Let me start by saying, all promoters have an (obvious) agenda and are probably crooked in one way or another. But I've never seen such out-and-out conniving behaviour from a professional promoter than I have from Bob Arum. And yes that includes King. The man has FAR FAR too much say in who his fighters fight. Promoters are supposed to be the middle-men when it comes to arranging fights, and take care of all the promotional logistics that a fighter isn't equipped to do. But Bob Arum doesn't even try to hide the fact that he and he alone decides who will fight who under his banner, and that he won't tolerate out-of-house match-ups. The fighters work for him, not the other way round. It's absolutely ridiculous. To Top it off after Rigo turns in a masterclass performance against Donaire, he has a disgraceful attitude about the whole thing, and basically again, doesn't even attempt to hide that Rigo is ****ed as far as his career goes. Talking about how Rigo 'ran' and made it a boring fight. Does this man have an ounce of professionalism? What in the name of **** is he playing at? Is there ANYONE here who still defends him? ****ing cancerous old schmuck.
I think we all know Bob Arum wields way too much power over his boxers - more so than GBP clearly. This is all common knowledge, it is what it is - it's not too dissimilar with GBP, and with Showtime/HBO - boxing is at a worse point ever in terms of giving fans the fights we want It's quite disgusting that there isn't a global boxing regulator in the same way there is for other sports
TS made the perfect example by mentioning Don King... This Fri Don's most prized prospect took an "L" (Santana) & after the fight dude was all smiles & raising his other fighters arm in victory. Did he kick a water cooler & slap a ***** backstage?? Maybe... But dude was a professional when it counts.
Over the last 5 months I have preferred the Top Rank product but Golden Boy is the lesser of two evils, Bob Arum has turned down Mayweather-DLH and Mayweather-Pacquiao, he has cost himself tens of millions of dollars to be an ass, GB would work with GB tomorrow, cause they like money.
First I apologize for the length of the post, but believe me it is worth reading. I would post this in a new thread but for an unknown reason I am not allowed to post new threads even though I did nothing wrong and and I can't get the moderator to respond to my inquires. This post is about blatant plagiarism by the writer from Boixngnews24 Allen Fox. I wrote a comment on 1 of his articles entitled, "Broner vs Malignaggi to be televised by Showtime on June 22nd", writen by Allen Fox on 03/18/13. I wrote a comment (which you can scroll down and read yourself),and then on the same day Allen Fox wrote another article entitled, "De La Hoya: Doesn't HBO know Golden Boy is stacked with Talent" Allen Fox lifted the entire premise, theme, summary, from my comment I made under the Broner vs Malignaggi article. He even stole from my comment, word for word. I wrote the editor, but never received a response. Then I noticed my comment was erased from the Broner vs Mal. article and Allen Fox's article was not changed at all. Instead of an apology and having Fox rewrite his article, or give me credit the editor and Allen Fox instead decided to just erase my comment. Here is the email I sent them: joseph pacheco <josjbXXX@XXXXXXX> Mar 19 to editor This is in regards to 2 articles posted on 03/18/13. The 1st titled Broner vs. Malignaggi to be televised by Showtime on June 22nd and the 2nd titled De La Hoya: Doesn't HBO know Golden Boy is stacked with Talent? both written by Allen Fox. I posted a comment on the 1st article. The post/comment is listed below for you to read along with the questioned section of article 2 written by Allen Fox. My issue is the 2nd article has parts in it that seem extremely similar to the post/comment I made in the 1st article. I have highlighted the section in my post/comment below. It seems like Allen Fox used my post/comment almost word for word in his article. Also, the whole summary and idea of the 2nd article seems lifted from my comment. It seems as if Allen Fox used the premise, idea, and substance of my post/comment for his article. Examples are rife such as the mention of Bob Arum's age and firing Ken Hershman just to name a few. Now, he wrote each article on the same day and I believe he read my comment and plagiarised it and passed it own as his own work. I am saying he did this intentionally, and I am angry about it. If your writer, Allen Fox, wants to use my words and ideas for his articles I am a bit flattered by it, but I do want him to credit me for it by using the standard journalistic practices, such as a footnote or quote me in his article. For example," a comment listed by one of our readers, Joe......... I do hope you read the 2nd article and compare it to my post/comment and make your own judgement on the issue. Since you are the editor I am sure you will be fair and I am also sure you do not tolerate plagiarism even if it is done unintentionally. I do hope you respond to my email as quickly as possible. Thank You, Joe Pacheco Questioned section of Article written by Allen Fox: De La Hoya: doesn't HBO Know Golden Boy is stacked with talent? "What HBO seems to be forgetting is that Top Rank, which will be supplying most of their talent for their fights, is headed by an 81-year-old CEO in Bob Arum. Hes not going to be around for too much longer, and who knows how well the promotional company will do once Arum is gone." joe (my comment posted on boxingnews24) What a stupid and horrible move by HBO. Golden Boy has the deepest roster of fighters and to just abandon making fights with them is just plain stupid. Instead HBO wants a relationship with Top Rank who not only has a much thinner roster of fighters, but it has an aging 81 yr old man at its head who will not be in the business much longer. This a bad strategic business decision by HBO which comes down to the question of why on earth did HBO hire Ken Hershman in the first place? Ever since Ken Hershman was hired HBO, boxing has gone downhill. He needs to be replaced immediately. I never understood why they hired him in the 1st place. His record at Showtime was one of limited growth and continued status quo. He did not bring any great innovation or changes to Showtime during his tenure there and Showtime Boxing never grew, its just remained there in a sort of suspended animation. When he was at Showtime, Showtime boxing never could compete with HBO Boxing, and they constantly put on poor fights. But once Hershman left and Showtime hired a new Sports director they have leaped past HBO putting on good fights all year long. Their viewership has gone up and now they have Mayweather. This compared to HBO, since Hershmans hiring, poor match-ups, bad deals, losing Mayweather, and now refusing to deal with Golden Boy fighters. Hershman has now backed HBO into a corner. Losing Mayweather and now Broner, whom they had a lot invested in already. I see them courting Andre Ward, but Ward does not bring in big numbers and is not a pay per view attraction, and not too exciting to watch either. All the great fights at 168 have already been done by Ward and done on Showtime. Hershman has been a complete and absolute failure who needs to be fired before he ruins HBO Boxing for the next decade
What he said about Rigo is true though. Cuban fighters have regularly struggled to draw crowds and TV viewers. And Rigo's style will not appeal to casual fans. The booing throughout his bout shows that the fans found it a boring fight. He'll try to generate as much income as he can promoting Rigo. So far he's done a good job, getting Rigo a world title shot in his seventh fight and last weekend the opportunity of a career high payday against one of the best fighters in the sport. I don't think Arum should be crucified for speaking the truth. At least he wasn't lying this time.
With regards to Rigo he got him a big fight against Donaire, and to be blunt he's in the PR business and he's simply stating that Rigo isn't good business - he's not saying anything we're not aware of. There are many things to hate Arum for, but the Rigo thing isn't particularly one of them. He's simply stating facts, his style is hard to promote and if anything, that comment gets Rigo's name in the press so don't be too quick to dismiss the guy's PR skills...
Rigo isn't Abril he ****ed Donaire up and if Donaire had got aggressive he would have knocked him out, Rigo is marketable, you know the fight we want Garcia-Rigo and Gamboa-Rigo Arum is dumb if he doesn't see that money.
i love bob arum and don king. how can you not like them? stole the way to the top. im gonna start promoting local cards in the bronx, work my way to manhattan , brooklyn an queens an eventually the worldwide scene. study their moves dont hate them
