Will they make up their damn mind. Manny Pacquiao hopes to make

Will they make up their damn mind.

Manny Pacquiao hopes to make it back-to-back bouts at Cowboys Stadium. And if promoter Bob Arum is correct, the crowd for a Nov. 13 fight against Antonio Margarito would dwarf the 50,994 that watched Pacquiao easily handle Joshua Clottey in March.

“I think we could look to do 70,000 people,” Arum said from Los Angeles on Monday. “Clottey had no fan base. Margarito has a huge fan base of Mexican-Americans.”

Margarito was born in California but lives in Tijuana.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he is looking forward to opening his stadium’s upper deck for the fight. It was closed for the March 13 fight.

Margarito has fought once since. He won a unanimous decision over Roberto Garcia in Mexico. Margarito has a California licensing hearing scheduled for Aug. 18.

Arum said the fight would be televised on pay-per-view by HBO, which will promote Pacquiao-Margarito with its popular prefight 24/7 series that follows the boxers in the weeks leading up to the bout. Arum said on the Sunday before the fight CBS’ 60 Minutes is planning to profile Pacquiao, who has won titles in seven weight classes and was elected to the Filipino House of Representatives in May.

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