Oscar as a promoter is a cancer to boxing

What are all these examples of Oscar babying his people to an unreasonable degree? Canelo dropping his belt instead of just fighting G.... fair enough. One example.

Lemieux just fought an obviously bad matchup against Saunders. That was not an advisable fight and yet they made it anyways. They could have easily done another showcase fight for Lemieux or at least a more winnable legit matchup and waited to match him up with Canelo while the Lemieux stock was still relatively high. Instead they made a very good middleweight elimination bout.

Canelo has fought Lara, Trout, Mayweather, Cotto and Golovkin in the last 10 fights. I have been very critical of Canelos opposition when he fought Khan, Smith and Chavez back to back to back. But lets not pretend he doesnt have one of the best resumes in boxing today with more than one fight taken that fans didnt think he would actually take at the time.

Matthysse fighting Ruslan was supposed to be a savage, take from both guys's careers fight, that oscar made because it was a FOTY type fight. Luckily for Lucas his skills made it onesided. But they could have made other easier fights for Lucas at the time. Postol was generally an evenish fight.... Matthysse being a slight favorite but not much against a guy who had very little name recognition at the time. That was a needlessly tough matchup for one of Oscars few remaining stars.



The guy only has had 3 (4 if you count Linares) big names in the last few years and 2 of the 3 have had their stock significantly dropped due to tough matchmaking.... but he somehow is babying his stable?


And you guys think hes somehow worse than Bob Arum or Al Haymon?

 

Matthysse vs Garcia, Ruslan, Postol
Canelo vs Cotto, Golovkin, Mayweather, Lara, Trout
Lemieux vs Golovkin, Saunders, Stevens,


Those are his three biggest names.... you dont consider those good fights?

 

Out of curiosity, besides Canelo vacating his belt, what specifically would you have wanted oscar to do drastically differently in the last 4 or 5 years. Im genuinely curious. Obviously there are things he could have done better I am just curious as to what you specifically have in mind that you think he completely failed at, outside of Canelo vs Golovkin.

I think hes walked the line between owing it to his fighters to do well by them, and also giving the fans exciting fights, and also meaningful legacy fights. He certainly could have matched his biggest names in a much more advisable and less dangerous way (which resulted in him pretty much losing 2 of his 3 biggest names). So just wondering what specific moves to you take issue with outside of the Golovkin fiasco.

 

He's not quite a cancer, but a benign tumor that you can live with, Haymon is an incurable malignancy, Arum is one you'll go life and death with, and even if you're cured, there's a 70% chance it'll come back.