"Lightweight titlist Miguel Vazquez and junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan are the newest fighters to sign with adviser/manager Al Haymon, whose right-hand man Sam Watson told ESPN.com." http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=dan-rafael&id=9643
What the **** is Haymon doing? ****er looks to be taking over quite a chunk of boxing. Does he now have a 100 fighters signed to him? All of them top contenders and champions. **** is getting real.
among others, Danny Garcia, Marcos Maidana, Lucas Matthysse, Adonis Stevenson, Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman, Robert Guerrero, Amir Khan, Peter Quillin, Chris Arreola, Deontay Wilder, Devon Alexander, Adrien Broner, Andre Berto, Lamont Peterson, Anthony Peterson, Gary Russell Jr., Sakio Bika, Leo Santa Cruz, John Molina, Beibut Shumenov, Chad Dawson, Jermain Taylor, Edwin Rodriguez, Errol Spence Jr., Paulie Malignaggi, Luis Collazo, Josesito Lopez, Rances Barthelemy, Marcus Browne and Dominic Wade. :!::!::!:
Some champions - a lotta ex-champs and contenders. I think the idea is that a some point, en-route to a title you're almost certain to need a Haymon fighter to progress your career. It gives him a lot of leverage over promoters and networks. I'm actually a little surprised - I think the smart money would have waited until after the GBP / Schaeffer fallout and the Duva case had resolved, but maybe they know something I don't.
But if Oscar won't work w Haymon or Mayweather and sides with Top Rank which are good w HBO and Showtime, where dies that leave all these fighters?
Well Oscar is obligated to provide his fighters x amount of fights. You cant just **** a fighters career that way, not with Haymon there. Oscar, nor any other promoter has much leverage over Haymon.
It's because most fighters simply aren't that smart. It's why you'll still see a fighter sign with Don King or why you'd see a big name fighter sign with Don 10 years ago when he was getting in trouble for screwing over all his fighters and how he would have guys sit on the shelf for a year at time until he'd see a use for them. Fighters see guys like Haymon & King as a big name who'll make things happen for them, but fail to do their homework and look at how things really work. Yeah Haymon gets you the most money, but he also takes the most from you (20%). Even if Haymon burns bridges with networks & promoters, he'll have fighter ignorance going for him which will keep him in the game.
I believe I read that Richard was signing fighters to GBP on a fight by fight basis or something, and haymond had then on contract, is what I understood, hence the big lawsuit against Richard
