Comments Thread For: Arum: Crawford's Lawsuit Is Frivolous; Court Will See Case As Malicious Extortion Attempt It Is

[jonnyc420]

The unfortunate situation is the No Black Fighters list that Arum had. The fact that he has kept Valdez as far from Stevenson as possible is unfortunate. His failure to promote Mayweather is unfortunate as well as his statements about Black fighters not selling. His treatment of Crawford and Rigondeaux was atrocious; he was an antipromoter for them.

Rigo is Cuban but hey he does have a dark skin tone. Please point me in the direction of where we can find this list. I honestly have not heard of this and would like to look into it. If something like that is true then maybe this does have something to it. Valdez is also not white, so why would a white racist protect a non white person?

[jonnyc420]

I seperate myself by not claiming Crawford has "no case." You're probably one of those people in lol. His lawyers obviously believe he has a case. I'll take their word over yours.

A lawyer gets paid regardless, and they are not the most honest people as we all know.

[PBR Streetgang]

Bob always seems to have more of these acrimonious breakups with fighters than other promoters.

[jonnyc420]

Bob always seems to have more of these acrimonious breakups with fighters than other promoters.

He's a greedy bastard and been in this game for decades. I mean Don King is also a greedy bastard and has similar issues with boxers. These guys care about their bottom line and that is it.

[Oregonian]

Arum better not get to confident because times are different now they're awarding blacks folks everything nowadays just to keep that *** crap happy.

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What a racist thing to say on an article about Arum being a racist.

[Jsmooth9876]

This is laughable.......
The fking guy signed multiple contracts with the company
what's next, he claims he was a slave and had no choice

[maguirre]

The extortion continues. Bud Crawford fought guys like Lundy, Jean, Molina, Diaz getting paid an average purse of $1.4 million. While guys like Thurman, Porter, Garcia made their first $1 million when they fought one another.

Just looking at Bomac and how he behaves you never have to guess why Arum became a victim of political correctness, lost million $$$ in investments and never recovered them. I can't imagine these folks getting along well with Al Haymon.

[Oregonian]

Failure to promote Mayweather? He got him his first PPV headliner against Gatti which launched his career to the next level. Two fights later it was Judah. Floyd could have had a career high $8 million plus, but ducked Margarito. Left Arum shortly after.

Arum cares about money, not fighters or their race. Crawford has earned more than any other PBC fighter below heavyweight with the exception of Spence, and their earnings are close.

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Context matters. What you wrote is true but only when looked at without context.
Gatti was a PPV star and that was Floyd’s first fight at 140, no thanks to Bob.
As for Judah, again, no thanks to Bob. Floyd and Zab had beef going into that fight and it was Floyd who followed that fight (plus Baldomir) to have leverage against his main goal, Oscar.

Lastly, Margarito offered Floyd $8 million when he himself had NEVER made anything more than $2 mil at that time. And that same year Floyd bought out his contract after Arum said he couldn’t pay Floyd $20 mil for the Oscar fight. A year later Floyd got Oscar and made $25 mil.
Every other fighter after that made the biggest paydays fighting Floyd including Cotto who also dumped Arum.

Context matters. I’ve read many of your posts and you always make compelling arguments.

[jonnyc420]

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Context matters. What you wrote is true but only when looked at without context.
Gatti was a PPV star and that was Floyd’s first fight at 140, no thanks to Bob.
As for Judah, again, no thanks to Bob. Floyd and Zab had beef going into that fight and it was Floyd who followed that fight (plus Baldomir) to have leverage against his main goal, Oscar.

Lastly, Margarito offered Floyd $8 million when he himself had NEVER made anything more than $2 mil at that time. And that same year Floyd bought out his contract after Arum said he couldn’t pay Floyd $20 mil for the Oscar fight. A year later Floyd got Oscar and made $25 mil.
Every other fighter after that made the biggest paydays fighting Floyd including Cotto who also dumped Arum.

Context matters. I’ve read many of your posts and you always make compelling arguments.

Context does matter, and in order for those fights to be made Arum had to be involved and allow the fighter he promoted to fight. If Arum was a racist why did he pay to save Floyd's life? You do know that story, if you dont I suggest you look it up. Also Arum has promoted several black men we see as legends of the sport. I just don't think you can prove he is a racist based off his decades in the sport. Not to mention Crawford's choice to resign with Arum. I'm sorry but why would he resign if he viewed the man as a racist? I know people love the whole victim mentality running rampant recently but please show definitive proof the man is racist.

[Jsmooth9876]

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Context matters. What you wrote is true but only when looked at without context.
Gatti was a PPV star and that was Floyd’s first fight at 140, no thanks to Bob.
As for Judah, again, no thanks to Bob. Floyd and Zab had beef going into that fight and it was Floyd who followed that fight (plus Baldomir) to have leverage against his main goal, Oscar.

Lastly, Margarito offered Floyd $8 million when he himself had NEVER made anything more than $2 mil at that time. And that same year Floyd bought out his contract after Arum said he couldn’t pay Floyd $20 mil for the Oscar fight. A year later Floyd got Oscar and made $25 mil.
Every other fighter after that made the biggest paydays fighting Floyd including Cotto who also dumped Arum.

Context matters. I’ve read many of your posts and you always make compelling arguments.

Margarito didn't offer anything, Arum made the offer. Boxers don't pay other boxers when they fight. And was Gatti really a PPV star? lol I'm not even sure he had headlined a major PPV event prior? He was certainly a popular fighter though.