Because they are scared that any negative pieces on arum will mean
1. He doesnt give them interviewsin the future, or limited access to toprank staff etc.
2. They lose the favours, benefits or "gifts" that arum and toprank give them for favourable stories or exposure.
Just like promoters pay judges or offer inducements and favours like hotel and travel upgrades, dont tell me they dont do the same with certain media people.
The shills are easy to identify.
Pirog v golovkin is a super dooper fight. Im assuming golovkin starts fav but im all over pirog - i think he is a special fighter.
Geale invariably goes 12 rds with his opponents so getting the nod over a german darling like sturm is probably wishful thinking. He got the nod over sylvester in germany but to get one against sturm would be spoiling him lol.
I dunno..but something doesnt seem right. Bit fishy. The ol back injury...might be just me but im smelling some bs here. They still didnt have a venue for the fight too. The whole thing just sounded " wrong"??
It was the fight i was looking fwd to the most. I was thinking pirog could win quite easy, as long as he didnt get caught with a bomb.
I didnt watch all 22 mins but most of it.
Was very tame sparring, he wasnt showing much. And both were pulling their punches. Bit of publicity and something for his fans. But mostly, that session was rubbish.
both orgs have much better testing than boxing commissions etc. but at the end of the day...neither of them have any jurisdiction to stop a fight going ahead due to a doping infraction.
boxing isnt under the wada code, therefore usada are basically at the mercy of state commissions presiding over the promotion. refer: morales in NY. vada have same probs.
a novel that said absolutely nothing.
if you still sit on the fence after seeing a 39 yr old marquez morph in to the hulk with 3.5 months training then you will never get it.
btw pac juiced his ass off too.
both guilty as OJ.
I think its rahimov, not rakhimov. I started a thread on him a while ago on another site, labelling this guy as a 135 dark horse. If anyones interested:
http://forums.maxboxing.com/index.php?showtopic=31237&hl=rahimov&fromsearch=1
If Julio was that hungry to get back in to title contention, why did his team knock back an offer to fight power punching Ranee Ganoy in an IBF #2 elimination fight?
Just on commissions would have caught it because it was urine...
Lol.
They admitted they wouldnt have caught berto. And considering commissions are always crying poor due to lack of funding (and are just an extension of the promoter anyway)....you think they are sending all urine samples to the lab for testing? Hahaha.
Id guarantee the majority of the samples are flushed down the toilet 5 mins after they are collected.
Oh please Bob, spare us the bullcrap. It's like when someone pops positive for a banned substance, Victor Conte has to put his two cents into it like he's the damn authority on all things PEDs. No one wants to hear that crap, specially from HIM.
It's ironic that Arum would also nonchalantly joke around about rigging the Ortiz fight to secure the Sept 15 date. There's a mental complex about people joking about something that deep down they know is true, to make it seem and convince others (including themselves) that it is indeed the opposite.
I don't ever wish ill will upon anyone, but Bob is making it harder and
harder for me to hold back. I know he just lost his eldest son 2 years ago from a freak accident, but I hope karma catches up to him once and for all.
Spot on.
Bob actually let the cat out of the bag when he recently told s.kim:
"now ive been to places where wink wink stuff has gone on... i need to make sure thats not the case here" ( bradley/pac result)
Really bob? Tell us more.
Corrupt grubs. Its a sewer pit of a sport, corruption at all levels. Govt involvement cant make it worse....worth a shot if they do it properly.
You have guessed wrong. The winner will be ranked #2 by the IBF. Their isn't alot of "available contenders" inside the top 15 at the moment. So Ganoy and Narh get to do the eliminator.
Ganoy by ko in a barnburner. Narh is getting his chin tapped.
Has anyone ever seen a pic of bam bam training without a sweat jacket on??
Abril isnt the most blessed fighter to come out of cuba but he has a few things that work for him. He measures with his left hand and likes to fire a long right hand to the head and body. He moves ok, and is bit of a spoiler in close. Whether he can handle rios is another thing...but if rios takes him lightly, he might be in a spot of bother. Abril isnt hopeless.
Lol, so if trout looked awesome, he gets the canelo fight???
Umm no. That means they by pass trout and pick someone easier. Canelo has been carefully matched...tonights fight not looking spectacular probably did trout a favor and got him closer to getting canelo next.
I cut trout some slack here...his lead in fight was against c-grade slugger frank loporto. Hardly a good prep to get you peaking on showtime. And delvin didnt bring the fight like most expected. The fact delvin shut down and fought cautious is a credit to trouts trickiness and skill. It s just one of those tactical battles...some fights go like that and "looking good for the fans" has to take a back seat to winning the best way you can.