Bob Arum - “you’re stupid if you rematch Ruiz next” & warns Hearn “good luck” over wbc/whyte

It would be hilarious of Tom Schwarz gave Arum as many problems as Axel Shulz did.

Axel's performance against Foreman was one of my all-time favorites.

It's why the heavyweight division has always been my favorite.

 

If it wasn't Joshua Who was it Bob ??? ROFL
Give Andy Ruiz his due he kicked Joshua's ass He exposed him & embarassed him

 

Ruiz presented as WBA and IBF champion in this PBC video:

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We know that Arum has strong ties with the WBO and that he has had many champions in this federation.

 

Bob clearly adheres to the cloning theory conspiracy.

What the hell does he mean 'that was not clearly Joshua''?

That was Joshua outside his comfort zone, without roids, yes, we can agree. To suggest something went wrong which meant he wasn't a 100% Joshua, is misguided nonsense that discredits Ruiz hard fought victory.

 

In the words of David Haye

He's clearly a dickhead

 

It's funny how he was 100% joshua just until he got countered by ruiz and he was about to dance the judah dance.

I saw him pretty much 100% joshua until ruiz smashed his head.

 

Arum's comments about Ruiz and Whyte in this video are interesting.

In 1989, Michael Nunn decided to dump Bob Arum as his promoter. No one knew about it, but Nunn's fight with Iran Barkley was going to be his last with Arum. Everyone expected Nunn to stop Barkley. Instead, Iran had one of his good nights and gave Nunn a tough fight.

After HBO interviewed Nunn postfight, they asked Bob Arum about Nunn's performance, assuming Nunn's promoter would offer some explanation as to why Nunn didn't look as good as he had in previous fights. Instead, Arum went on camera and essentially said Michael Nunn looked so bad against Barkley that he (Arum) would never promote Nunn again. And Larry Merchant or whoever it was talking to him was kind of stunned, like they didn't hear him correctly. But Arum said it again.

So everyone watching thought Arum dumped Nunn. Arum didn't want to appear he wasn't in control.

Arum dumped Andy Ruiz last year. He had no idea what to do with Ruiz. Al Haymon picked him up. Six months later, Ruiz becomes a three-belt champ. So Arum isn't going to say anything nice about Ruiz. Arum could've just as easily kept Ruiz on and had a three-belt champ for Fury to face now. But Arum hasn't been good at handling heavyweights for really the last 40 years.

I remember when Arum briefly promoted Oleg Maskaev, and Arum admitted in print he didn't even know who the top heavyweights were ... because he had been focusing for decades on the lighter weights.

When the interviewer here asked him about Dillian Whyte in the clip above, and Arum had sort of a blank expression, I wouldn't be surprised if Arum didn't even know who Whyte was, because Whyte hasn't fought Fury or Wilder or Joshua recently.

His comment that "Whyte's time has passed" didn't quite make any sense.

Being a former attorney, Arum likes things to fall in a very orderly fashion. He likes to plan three moves ahead. And if things don't go as planned along the way, he has trouble thinking on his feet. He always had. When he arranged for Manny and Erik Morales to fight on a doubleheader in tuneups before their rematch, and Morales lost his tuneup, Arum just said in the ring afterward that the rematch was still on.

If Arum says Fury is fighting once more this year and then he'll fight Wilder in the spring, Fury could even lose Saturday and Arum will try to stick to that scenario. He has difficulty stepping back from a plan once he puts it in play.