Comments Thread For: Jermell Charlo: I Wish We Could Create a Union In Boxing

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Jermell Charlo, the undisputed junior middleweight champion and ... intrepid union organizer? The Houston, Texas native, who holds the IBF, WBC, WBO, and WBA 154-pound titles, is one of the better paid and successful fighters in boxing but that did not stop him from mentioning, in a recent interview, his desire to see the sport
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[juanpablo]

These guys can't even organize/coordinate to fight each other but he wants to create a union?

[macmike100]

Man, Charlo, look around. You already have at least 4 unions now. Oh, you want a union above those unions? Imagine that. A union to protect you from other unions.
Boxing is corrupt but what you want is not gonna fix it. Keep thinking, you might come up with something. But, please, no more boxing orgs.

[Deleted]

?! He needs to go back and look at how him and his boys negotiate lol. Jermell joined the club and became part of the problem.. fight intro showing your house talking champion lifestyle.. he played the game and now the game is playing him and he doesn't like it. Bottom line, too late, get what fights are left to fill your pockets.

[Smash]

ok u can have a union, but u have to pay your union membership on top of that LMAO

but yeah boxing is a corrupt sport with lots of grabbing hands but u made history being undisputed and u needed the belts for that & they uped your profile and made u money as well i presume so its swings and roundabouts sometimes, the orgs need to be kept in line with super reg franchise etc, human greed knows no boundaries

[TheOneAboveAll]

pipe dream

[turnedup]

And who is going to run it? Al Haymon? No just no. Boxers need the Allen Iverson plan, first big payday…goes straight to the bank and you can’t touch it til you are 45. These dudes aren’t educated at all in the sport, very few in the sport from the athletic point of view who realize that this isn’t forever, much like football, careers in this sport by far and large tend to be short. Also, expect that union to be a hot mess, pure mess, the amount of money spent within a union paying salaries to staff and lobbying and lawyers would dry that fund fast as hell. Also, who is gonna pay the premium when 70% of licensed boxers carry a full time job, less than 30% of boxers exclusively make their living from the sport. So he expects dudes who are part time boxers to pay full union dues. This only benefits boxers with big names, the average little known boxer is barely able to pay their bills. How many times we’ve seen guys earn 5k for a fight, 10k for a fight, and that’s before all their expenses.

[Doubledagger]

Bunch of spoiled b****.

First of, nobody forcing you to hold on to the belts.

Secondly, you get paid way more when you have the belts and you get much better promotion and advertisement than you would if you didn't.

But you wana complain about a measly little 3 percent?

Get out of here.

[SweetPbfAli]

Man, Charlo, look around. You already have at least 4 unions now. Oh, you want a union above those unions? Imagine that. A union to protect you from other unions.
Boxing is corrupt but what you want is not gonna fix it. Keep thinking, you might come up with something. But, please, no more boxing orgs.

Wait.The orgs are unions for fighters?

[El_Mero]

Im for it if it makes thes best fight the best. But if it doesnt theres no point