Is GBP Helping or Hurting the Sport?

[TheSurgeonMDMPH]

My take from a previous post.

What makes GBP the premier boxing promotional co. in the sport. They were suppose to revolutionize the fight game. Looks like they are trying to manipulate the game. Look at what they are doing to the sport now. They freeze Nate Campbell out! Only their own stable gets shots at the "Ring" championships. They block the unification of the WW title. The only benefit to the sport that they have done is...............oh, exploit the fan base of De la Hoya. HBO will take a hit when GBP's greed takes 100% creative control over the co. This combined with $6/gal gas will see HBO subscriptions plummet like the NASDAQ. Don't sell out Roy! Go Indie if you have 2.

[Darkstar]

Their nothing different than the other promoters. Their not out to save boxing, thier out to make money. I even seen in a interview, thier going in to soccer and MMA. Why? Because thier fast growing sports with money to be made.

[IMDAZED]

They're helping themselves and hurting boxing...does that answer your question?

And to the person who said they're no worse than other promoters...WRONG. As unethical as Arum & King have been, they respected certain things. You don't go BUY the media the way GBP did. Wine us, dine us, pay a few here and there...but buy the RING MAGAZINE??????????? No effin way.

[Scott9945]

They're helping themselves and hurting boxing...does that answer your question?

And to the person who said they're no worse than other promoters...WRONG. As unethical as Arum & King have been, they respected certain things. You don't go BUY the media the way GBP did. Wine us, dine us, pay a few here and there...but buy the RING MAGAZINE??????????? No effin way.

Good comments!

[Silencers]

They're hurting more than helping it with the HBO deal and buying Ring magazine etc.

[warp1432]

They are helping it. They have helped bringing us good fights. He's doing a better job then King, but not sure about Arum.

Also with the right promotion, Oscar could really make The Ring belt the true belt, but overall it would have been better if they left the ring unbought (even if they have done nothing so far to screw it up)

[IMDAZED]

They are helping it. They have helped bringing us good fights. He's doing a better job then King, but not sure about Arum.

Also with the right promotion, Oscar could really make The Ring belt the true belt, but overall it would have been better if they left the ring unbought (even if they have done nothing so far to screw it up)

It's not Oscar's job to make the Ring belt true...he promotes FIGHTERS for a living.

Don't see a conflict of interest? Or should we just believe him because he's a good guy?

And what's all this talk about him doing a better job than King? Is that why, save for DLH-Forbes, every freaking fight I see is on PPV?

Please...the only thing you can say about GBP is that they don't cheat their fighters. They cheat us instead.

[FLYBOY]

positives: good promotion of the fight, they sell tickets no doubt. they know how to market the fight. good promotion overall.

negatives: bad fights. mismatched fights. they need to make some dangerous fights like david haye vs. klitschko hopefully... also miguel cotto vs. mayweather.

[warp1432]

It's not Oscar's job to make the Ring belt true...he promotes FIGHTERS for a living.

Don't see a conflict of interest? Or should we just believe him because he's a good guy?

And what's all this talk about him doing a better job than King? Is that why, save for DLH-Forbes, every freaking fight I see is on PPV?

Please...the only thing you can say about GBP is that they don't cheat their fighters. They cheat us instead.

Schaffer said it doesn't make sense to ruin it with favoring with golden boy fighters because they could ruin their investment. That's pretty truthful. I can see a conflict of interest, but they don't do it yet. The **** they pulled with Marquez-Campbell, they could have done with any belt.

Also he does a better job then King. Hopkins-Calzaghe wasn't PPV. Vasquez-Marquez was surprisingly not PPV either. Even if it was showtime, Vasquez is a golden boy fighter. King brings us pretty much heavyweights with the exception of Nate campbell nowadays. Golden Boy is bringing us Juan Diaz-Michael Katsidis which is FOTY potential. Casamayor-Marquez is a good fight too.

So they make Shane Mosley on PPV, is that any worse then putting JCC jr on PPV? Or Manny Pacquiao-David Diaz since that'll be the full 50 and JCC jr is only 35.

negatives: bad fights. mismatched fights. they need to make some dangerous fights like david haye vs. klitschko hopefully... also miguel cotto vs. mayweather.

I'd say Marquez-Casamayor is pretty much an all stakes fight with everything on the line for both of them. Marquez you have him needing to win to get Pacquiao again and a sure shot at the HOF. Casamayor same thing, but he also needs to prove that once again, Jose Santa Cruz was a ring rust fluke performance and he can deal with good boxers.