DALLAS, TEXAS - Count unbeaten whirlwind Edwin Valero of Venezuela out as the next piñata to be popped by Manny Pacquiao.
Valero, 27-0 (27 KO's), already banned from fighting in the USA with a DUI and a plate in his head, allegedly beat up his wife enough to collapse a lung and cause other bumps and bruises leading to her hospitalization and possibly his arrest.
At this point, information, according to Top Rank President Bob Arum, is conflicting. It's going to take time to sort out and possibly salvage this situation.
How can Arum work on behalf of a low-life like Valero when he publicly promotes high and mighty Manny Pacquiao?
But how can Arum, even if Valero is cleared, possibly put an unstable man as Valero appears, into a multi-million dollar event in front of a worldwide audience against his golden goose (Manny Pacquiao) and expect him to toe the line for three months of training, media intrusion and the actual fight?
There is no way Valero can handle the pressure that would be upon him and Arum is too smart to risk it anyway.
It reminds me of the haunting time in the fall of 1996 when promoter Dino Duva pleaded during a World Boxing Council Convention ratings meeting to not force Oliver McCall into a rematch with Lennox Lewis because he was well, unstable and in rehab, and shouldn't be in public, let alone fighting for the vacant WBC heavyweight title.
Duva asked that they go to the next available contender to fight Lewis and maybe McCall would be ready to fight the winner of that fight or soon after.
But the powers that be forced the rematch and McCall suffered a nervous breakdown during the fight. It was the saddest episode in boxing or live television I have ever seen. Lennox Lewis was awarded the WBC crown in less than a glorious moment, but it was of no fault of Lewis.
While Valero certainly has his civil rights to explore before being counted out of the Pacquiao sweepstakes, trust me, it's over as far as Edwin Valero is concerned.
Comments
Time to retire. To see all these lowlifes being lined up to fight Pacman, e.g., Valero, Margarito,no way to bow out gracefully.
The same can be said for Mayweather Jr. he just has more money to buy his way out of trouble.
Look at his wife...she is so fragile...how can Valero lay hands on her? This guy should be sent to jail. He is like Roger Mayweather.
What a f'in idiot- you have a bright and VERY lucrative future ahead of you and you keep messing up like this. If he fought Pacquiao he would not only make BY FAR the biggest pay day of his career but would also catapult into superstardom.
But now that may never happen because he won't be able to get a Visa to fight in Texas (he's already banned everywhere else for other mental lapses). This guy is a scumbag and a complete idiot.
I saw his wife when he fought demarco, she is breath taking, Gorgeous!!
I could'nt imagine what drove him to beat her so bad that it cloppsed her lungs and had to be hospitalized.
he didnt only lost his chance on fighting pacquiao, but could possibly lost his wife and children, what an IDIOT!
valero should fix his provate life and get away with the authority or else his dream will became dream forever. He has a good future if he continue to live in peace, but if he always get involved in trouble he will gain nothing.
I'm afraid this Valero is fast becoming the worse version of the Mayweathers, FloydJr. specially. He's got to be rehabbed and constantly psycho-counseled, or better yet, he should find another job.
No shot at Pacquaio? But a 15-year-old girl rapist is okay one fighter on the pinoy power 3 and Tyson is going in and out of jail, unreal Americans sometimes do not think when they write. Just like Mayweather demand of blood testing, they want the fight so much to happen more than so than Pacquaio yet they are not putting pressure on Mayweather to drop the demand.
Valero going Loco, his wife looks like my cousin. a lovely face. in the Philippines, if somebody beat their wife the neighbors will beat the husband to the pulp.
maybe Valero going Gay!
maricon!
do you idiots think a "nice guy" makes such a fearsome boxer? NO: a KILLER!! --that's why gentleman Pacquiao is a such a rarity, most others are violent maniacs.
And Valero's wife yes amazing to look at but it's not YOU LIVING WITH HER! so you have NO IDEA what goes between them. and obviously it doesn't take much bring out the raving lunatic in Vallero who can't even control himself hold back his power shots from his lady.
it's a tragedy like Tyson
Valero caught his wife with another man on top. Confirmed from Venezuelan paper...
Now I believe that Valero is really a knock-out artist!!
It is now 28-0!! He just knocked-out his wife, hehehe...
I think Valero is getting better for every fight. I'm sure that he knock-out his wife in just few seconds in round one! His record is 28-0, all knocked-out including his wife...
man the only way i see edwin hitting his wife is if she was having an affair with edwin valero.the reporters need to ask better questions in why edwin hit his wife.that's the only possible way i feel.as gorgeous as she is i would feel insecure and its natural cause guys can insecure about their women.
@filipinosupremo, what do you mean by "man the only way i see edwin hitting his wife is if she was having an affair with edwin valero."??
Of course his wife should have an affair with Edwin Valero, because she is her wife. right??
Well the news should also include that Valero also knocked-out another guy who had affair wit his wife if there is ever. But the news only says, he only battered his wife! Hmmm, we have to wait for the news, I guess... For the meantime its 28-0, 28 knock-outs. If there is another man, then it's 29-0...
Valero should fight Mayweather. They seem to be both unstable and irritable.
Valero vs KFC
"Sports don't build character, they reveal it."
The only probable chance now for the US to soften up on Valero's visa requirement is for him to renounce communism and his president Hugo Chavez (including the tattoo on his chest) and petition for asylum in the US. He can still fight in Texas but his recent brash with his own country's law only made his US hope more difficult if not impossible!
Possibly abusive Edwin Valero gets no shot at Pacquiao now but he may possibly get shot by the family of his wife, be careful Valero, the fist is no much to the sniper...
don't condemn him, i hate to say it but traditionally it's quite normal for such transgressions in south-american households.
i'm not condoning the behaviour, but its probable that valero was brought up in a household where it was typical behaviour and he's an incredibly strong guy and needs to understand that. he needs therapy, his wife will most probably drop any charges and i don't see criminal proceedings taking place...
bleacherreport.com/articles/369050-manny-pacquiao-could-potentially-face-edwin-valero-in-his-next-fight
his wife looks terrified in that picture...
no disrespect to matt, but you're a white american i don't think you can really identify with edwin valero. asking how could 'bob arum' represent a 'low-life' sounds awfully ironic. bob might not beat his wife, but i couldn't have a lower opinion of a person in boxing than i do of bob arum.
bob should be trying to get valero the right type of marriage counselling, and help him work through his 'self-destructive' tendencies. i'm not too sure about valero's back story, but i bet it's as fascinating as mike tyson's, there surely some demons in his past.
manny was suggested as being an 'exception' for a brutal ko artist, i agree, he seemed to grow up in a loving home, loves his mother and father. he's the tiger woods of boxing (wink, wink).
bleacherreport.com/articles/369050-manny-pacquiao-could-potentially-face-edwin-valero-in-his-next-fight
Valero and Mayweather should fight because they are both women beater. Any man who beats defenseless women are the lowest of lowest scam. There is one scam in Pacquiao circle, Chavit Singson. This low life scam Singson beats his mistress.
what a f***ing coward, how the hell can you beat on a woman? I can understand shaking the f*** out of her if she goes nuts but damn man, you're a f***ing boxer with pop in those hands. Wow and she's beautiful too. Tsk tsk, f***ing coward! He must have been taking classes from the Mayweathers who also beat their women. I hope now that you don't get a shot at pac, regardless you're @ss would have got laid out by MP. F***ing coward!!!
Ganito kasi ang nangyari dyan, kasalukuyang nagluluto ang misis ni Valero habang nagloloving-loving sila, eh sa likot nilang dalawa biglang nahulog yung kaserola, nagulat si Valero at medyo may Bell Shock (parang war shock)pa sya kaya akala nya nagbell na para sa first round kaya inulan nya kagad ng suntok yung misis nya, kaya ayun knock-out sa ospital ang bagsak ng misis nya...
wth.only gay husband beat wife.
i think valero should fight manny pacquiao to reacived a big knockout in his life.
Valero does not have a "plate in his head", he had a brain bleed from a motorcycle accident years ago that healed..he fought last year in Texas but has visa issues relted to his Dui...
THAT IS A SURE KO FOR THIS FREAK FIGHTER... IF HE GOT CONVICTED BY BEATING A GIRL THEN IT SHOULD BE APPLIED ALSO TO JEFF MAYWEATHER.
KO FOR SURE! I HOPE THEY DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE BENIFIT OF THE ABUSED GIRL.
I am a Pacfan and Pacnut but one thing that make me puke on a couple of Pacman entries during his fights is Chavit Singson. Why is Pacman hanging around with a low life woman beater. They were not even living together when he beats his defenseless mistress whom he had five children. Wake up Pac!!! get rid of this low life monster. He even bragged that the woman was lucky that he did not kill her.
damn...the three muskeeters are down....margarito on cheating....jmm is past-his-prime....valero for wife-beating......
pac has to prepare for the klits......
if arum stupid enough to clear valero in this mess i will boycott pacquiao, even i did support pacquiao for ten yrs here in USA i am thinking of boycotting him next fight, i did see it clear now that pacquiao support criminals politician in the phillippines and his major supporter are politicians criminal even roach questions him in this matter, f..king snake
It's a simple promotion: Good Guy vs Bad Guy, what is so complicated in that? it's the same as Pacquiao vs Mayweather.
But in saying that I wouldn't want either of those fights for Pacquiao, why should he bolster the careers of those two idiots?
Both of them just want to go down in history as being in the same ring as Pacquiao, Manny shouldn't give them that credibility.
Manny is a certain Hall of Famer ... don't give Valero or Mayweather a chance to be mentioned along with Pacquiao, let them only dream about telling their grand kids they were in the ring with Manny.
The only reason i want to see a Pac/Valero fight is so that Pac can avenge Valero's wife beatings by him beating this scumbag.
I wish, all mentally unstable husbands, before doing anything bad to their wives, has the ability to think of the days when they were just starting to court their wives. This I am sure will dampen their tendency to become violent against their wives. No wife deserves to be beaten by her husband under any circumstances. For the few glimpses we had about Mrs. Valero, she seems a good wife and lady from where we are sitting and not to mention, a plain and simple beautiful woman.
Valero should fight Floydie Jr. and let us make the winner the best p4p lady beater of all times. One contender is Uncle Roger. Beating ladies runs in the family, huh, Floydie?
The world is full of trickery and broken dreams. But this is still a beautiful boxing world. Hope nothing irreparable damage happens to Mrs. Edwin Valero.
It will be much better if commentators confine their posts to the main topic of the article. Many are posting their irrelevant opinions that are poorly conveyed. For me, as far as this post is concerned, I plead guilty. You guys are wasting your time and our time and spaces in this post. Wake up!!!!!
This pi.sses me off. Floyd Mayroid should go to jail for beating the mother of his kids.
Total Truth you're a du.mba.ss. SHout out to the ESPN message boards. Bwahahahahahahahaha!
I wonder if Arum is going to blame the trainer like he did with MargaCHEATO
bueno deseo ver videos de edwin valero con manny pacquiao
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