Call Me A Racists But Arum Cant Promote Black Fighters

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After the Marquez fight, that's a bit of an exaggeration. In fact, were he to beat Mosley and Pac., Mayweather vs almost any champion would due no less than 750k.

lmfao, the arena was throwing **** at floyd and telling him "*** you" after the fight... that place was packed with marquez fans, dont give me that bull****, everyone knows marquez was the draw... mexicans are ALWAYS the ***en draw.

[PAKYO]

Uhh, I dont know about that, Floyd is a bonafide draw, period.

In denial...you're getting emotional.

[boxaholic]

It's funny how May-Pac has turned this forum into Top Rank vs. GBP. What's next? Jinkee vs. Ellerbe?


EDIT: Arum got Clottey a fight with Baldomir, Judah, Margarito, and Cotto. Plenty of opportunities; he just never capitalized on it.

Great point. I wanna cheer for Clottey but he hasn't had that defining moment that turns him into a superstar. Bob has put him in big fight but it's Clotteys job to capitalize. 10% I hope that's not true cuz it's not right for Bob to make 2.5 x more than Clottey.

[Ace Boogie]

It bs the way most black fighters get labled as "safety first" or "boring" beeing black myself it makes me mad to think that a day may come when we dont get recognized for skills, and for the record, the peterson bros. were to of the hottest prospects before signing with arum, true Lamont got a title shot, but how long has it been since Anthony fought????

[Galahad]

Yeah I know in the past he worked with Hearns, Ali, Leonard, and thats great but I know that those guys were damn near self made legends. Ali and Leonard were popular right out of the Olympics and Hearns won respect with the way he was knocking muths out so he had a lot of buzz already.

But lately, and I mean the pass 20 years, Arum has really fallen off with Black fighters. Here he has Pac vs Clottey but I'll be damned if there has been any promotional material, marketing etc...directed at Black audiences. I mean Clottey is from Ghana and I'm sure they are excited in his homeland but sheesh, he can be promoted in African American markets as well. What harm is in that, is Arum just really that cheap? This will sound racist but I actually predict a majority white crowd in Dallas. Not majority asian or Filipino, or African, but White. That, if you ask me, is the target audience of this fight. Conservative whites at that.

Even with Floyd, Arum truly failed to see his potential, Floyd stated that he should be making De La Hoya kind of money and Arum laughed at him, so Floyd goes solo and does just that. This more so than anything else showed me that Black fighters need to stay away from Bob Arum.

Clottey may not realize it cause he's making some money with Top Rank, but he is being used in this fight with Pac, and I know he could be making more and having a more fulfilling career with another promoter. He is going into the biggest fight of his life as an unknown, that aint right. He should of been built up properly for this moment.

Jesssssuuuusssssssssssssssssss!!!! Stop crying man. You've been crying the whole day. You are such a drama queen.

[Siggy]

It bs the way most black fighters get labled as "safety first" or "boring" beeing black myself it makes me mad to think that a day may come when we dont get recognized for skills, and for the record, the peterson bros. were to of the hottest prospects before signing with arum, true Lamont got a title shot, but how long has it been since Anthony fought????

anthony's coming off a 2009 that was marred by a knee injury. even as inactive as he is, he's still rated top 4 in 3 organizations at LW. if he wins his bout on friday, he will be in line to fight the winner of soto/diaz, who are fighting for the interim WBC belt (valero = champ in recess).
he's also already got a date lined up on the cotto/foreman undercard.

solid maneuvering by arum, but again, it aint all on arum to market peterson.

now what else is arum supposed to do?

[Ace Boogie]

anthony's coming off a 2009 that was marred by a knee injury. even as inactive as he is, he's still rated top 4 in 3 organizations at LW. if he wins his bout on friday, he will be in line to fight the winner of soto/diaz, who are fighting for the interim WBC belt (valero = champ in recess).
he's also already got a date lined up on the cotto/foreman undercard.

solid maneuvering by arum, but again, it aint all on arum to market peterson.

now what else is arum supposed to do?

gOOD POINT, iM NOT HERE TO BASH ARUM, I jus think its kinda trash that Floyd and Shane are really all that we have left that the general public recognize, its ****ed up to know that we get the least amount of love in this sport

[ShoulderRoll]

It seems to me that the black community doesn't rabidly support boxing like it used to. Why promote to them if they aren't going to come out in big numbers to support the shows?

Compare that to the Mexican community who almost always can be counted on to show up when one of their own fights.

[Calilloyd]

lmfao, the arena was throwing **** at floyd and telling him "*** you" after the fight... that place was packed with marquez fans, dont give me that bull****, everyone knows marquez was the draw... mexicans are ALWAYS the ***en draw.

Where were they in Marquez previous fights? And what fight did Marquez get paid the most money?

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Where were they in Marquez previous fights? And what fight did Marquez get paid the most money?

What he said basically. And I'm sure they will be plenty of excuses when May-Mosley outsells Pac-Clottey by a conciderable margin.