I don't know if someone else posted this story earlier. It's from the New York Post.
Just thought about it when read about Mayweather buying a Rolls Royce Phantom. Then I remember the original owner of Wal-Mart, who was hundreds of times richer than Mayweather, who always stuck with his old Ford F-150.
Here's the link for the Iran Barkley Story (with a pic)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/ex_champ_is_down_for_the_count_OAFD54Pffz6lbxUKTXNavM
http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/11/21/news/photos_stories/iran_barkley2--300x300.jpg
The champ answers his flip phone and can't figure out where he is. All he knows is it's a motel room.
"Don't hang up, don't hang up," he tells the caller. They're supposed to meet.
He bolts from the room's stale air and across the hallway, anxiously asking other guests, "Where's this hotel at?"
Now frantic, he plods down a set of stairs, finds the reception clerk and gets the address. It's the Howard Johnson Express Inn on Boston Road in The Bronx.
He has nowhere else to go.
Iran "The Blade" Barkley -- once a legendary ring warrior with a half-dozen championship belts -- is homeless.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/ex_champ_is_down_for_the_count_OAFD54Pffz6lbxUKTXNavM#ixzz16O6WZT1K
lol wtf are you guys blaming arum? he's a corrupt businessman alright but if you're not stupid he can't fool you. whaterver arum did to barkley, don king did worse to tyson.
Please explain the bold.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/boxing-bell-tolls-for-ringking-lee-and-the-whorehouse-of-pugilism-1129583.html
There is no direct quote from Arum. He said it to someone in private (obviously), and that dude told others about it.
Wow...
Now i understand why Mayweather left Arum and won't do business with Arum's fighters.
Pac needs to get out quick if he wants to make serious money PROMOTE YOURSELF.
I'm not blaming Arum but that quote is interesting, don't you think?
you can call him a white supremacist and that's fine. arum was born in that era when blacks are slaves to whites so he probably still believes that. but if somebody has to be blamed for somebody's misfortunes, it should be the person himself.
lol wtf are you guys blaming arum? he's a corrupt businessman alright but if you're not stupid he can't fool you. whaterver arum did to barkley, don king did worse to tyson.
I'm not blaming Arum but that quote is interesting, don't you think?
lol wtf are you guys blaming arum? he's a corrupt businessman alright but if you're not stupid he can't fool you. whaterver arum did to barkley, don king did worse to tyson.
If only Arum and Co would have not low balled him and given him that extra 5-10% Iran would not be in this situation...yeah right.
Can someone find the tape where Iran was asked by Jim Lampley (I think it was Lamps) what he was going to do when he retired and Barkley thought about it and then said "Im gonna rob your house" I dont think there was ever much hope for Barkley post boxing-very sad but not unexpected.
Needs to be some sort of retirement plan for boxers who have given the sport their life.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/boxing-bell-tolls-for-ringking-lee-and-the-whorehouse-of-pugilism-1129583.html
There is no direct quote from Arum. He said it to someone in private (obviously), and that dude told others about it.
Thanks a lot. That's enough for me.
Green K given.
"Let the blacks and latinos fight each other inside the rind.....and we will count the money outside" - BOB ARUM
ARUM IS SCUM.
Do you have a link or reference to that quote? Would love to have it. Thanks anyways.
"He revisits his career's unraveling with resentment, saying people like promoter Bob Arum low-balled him." Ohh Arum..
"Let the blacks and latinos fight each other inside the rind.....and we will count the money outside" - BOB ARUM
ARUM IS SCUM.
Whys is that so many black boxers go bankrupt.
Joe Louis
Riddick Bowe
Mike Tyson
Hasim Rahman
John Conteh
Chris Eubank
Sam Langford
Leon Spinks
Education ?? hangers on/ crew??
too many weird looking faces on the money so they just throw the sh!t way :dunno:...if you look deeper you'll find out that its NOT just black fighters....respond with caution :cool2:
Thats shocking, its a shame there is always going to be so many middle men in the business of boxing that seem to **** fighters out of thier fair share of the money.
Whys is that so many black boxers go bankrupt.
Joe Louis
Riddick Bowe
Mike Tyson
Hasim Rahman
John Conteh
Chris Eubank
Sam Langford
Leon Spinks
Education ?? hangers on/ crew??
15y ago
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