Eight-division king Manny Pacquiao will fight on May 7 in an HBO pay-per-view televised bout from Las Vegas, the fighter’s adviser Michael Koncz told AOL’s FanHouse on Tuesday. “I’m assuming that it will be at the MGM,” Koncz said, “but all that we’ve talked about is having it in Las Vegas. Which casino, I don’t know.” The 32-year-old Pacquiao is 9-1-1, with seven knockouts overall in Las Vegas, and 4-1-1 at MGM.

Aside from six-time champion Floyd Mayweather, with whom negotiations for a fight with Pacquiao have twice reached an impasse, Top Rank Promotions CEO Bob Arum has indicated that his top choices for Pacquiao’s opponents are five-time champ “Sugar” Shane Mosley, WBO and WBA lightweight king Juan Manuel Marquez and WBC welterweight belt-holder Andre Berto. Arum left for the Philippines on Sunday to present the three proposals to Pacquia and Koncz for consideration, with a decision expected to be made no later than Dec. 19. The 39-year-old Mosley told FanHouse on Monday that he believed that he would fight next against Pacquiao, and both Arum and Koncz have indicated that they would suggest Mosley to Pacquiao as his most beneficial adversary, economically.

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