Terrance Crawford Sues Bob Arum For "Revolting Racial Bias" that Hurt his Career and Other Black Fighters In Top Rank.

[TheBoxGod]

"The lawsuit filed in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Nevada on Wednesday states, “Crawford shines a spotlight on the systemic racism that runs through Top Rank, Top Rank’s complete inability to properly promote Black fighters, and Top Rank, Arum and [his son-in-law] Todd DuBoeuf’s disparate treatment of Black fighters, including Crawford.”"

https://nypost.com/2022/01/12/terence-crawford-claims-bob-arums-revolting-racial-bias-hurt-his-career/

[El_Maldito_Rey]

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[Smash]

wow so when they were posing for photos ringside all he wanted to do is punch the old prune

[SunDiego-]

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[_Rexy_]

Oh jesus christ

[Scopedog]

I dunno man. There was definitely something going on at Top Rank that meant that Crawford's face didn't fit, but to me it seems more likely that there's some other reason, like maybe he's made some off-hand comment in a meeting that Arum took offense at and started giving him the cold shoulder as a result. I'm sure the burden of proof for suing someone for racial discrimination is already pretty high, and doubly so when you're taking on someone with good lawyers and connections like Top Rank. I'm sure there's a lot going on here that none of us are privy to that could be really illuminating, but what I think he's doing here is ill advised to put it lightly, and I say that as someone who's a fan of Crawford and was pretty disgusted when Arum started openly ****-talking him not that long ago when he was still under contract.

[TheBoxGod]

I dunno man. There was definitely something going on at Top Rank that meant that Crawford's face didn't fit, but to me it seems more likely that there's some other reason, like maybe he's made some off-hand comment in a meeting that Arum took offense at and started giving him the cold shoulder as a result. I'm sure the burden of proof for suing someone for racial discrimination is already pretty high, and doubly so when you're taking on someone with good lawyers and connections like Top Rank. I'm sure there's a lot going on here that none of us are privy to that could be really illuminating, but what I think he's doing here is ill advised to put it lightly, and I say that as someone who's a fan of Crawford and was pretty disgusted when Arum started openly ****-talking him not that long ago when he was still under contract.

I think crawford and arum was just a bad pair. For one Crawford hateed and never wanted to do any press, he always did the bare minimum and pair that with Bob Arum who is a lazy promoter it was only going to end this way imo.

[QballLobo]

While I agree Arum didn’t do a great job promoting him this seems like a dumb waste of time.

Bud knew that Arum has issues working with other promoters and that the welterweight stable at Top Rank was sub par at best.

Sounds like Bud is looking for excuses now that he’s a free agent and the big offers he was expecting don’t seem to be materializing.

[TernceBudCharlo]

Hope this opens peoples eyes to people who say that systemic racism isn't real and who take advantage of it to put Bud down and hype up other fighters.

[El_Mero]

I dont see this lawsuit going anywhere tbh. You have to prove prejudice/racism and unfair treatment of black fighters and Bud. Then again, the nfl found emails from gruden and he was fired so there is a small possibility