Arum: We didn't get Pavlik info in time

Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said the company postponed Kelly Pavlik’s upcoming fight with Sergio Mora because they did not get Pavlik’s medical clearance in time to finalize the pay-per-view portion of the show.

“There are millions of dollars involved and other fighters and we didn’t want to jerk anyone,” said Arum, whose company was going to air the event independently on June 27. “We didn’t want to go through with it without having a clear report on the status of his hand.”

Pavlik admitted he suffered a minor staph infection in his hand, which developed from a cut suffered during training for February’s bout with Marco Antonio Rubio, but said the cut healed weeks ago and he already received clearance from a doctor.

Arum said he didn’t get that information in time.

“We didn’t want to do everything at the last minute,” said Arum. “We ran out of time to get the commercials and the other materials to the cable systems.”

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