Arum is a piece of trash.

atschgod you are ignorant

 

Couldn't agree more with the OP's post, Arum you ****.

 

what he said about tim bradley and williams was ****ing embarassing, i cant wait till him and king die

****ing leeches

 

pretty much, it's sad how top incest matches their fighters up in what i legimately think are somewhat fixed fights. GBP refuses to match their fighters with any legitimate threats, in house or out. Don King Productions actually has been setting up more challenging fights for their boxers recently, which is to think about

 

He wants to keep things in house. All he is concerned about is how much he can make. Bradley and Williams he probably feels he can brush off with no real concern, Mayweather he knows he can't and so has strung this whole thing along and tried to manipulate it to look like he does want the fight for Pac.

I am convinced that both Pacquiao and Mayweather want to fight each other. Pacquiao needs a new promotor. I would love to see him and Mayweather self-promote with help from Golden Boy and for that scumbag to not get one single dime.

 

I read a cox's corner article and the dude raised a great point about how modern prospect boxers are basically commercial products instead of athletes. and that is 100% true. they're matched up easily so they can maintain undefeated records(even flawed fighters like ****ing andre berto ) until they get a strap. from there they take 9 months to make 1-3 title defenses against cans. Then they get a big money fight. If they lose 2-3 times their career is done and everyone calls them shot before they've even had 50 ****ing fights. no wonder nobody takes big fights, a loss is so damaging to a fighter these days. look at what khan for example has had to do to(and will have to do) to resuscitate his reputation after prescott. It's ridiculous. All the best fighters in history take challenges and sometimes they lose. Some dude out there has a style that can beat yours. some dude shows up with better physical/mental preparation. Losses are acceptable in every sport today except boxing.

 

the system needs complete restructuring, in regard to promoters and sanctioning orgs. I get the feeling a lot of the orgs are actually in serious financial trouble, which would be nice because they might all fail except for one and there would be some sense in determining champions.

The PPV model needs to disappear. It keeps the public from seeing any good boxing and it slows down talented fighters from matching up. I wish there was something the fans could do but it seems boxing in america is nearly doomed to failure. The saddest thing is that there are a lot of upcoming prospects that i've been watching on ShoBox, Solo Boxeo and FNF. And honestly a lot of belt holders could be pretty great fighters but with boxing in molasses the probability of their talent being showcased is slim

 

Arum's full of ****.

 

you're actually on point today. 2 posts I've agreed 100 percent with and a pig just flew by window

 

All promoters, @ one or more points in their careers, lie. It just so happens that Arum can manipulate and lie better than the others IMO.