” Arum is just peeved that some commentators didn’t think Crawford-Postol was worthy of pay-per-view status. More to the point, Arum was laboring with a promotion that needed about 80,000 ...