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By Thomas Gerbasi - Having seen it all in the fight game over nearly three decades as a promoter, Dan Goossen isn’t one to glamorize his profession. Sure, it’s nice when you’ve got the big fighter in the big fight and everything runs like clockwork, but more often than not, it’s not always like that.
Promoting requires a lot of faith, a lot of hours, not enough sleep, and plenty of heartache. But Goossen, like most of his peers, will admit that when the bell rings on fight night, it’s an opportunity to take a deep breath and hopefully enjoy the moment, because at that point, what happens is out of his hands.
“Leading into any event, I don’t care what it is, there are a multitude of problems always,” he told BoxingScene. “The stress becomes larger on the larger fights because of various reasons, and I’ve always said that the only time I can really relax from the date of the conception of the event is when the bell is being rung. And everything that was on my shoulders I now pass over to the fighter.”
Beibut Shumenov, a 2004 Olympian for Kazakhstan, can relate to Goossen’s words, considering that when he turned pro in 2007, he did so as his own manager and promoter (along with his brother Chingis). Now this wasn’t one of those situations where the fighter pops his name in a press release and on a ring post and calls himself a promoter. Shumenov actually arranged his own fights and took control of every aspect of his career, which saw him tear off eight wins in a row over the likes of Montell Griffin, Byron Mitchell, Epifanio Mendoza, and Donnell Wiggins. [Click Here To Read More]
Promoting requires a lot of faith, a lot of hours, not enough sleep, and plenty of heartache. But Goossen, like most of his peers, will admit that when the bell rings on fight night, it’s an opportunity to take a deep breath and hopefully enjoy the moment, because at that point, what happens is out of his hands.
“Leading into any event, I don’t care what it is, there are a multitude of problems always,” he told BoxingScene. “The stress becomes larger on the larger fights because of various reasons, and I’ve always said that the only time I can really relax from the date of the conception of the event is when the bell is being rung. And everything that was on my shoulders I now pass over to the fighter.”
Beibut Shumenov, a 2004 Olympian for Kazakhstan, can relate to Goossen’s words, considering that when he turned pro in 2007, he did so as his own manager and promoter (along with his brother Chingis). Now this wasn’t one of those situations where the fighter pops his name in a press release and on a ring post and calls himself a promoter. Shumenov actually arranged his own fights and took control of every aspect of his career, which saw him tear off eight wins in a row over the likes of Montell Griffin, Byron Mitchell, Epifanio Mendoza, and Donnell Wiggins. [Click Here To Read More]
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