Controversies Nothing made up but facts, While working as a boxing promoter, Arum had been involved in many feuds and controversies. In 1994, he was involved with This content is protected for the This content is protected boxing event. The fights were called off at the last minute when This content is protected withdrew his fighters as no purses were forthcoming. John Daly blamed Arum when he said, "I've tried desperately to convince my partners to keep the faith. I offered them as much security as I could but it was not quite good enough. It seems I was ready to take the shots, but Mr Arum wasn't." This content is protected He has been involved in a forty year feud with This content is protected , who once called him a "rat fink" in 2000 for admitting during a federal trial that he bribed the International Boxing Federation president in order to gain a more favorable rating for one of his fighters. This content is protected This content is protected He was penalized $125,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in 1995 for a bribe to get one of his fights sanctioned. In 2003, Arum complained about the judging in the September 13 bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Sugar Shane Mosley and suggested there was a vendetta against him from a member of the Nevada State Commission that led to DeLa Hoya's loss. Arum later apologized for the remark which commission chairman Luther Mack accepted. This content is protected On the first week of January 2004, This content is protected agents raided Arum's Top Rank office in Las Vegas. Arum was on vacation when his office was raided, and the FBI originally declined to comment on the raid. The media reported that the FBI was investigating allegations that Top Rank was involved in fixing the rematch between de la Hoya and This content is protected , even though De La Hoya lost and Arum was De La Hoya's promoter. The federal agency also announced that it was investigating some of This content is protected 's fights, as well as the This content is protected - This content is protected fight. The investigation closed in the summer of 2006 with no charges being filed. In 2007, Floyd Mayweather Jr., who Arum promoted from 19962006, accused him of both underpaying and undermarketing him while exploting his talents and manipulating officials. This content is protected In 2007, This content is protected president Dana White accused him of "sucking the life out of the sport (boxing) and not putting anything back in." Amongst White's criticisms were that Arum had created a weak undercard for the DeLa Hoya-Mayweather fight in 2007 saying Arum did not promote the show correctly. "He promoted that show completely the wrong way, because he worried about the money as opposed to trying to secure the future", White said. "He should have stacked that card. He should have had Shane Mosley and Bernard Hopkins and (Marco Antonio) Barrera and Winky Wright on there and used it to show that boxing is back". Arum responded by saying that MMA fighters need to examine the revenues being generated and ask why the UFC wasn't paying the more. White made these comments not realizing that Arum did not promote the De La Hoya-Mayweather bout, and was not involved in any way with the fight. His only connection was being he former promoter of both fighters. This content is protected This content is protected Arum has been accused of being a racist by Robert Lee, the former president of the This content is protected . Lee said of Arum "I pin the racism charge on him because he once told me: `We will let the Blacks and the Latinos fight in the ring and we will count the money on the outside'." This content is protected Arum also filed a lawsuit This content is protected for overstepping its boundaries in the sport by becoming a defacto promoter while trying to intentionally eliminate him as a promoter. Arum complained that HBO dropped Floyd Mayweather Jr. from his exclusive deal after he insisted his fighter have a tougher bout than the network wanted. The suit was settled of court but Arum continued to criticize HBO by saying "Instead of working with promoters, like they have done in the past, they have become promoters themselves. They make the fights just like promoters and pay fighters", Arum said. "It's their money and they can do what they want, but Don King doesn't have to go along with it and neither do I. King and I can get along without HBO or Showtime." In 2009, Arum defended This content is protected when he lost his boxing license in the US state of California on charges of illegal handwraps This content is protected , implied it was racially motivated and stated that Top Rank would not come back to the state of California until the issue was rectified This content is protected . In late-2009, Arum called This content is protected fans "skinhead white guys". Bas Rutten accused him of racism for this remark This content is protected He also stated that MMA fighters are "guys rolling around like homosexuals on the ground." This content is protected Earlier in the year, Arum described UFC President This content is protected as "nuts" and "a little too much of a loose cannon" for White's use of a gay slur in reference to an MMA reporter
Ok arums bad, but so are most promoters from that generation. Look at Don King. What point are you trying to make? :blood
frank warren, gary shaw, and sauerland the snake... how about ahmet "we be ringing" oner any top promoter is a scumbag, job requirement
Look, if Arum could somehow get away with it, he would phony up and rig every tangible, every situation, every outcome... This ****er is no sportsman. He's a greedy coward who doesn't care about winning and losing or who the better man is. Not the athletes in his stable, not his competitors. He cares about money. His money. **** that ****. From the heart. **** that piece of ****.
We all knew what king was about in the past ...but in the current state ,he's becoming another King on another level....Ask your self this question do you trust him????
Thats the point, Don King gets demonized, but this POS Arum is much worse than King, ever was, yet because he isn't black he doesn't get the same heat. Seriously this POS freezes fighters out and has been caught bribing sanctioning bodies for rankings.
a few hours ago don king posted a $1 million bond to prevent ricardo mayorga from fighting in his MMA debut which was scheduled for tonight, fight got cancelled! mayorga must be crazy thinking he can get away from the don :rofl
I dont think his colour has anything to do with it. Its well known what Arum is like! The only colour those people see is the colour green and thats the colour of money.
King rips fighters off, no doubt BUT he always tried to make the big fight happen weather or not his fighter would win or not. This POS Arum stops big fights from happening, if his fighter isn't favored to win he will stop at nothing to keep them out of the ring, do you really think King would've prevented PBF vs Cotto or Floyd Vs Pac?
Did anyone read the article Arum has been accused of being a racist by Robert Lee, the former president of the International Boxing Federation. Lee said of Arum "I pin the racism charge on him because he once told me: `We will let the Blacks and the Latinos fight in the ring and we will count the money on the outside' IF YOU BLIND ****ERS DON"T SEE HIS GAME...THEN SO BEIT ..THE GUY ONCE PROMOTED ,MAYWEATHER AND OSCAR...and THEY CAUGHT ONTO HIS BULL**** ..WHICH IN TIME MANNY WILL TOO ...BUT HE HAS SLANTED EYES AND CAN"T SEE ****.