Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn to kick off Top Rank/ESPN series

Top Rank Inc. has been gobbling up prospects over the past year even as HBO’s limited slate of dates has grown thinner and thinner. Bob Arum had a vision, and now it’s coming to fruition.
The Las Vegas-based promotional outfit has been engaged in talks for months on a new deal that will see Top Rank’s best and brightest stars — boxers such as Manny Pacquiao, Terence Crawford and Vasyl Lomachenko — featured on ESPN and perhaps ABC (Disney owns both networks), multipl