How did Al Haymon become so powerful?

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He used to put on mega R&B and Rap concerts back in the day, probably still does. The Budweiser Superfest was his show. He's been putting it down for years I still remember those commercials as a kid on the radio and at the end they always said "an Al Haymon production", smart business man.

 

For the most part, if you want to fight on Showtime, you have to sign with Haymon. On their two December cards, 11 of the 16 fighters were managed by Haymon. Amir Khan looks to be in the same situation. In order to get a Mayweather fight, he'll have to sign a contract. The coup d'grace was his purchasing of Paulie Malignaggi in the broadcast booth.

I'll remember his tenure at HBO for one fighter, Andre Berto. Berto couldn't sell tickets at a venue. There wasn't that much fan interest in his career. But Haymon was able to get him a $1 million payday to fight a journeyman named Freddy Hernandez.

HBO eventually realized it couldn't match Showtime's offer to Floyd. It's a good thing, since I doubt Showtime made that much with the Alvarez fight. Floyd already gets the $30 million guarantee, in addition to PPV upsides. They probably only broke even b/c of the $10-15 million loss with the Guerrero fight.

Overall, I think Haymon is probably very good to his fighters. I don't hear a lot of guys claiming they are aggrieved by Haymon. While he gets his clients a bigger piece of the pie, the overall pie is shrinking and will only get smaller in the long run. He's the embodiment of what we've known for a long time in that boxing is truly a business and pretty much the only thing anyone in the sport cares about is enriching themselves. While it may be true in most all sports, when you highlight the ideal that money is the only object then fans get turned off.

 

he is still doing now, the vocalist with gloves on.:good

 

He gets his goofy nephews to ring walk and grin at the cameras nodding their heads... Thats the secret to his success... Damn hypnotises mofos before they throw a punch

 

I wanna thank Al Haymon for this forum

 

He had a big time connection at HBO with someone high on the food chain.

That is the shortest, simplest answer...

 

no wonder his events are staged and full with controversy :roll:

 

This is evident to me by seeing how much Leo Santa Cruz kisses his butt every chance he gets. He literally goes off talking about how great Haymon is :-(.

Does he offer them some kind of incentive for shout outs?

 

He appears to be just another crook. He and others will make boxing WWE.............

 

1. Illuminati.
2. Idk if this is a real thing, but to me it seems like once a fighter signs with Haymon they begin to speak in...nothingness, and they thank Al Haymon all the time. I think there is a contractual stipulation that says you must thank Al Haymon publicly x amount of times per month, and you are not under any circumstances to say anything that isn't prepared for you in advance.
3. If he keeps signing all the guys who are remotely marketable and keeps having them fight each other, I, for one, welcome our new Reptilian overlord.

 

I really believe that boxing will become the new WWE. The promoters know that they can fool the fans, but if they can't they do not care. Boxing needs a federal boxing commission................promoters are getting away with everything...............

 

The recent outcomes of fights suggests promoters like cool Al are in fact lacking in sportsmanship.

 

Lol:yep

 

Is haymon corrupt? no, he is just to successful for certain arum cronies in the white dominated media for there liking!!

 

Al haymon ****ed sam watsons wife who gave birth to the goofball "watson" twins