i agree with this as well. arum is just speaking from a businessman/promoter pov. if he was in charge, we wouldn't have seen bradley v alexander for another 2 years. the fight was a let down, but it just made the picture clearer about who sits where.
alexander doesn't have the character to be a top p4p fighter. now we know, we can move on to khan v bradley, and a fight that does deserve the hype.
fighters these days are too over protected. bradley v alexander was a rare case of undefeated top young fighters facing each other.
if it was up to arum, he would have over protected them both and matched them with more inferior fighters to build the hype. it would have made him and the fighters more money, but it would have delayed us all finding out who's the real deal and who's over hyped.
the same will probably happen when we see lopez v gamboa, but because arums in charge, we got to wait and let him drag out the outcome as long as possible.
alexander doesn't have the character to be a top p4p fighter. now we know, we can move on to khan v bradley, and a fight that does deserve the hype.
fighters these days are too over protected. bradley v alexander was a rare case of undefeated top young fighters facing each other.
if it was up to arum, he would have over protected them both and matched them with more inferior fighters to build the hype. it would have made him and the fighters more money, but it would have delayed us all finding out who's the real deal and who's over hyped.
the same will probably happen when we see lopez v gamboa, but because arums in charge, we got to wait and let him drag out the outcome as long as possible.
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