Comments Thread For: Arum Receives Backlash for Women's Boxing Comments; Jake Paul Answers Back, Calls Him 'Dinosaur'

[Jim Tom]

Bob Arum is in hot water - again. Weeks after his former client Terence Crawford filed a lawsuit against him, citing breach of contract and racial discrimination, the founder of Top Rank Inc. stoked the flames of the buzz-o-sphere by asserting in an interview last weekend that consumers do not "particularly pay attention" to women's boxing.
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Arum just told the truth and the world is in protest? How many of you here have bout women’s PPV or gone to watch them live?

[budfr]

American and Western society ( unfortunately infecting other countries too ) are so fragile and a bunch of hypocrites. Arum said the truth. You want female boxing? OK have female promoters, created your own cards and stay away from the male boxing world. Valdez vs Shakur will be a good fight and most fans ( male ) would prefer to watch that fight.

[Bronx23]

Arum told the honest ugly truth. Everything doesn’t have to always be politically correct. So sick of this “everyone gets a trophy” culture we live in.

[budfr]

Arum just told the truth and the world is in protest? How many of you here have bout women’s PPV or gone to watch them live?

No one. Whoever says otherwise is a liar.

[budfr]

I don't think Bob was lying, but I bet ESPN is not happy with his remarks!

ESPN is happy, they just can´t say it because of politics. You can´t say the truth nowadays.

[JTfloyd]

Ironically enough, if the woke "women can do anything just as good as men!" parrots get their way, women boxers will not only be fighting 3 minute rounds soon, but they'll have to do it against biological men who identify as female.

[Buggy bear]

Bob arum is right , he just being honest, women can bleat on about chances in boxing but the reality is most casual female sports fans do not want to watch women fight and it’s a business like any other.. why are female entrepreneurs not investing in women’s boxing ? Could it be that there is not a return from it ? Ask them and find out from them . Established brands like matchroom and top rank have not survived this long by losing money on dead ducks have they ?

[Walexhris]

I don't think Bob was lying, but I bet ESPN is not happy with his remarks!

The Irony is that they agree with him, they just wouldn't want him to be open about it

[MeanestNiceGuy]

Ironically enough, if the woke "women can do anything just as good as men!" parrots get their way, women boxers will not only be fighting 3 minute rounds soon, but they'll have to do it against biological men who identify as female.

This is where the rubber meets the road! You'll hear SO many female boxers brag about how they "love to spar/fight" men....until it's really time to fight a man in a sanctioned bout.

We'd hear all kinds of protests and crying as soon as one woman goes out there and gets handled like Fallon Fox handled her opponent in her/his MMA match last year. Didn't she/he fracture a woman's skull in an MMA match years ago?

And guess what...when women need to speak out against this, who can actually help them? Yep, you got it...MEN....the same men they "hate." Let's just face it....MEN are the measuring stick for nearly everything a woman does in sports, the job market, education, etc. It's always a woman's "accomplishments" posted right next to a man's accomplishments to measure their success.

[Scopedog]

He’s not exactly lying. I think the sad part is that Bob is in top two leading boxing promotional companies, when he starts down talking women’s boxing, it can only cause it further harm.

Bob doesn't even always extend the courtesy of watching his words to his own fighters under contract. Like you say, he's too old and bitter to give a damn now.