Schaefer ends truce with Arum

So much for peace in our time.

After a brief hiatus this year during which they appeared to be working together in an effort to make big fights, Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions, boxing's two biggest matchmaking companies, are at each other's throats again.

At the crux of their latest war of words is -- surprise! -- trying to make the megafight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Richard Schaefer, Golden Boy's CEO, blasted Top Rank chairman Bob Arum for trying to prevent the fight from happening. Mayweather has secured May 5 at the MGM Grand Garden and would like to fight Pacquiao on that date. Arum refuses to commit to that date or site.

"The boxing fans are really sick and tired about the lies of Bob Arum," Schaefer told RingTV.com. "The fact is that yesterday he was lying, today he's lying, and tomorrow, he will still be lying. Once a liar, always a liar.

"Now, he comes again with these bull stories about negotiations and meetings taking place. Who the heck is he fooling?"

Arum, busy promoting Saturday's rematch between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito in New York, said, "We've been fielding proposals and talking to people."

Schaefer, who has helped promote Mayweather's past five fights, isn't buying it.

"Who is he trying to fool? The public? The fight fans? The fighters? The networks? Everybody is sick and tired of that lying snake," Schaefer said.

"Arum does not want to make the Pacquiao fight, so stop believing everything this guy says."

■ LOYAL TO UCLA -- He doesn't know who his coach will be, but Justin Combs has committed to play cornerback at UCLA.

Combs, who plays at Iona Prep in New Rochelle, N.Y., and is the son of rapper Diddy, told Scout.com he's going to be a Bruin despite the fact Rick Neuheisel, the guy who had been recruiting him, won't be coaching him. Neuheisel was fired Monday.

"My love for UCLA is so strong," Combs said in what would make for a good line in one of his father's rap songs. "I was silently committed to UCLA for a while. But now is the time (to go public)."

■ GRUDGES DON'T DIE -- You'd think after nearly 50 years, Joe Kapp and Angelo Mosca would let bygones be bygones.

But the old Canadian Football League rivals apparently can't let go of their dislike for each other.

That was evident during Friday's Grey Cup luncheon in Vancouver, where the 73-year-old Mosca took a swing at Kapp with his cane and wound up getting decked by Kapp, also 73, after Kapp tried to pin a flower on Mosca's lapel as a "peace offering."

Their feud goes back to the 1963 Grey Cup, when Kapp played quarterback for the B.C. Lions and Mosca was a defensive tackle for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Kapp claims Mosca took a cheap shot at one of his teammates, and the feud grew from that.

The fight, captured on video, has become a YouTube sensation, getting more than a half-million views.

COMPILED BY STEVE CARP
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