Comments Thread For: Las Vegas card lifts boxing from its two Cinco de Mayo knockdowns

[BoxingUpdates]

LAS VEGAS ? After one boxing newcomer sought to flex his status by staging a card at New York?s Times Square and by shifting Mexico?s most popular fighter to Saudi Arabia the next night, a 93-year-old man sat quietly in a press room, smiling in delight after producing a spine-tingling Sunday night.
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[felinoboxing]

Fights with a lot of activity and physical impact are synonymous with banned substances. There are no banned substances in Saudi Arabia. They are also not allowed in fights organized by Arabs abroad. The United States does allow them, unless they are organized by Saudi Arabia.

[JeBron Lamez]

Fights with a lot of activity and physical impact are synonymous with banned substances. There are no banned substances in Saudi Arabia. They are also not allowed in fights organized by Arabs abroad. The United States does allow them, unless they are organized by Saudi Arabia.

I will find you. I will kïll you

[JeBron Lamez]

Damn Bob you had me in the first half, not gonna lie:

"We know, being in this business, that if you don’t entertain the public and give them exciting fights, your clientele is going to drift off. It apparently isn’t their business. They have some other idea of what they’re doing that I really don’t understand."

& then in the SAME INTERVIEW, sügar to shït:

"if the Saudis offer one of my fighters really big money in a fight I believe will be non-competitive and boring, yeah, I would send him. The money is the money,” Arum said. “This is a business. We’re not amateurs."

[Left Hook Louie]

Damn Bob you had me in the first half, not gonna lie:

"We know, being in this business, that if you don’t entertain the public and give them exciting fights, your clientele is going to drift off. It apparently isn’t their business. They have some other idea of what they’re doing that I really don’t understand."

& then in the SAME INTERVIEW, sügar to shït:

"if the Saudis offer one of my fighters really big money in a fight I believe will be non-competitive and boring, yeah, I would send him. The money is the money,” Arum said. “This is a business. We’re not amateurs."

Bob knows exactly what the Saudis are doing. Don't let that first paragraph fool you. He knows Riyadh Season is a shortcut conduit to sportswash the entire boxing fan demographic, just as LIV golf is grabbing THAT demographic for the same PR purpose. Blood money and soul-snatching with an entertainment mask on its face.

[brankobugarski]

Love him or hate him Bob knows the business and talks very plainly about incentives for fighters and what outcomes they drive. Having spent my entire working life either earning those incentives or providing them to others I fully get where he is coming from. Incentives/rewards drive the behavior and apparently the main combatants on the weekend did not have major incentives to look good and entertain when their next fight and a big paycheck were already set.

[brankobugarski]

Damn Bob you had me in the first half, not gonna lie:

"We know, being in this business, that if you don’t entertain the public and give them exciting fights, your clientele is going to drift off. It apparently isn’t their business. They have some other idea of what they’re doing that I really don’t understand."

& then in the SAME INTERVIEW, sügar to shït:

"if the Saudis offer one of my fighters really big money in a fight I believe will be non-competitive and boring, yeah, I would send him. The money is the money,” Arum said. “This is a business. We’re not amateurs."

Both of those statements make perfect sense if you look at it from the point of view of Bob making money (which is always his point of view and indeed every business person's point of view). The first statement is about making attractive, interesting fights so that Bob the promoter can sell lots of tickets, ppvs in other words - Bob making money. The second statement is about somebody else i.e. Turki running a promotion and taking a hit on it by offering one of Bob's fighters really big money for a non competitive fight - once again Bob making money (money is money).

In other words, Bob is a businessman and Turki isn't. Bob runs profitable promotions while Turki is giving away state's money for some other purpose.

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

I will find you. I will kïll you

Let's race !

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

Fights with a lot of activity and physical impact are synonymous with banned substances. There are no banned substances in Saudi Arabia. They are also not allowed in fights organized by Arabs abroad. The United States does allow them, unless they are organized by Saudi Arabia.

Get out of here with that bullshlt troll.

[JeBron Lamez]

Both of those statements make perfect sense if you look at it from the point of view of Bob making money (which is always his point of view and indeed every business person's point of view). The first statement is about making attractive, interesting fights so that Bob the promoter can sell lots of tickets, ppvs in other words - Bob making money. The second statement is about somebody else i.e. Turki running a promotion and taking a hit on it by offering one of Bob's fighters really big money for a non competitive fight - once again Bob making money (money is money).

In other words, Bob is a businessman and Turki isn't. Bob runs profitable promotions while Turki is giving away state's money for some other purpose.

So Arum's hypocrisy/nonsense is clear, right?

For Bob to say "if you don’t entertain the public and give them exciting fights, your clientele is going to drift off" and then just a few breaths later say you're happy to feed into this other business philosophy that you've JUST said will ultimately lose you your clientele...

...is either total hypocrisy (quelle surprise) or perhaps it's jus Bob not realising that one is the company one keeps.

Anyway lemme get off this here