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

[edgarg]

Bob Arum used to be a lawyer, so Crawford's chances are slim and none.

He wasn't only just a lawyer, He was a Harvard Summa cum Laude Graduate and likely came first in his class. He ran a tax department for Bobby Kennedy, for years.

In other words a brilliant guy. and believe me..NO racist. ALL the racism around Arum is AGAINST him.

P.S. I want to add, that when I said earlier that the only intelligent posters were Jonny420 and Ghost of Dempsey, I had read less than half the total posts. I had become fed up with all the crap. But since reading on, I see that quite a few other posters have their heads on right, and are NOT racists or ignorant in any way.

To them I apologise strongly.

[MPA2000]

This is a different age and time, Arum better hope he is right.

[Monty Fisto]

It sounds like the real meat and bones of the case is the breach of contract. I think Arum will be on fairly strong ground in this regard given the one year in which Crawford didn't get his contractually-stipulated two fights was when the pandemic was raging and all boxing was on pause. Not unreasonable to think that Top Rank might still owe him a fight though.

Where Arum might not be on such solid ground is the more nebulous area of 'fraudulent and negligent misrepesentation.' Arum talking about how much money he has lost promoting Crawford could easily be seen as bashing his rep and hence negligently misrepresenting him. At the same time, if Arum can produce facts and figures to indeed prove what he is said was factually true, that he was indeed taking a pasting from promoting Crawford, maybe not.

[baroidi]

Maybe old Arum is just out of touch, he has admitted he doesn't know how to market to the "urban" crowd, but Arum can't force a dull personality like Crawford to act all brash and flashy. Crawford should've know that signing with TR would make it difficult, if not impossible, to get the top WWs in his resume. If his personality was lacking, he needed top wins. Lawsuit is trash, Crawford is as much to blame for his failure in becoming a big draw.

[ShoulderRoll]

It sounds like the real meat and bones of the case is the breach of contract. I think Arum will be on fairly strong ground in this regard given the one year in which Crawford didn't get his contractually-stipulated two fights was when the pandemic was raging and all boxing was on pause. Not unreasonable to think that Top Rank might still owe him a fight though.

Where Arum might not be on such solid ground is the more nebulous area of 'fraudulent and negligent misrepesentation.' Arum talking about how much money he has lost promoting Crawford could easily be seen as bashing his rep and hence negligently misrepresenting him. At the same time, if Arum can produce facts and figures to indeed prove what he is said was factually true, that he was indeed taking a pasting from promoting Crawford, maybe not.

The article says that the 3 months with no boxing due to the pandemic are excluded from Crawford's lawsuit.

Arum nororiously doesn't like to open up his books to public view so I wouldn't expect him to produce facts and figures for a court.

[ShoulderRoll]

Maybe old Arum is just out of touch, he has admitted he doesn't know how to market to the "urban" crowd, but Arum can't force a dull personality like Crawford to act all brash and flashy. Crawford should've know that signing with TR would make it difficult, if not impossible, to get the top WWs in his resume. If his personality was lacking, he needed top wins. Lawsuit is trash, Crawford is as much to blame for his failure in becoming a big draw.

A victory over Pacquiao would have been a top win and gone a long way towards making Terence Crawford more of a draw.

But Arum is on record saying he protected Manny from Crawford.

That's another thing that can be used against the old buzzard in court.

[Oldskoolg]

Yes Crawford is a racist.

That’s racist!!!!

[Bornboxingfan]

As I read article and details of lawsuit, It sounds like Crawford or his lawyers
took a few pages out of Canelo's lawsuit against Oscar De La Hoya in regards
to the expectation of being active with at least 2 fights per year.

[kingstip9]

Just because a man is rich and getting don't paid mean he faces racism, so Arum treated Crawford like he just another frivolous skill black fighter. Arum.... Arum net worth is 300 million but Todd Debouffe is the other head that needs to be taken off at top rank.

The world will always be black and white to you. So what’s the point in arguing with a brick wall

[OctoberRed]

It's the job of the promoter to set press conferences up and, ya know, promote the fighter. Bob was open about not investing in this fighter

The word always way, Crawford hated doing press. TR had a very tough time getting him to do interviews, get on radio, TV, etc. He bailed out, refused to do fight week interviews, etc.