What's your excuse for the Calzaghe affair? You know that to say Burns owes FW simplifies it far too much. He was found to have breached his contract as sufficient time hadn't elasped between him not being paid and him leaving. The contract he had with FW was awful and made very little in the way of provisions for late payment. The judge fully acknowledged Burns was let down, but under the letter of the law he'd breached his contract. Major difference between Burns wanting to leave because he wasn't being paid and what Fisheyes was doing to him.
I'm not sure, but didn't they work that out eventually? Anyway, is it really fair to focus everything on a couple of cases, and ignore the hundreds of paychecks that he has provided to British fighters? Not really. He owed him money. That's a straightforward way to put it. They used a fake signature and they didn't properly end the contract. So his team screwed it up. But anyway, that stuff is distinct from the money being owed. If you delay payment because your business is struggling, obviously it's not a good thing and it's not nice to be messed about, but it's not the same thing as "stealing" either. Look if you just give up and go bankrupt then no one gets their money. If you can delay payments and try to keep your business afloat, then it's understandable and it doesn't make you the devil to be doing it. It's not a good thing in a way; but it's not the height of evil either.
It was settled due to Fisheyes losing a court case. Of course it is fair. He has a documented history of poorly managing his businesses and being incapable of paying fighters on time. Plenty of others have mentioned bounced cheques etc. The BBOBC have terms in which it is stated a boxer should be paid within a certain window depending on the amount. Why is it everyone else can do it but Fisheyes? He has a history of liqudating companies owing millions. It is unacceptable he still holds a license.
Loathe that I am to agree with the person that you arguing with, he has a point when it comes to FW. He does steal from the fighters. He pulls dividends out of these companies off of the back of the fighters work then claims the company has no money to pay the fighters. For all this talk of this company going bust or that company going under, Frank always seems to be doing alright out it. You don't hear about him getting late payments or struggling to provide for himself. There's a reason he's split with nearly every fighter he's ever had under his charge acrimoniously. He's a nasty little crook. So nasty in fact that when someone shot him - almost certainly over money - nobody cared. Not the public, not his fighters and certainly not a jury.