This guy is currently the most repulsive promoter in the sport. - Convinced his cash cow to vacate his WBC title because he wanted to "marinate" the fight against GGG. Obviously the real reason is that Golovkin was prime and dangerous back then, so they didn't take the fight, waited until he showed his age. Until that Alvarez took on Liam Smith, who was probably the worst paper champion in boxing and a drained to a zombie version of Chavez Jr. Both were total mismatches, just like the Khan fight prior to them. - Blocked the Lomachenko - Linares fight because it would have clashed with the REPLAY of GGG - Canelo 2. April 28 wasn't good for him either for some reason. Thanks a lot, ***hole. - Paid down judges like Adalaide Byrd, CJ Ross, Levi Martinez. Thanks to them, Canelo has a gift win over Lara and a gift draft against Golovkin, and a joke majority decision loss to Mayweather. Oscar was a respectable fighter, but now he hurts the sport.
Agree with every word of this. Being a former fighter, I thought naively, he would be more on the level than most promoters
I had high hopes for him as a promoter. I didn't care for the ****** too much as an active fighter, that wasn't hidden. But when he said he wanted to change the sport for the better, to make it better for fighters, for a sec I believed him. But in reality, he's no different than any other promoter.
Never trusted him when he was a fighter....yes he was great and achieved great things but he's always been a snake and his smile and demeanour is so false it's unbelievable.
That instant smile that he flashes then drops in an instant, followed by snake eyes scanning around as soon as its dropped says everything
As King and Arum were before him Given than Oscar was such a brave take on all comers in the ring, does it not strike you as weird that he would suddenly become the polar opposite of what he wanted to bring to fans? Given what he was prepared to do in the ring, and he doesnt need the money, there's probably far more to it than meets the eye
Oscar is also a pervasive bigot who overwhelmingly/only promotes Latino boxers which at the very least is hiring discrimination. Also during his fighting career he made several antisemtic comment about Bob Arum.
Maybe he knows his fighters will take Ls in tough fights. Let’s not forget that Oscars tremendous popularity allowed him to take Ls more so than in the current environment where an L is considered a much bigger setback
He's settled out of court at least three times on **** allegations. At least one was quite the under age minor.
No, gotta disagree. Oscar is POS, but that's not discrimination. He doesn't hire fighters, he promotes them.
Not sure how anyone can look into the cesspool that is boxing promoters and pick out oscar as if he is somehow an exception to the usual. If you really think Oscar is worse than Bob Arum or Al Haymon (I know Al isnt a promoter, but he is a shot caller, and your criticism is being leveled at oscar the shotcaller, so the comparison is warranted) than you are living in denial.
There was a poster on here years ago who hated Oscars guys and constantly bashed him the story goes; he had a 12 year old daughter who asked oscar for an autograph and the P.O.S supposedly said no to her request because she was not old enough for him to "F word" her.
I think a part of the problem with Oscar is that he had the ability to actually make a change, for the better. He had a ton of influence and power, had a network basically spooning him and his promotions. But instead, he's just become another two-faced promoter.