Comments Thread For: Arum Waiting For The Legal Light To Sign Tim Bradley

[borgata]

Intrestin to see how this plays out.... WBC promised Bradley a shot at the champ when he returns, which might be khan at that point. Ultimately he will be fed to Pac. I'm sure he will be given a tune up, which if he comes back soon could be morales.

I guess roger was right Floyd won't be fighting pac haha

[Sugar Q]

I would bet anything that Arum announces Timothy Bradley as Pac's next opponent either before the Marquez fight or immediately after it.

Great timing, especially right after Floyd smashes Ortiz and Martinez challenged Manny at 150. Let the BULL**** EXCUSES CAMPAIGN begin, LMAO!!!!!

[Check_hooks]

All the top free agents are gonna sign with Top Rank because they know how to promote their fighters better and their founder isn't a cross dressing ****.

[edgarg]

Arum plays Bradley for time, puts a spanner in the works of the goldenboy operation for Khan and forces Khan-Mayweather to happen next summer.

Arum is working for his own business, and it's silly to think that what he's doing with Bradley is to, in some way, foil Golden Balls. He's a promoter, working in his own business, and part of it is to sign good fighters.

Oscar and all the other promoters do exacly the same thing. I've seen lately 3-4 good young fighers signing up with Golden Balls.

The main difference between Oscar and Arum is that Oscar is only the figure head although I'm sure he either owns outright or has the proxy for the majority of voting shares. Whereas Arum himself actively works in his business.

[MJ223]

Wonder who the first opponent is going to be?

[Trapped Bird]

All the top free agents are gonna sign with Top Rank because they know how to promote their fighters better and their founder isn't a cross dressing ****.

Controversies

While working as a boxing promoter, Arum had been involved in many feuds and controversies.

In 1994, he was involved with John Daly for the High Noon in Hong Kong boxing event. The fights were called off at the last minute when Barry Hearn withdrew his fighters as no purses were forthcoming. John Daly blamed Arum when he said, "I've tried desperately to convince my partners to keep the faith. I offered them as much security as I could but it was not quite good enough. It seems I was ready to take the shots, but Mr Arum wasn't."[5]

He has been involved in a forty year feud with Don King, who once called him a "rat fink" in 2000 for admitting during a federal trial that he bribed the International Boxing Federation president in order to gain a more favorable rating for one of his fighters. [1] [2]

He was penalized $125,000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in 1995 for a bribe to get one of his fights sanctioned.

In 2003, Arum complained about the judging in the September 13 bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Sugar Shane Mosley and suggested there was a vendetta against him from a member of the Nevada State Commission that led to De La Hoya's loss. Arum later apologized for the remark which commission chairman Luther Mack accepted. [3]

On the first week of January 2004, FBI agents raided Arum's Top Rank office in Las Vegas. Arum was on vacation when his office was raided, and the FBI originally declined to comment on the raid. The media reported that the FBI was investigating allegations that Top Rank was involved in fixing the rematch between De La Hoya and Shane Mosley, even though De La Hoya lost and Arum was De La Hoya's promoter. The federal agency also announced that it was investigating some of Eric Esch's fights, as well as the Jorge Páez-Verdell Smith fight. The investigation closed in the summer of 2006 with no charges being filed.

In 2007, Floyd Mayweather Jr., who Arum promoted from 1996–2006, accused him of both underpaying and undermarketing him while exploting his talents and manipulating officials. [4]

In 2007, UFC president Dana White accused him of "sucking the life out of the sport (boxing) and not putting anything back in." Amongst White's criticisms were that Arum had created a weak undercard for the De La Hoya-Mayweather fight in 2007 saying Arum did not promote the show correctly. "He promoted that show completely the wrong way, because he worried about the money as opposed to trying to secure the future", White said. "He should have stacked that card. He should have had Shane Mosley and Bernard Hopkins and (Marco Antonio) Barrera and Winky Wright on there and used it to show that boxing is back". Arum responded by saying that MMA fighters need to examine the revenues being generated and ask why the UFC wasn't paying them more. White made these comments not realizing that Arum did not promote the De La Hoya-Mayweather bout, and was not involved in any way with the fight. His only connection was being he former promoter of both fighters. [5] [6]

Arum also filed a lawsuit HBO for overstepping its boundaries in the sport by becoming a defacto promoter while trying to intentionally eliminate him as a promoter. Arum complained that HBO dropped Floyd Mayweather Jr. from his exclusive deal after he insisted his fighter have a tougher bout than the network wanted. The suit was settled out of court but Arum continued to criticize HBO by saying "Instead of working with promoters, like they have done in the past, they have become promoters themselves. They make the fights just like promoters and pay fighters", Arum said. "It's their money and they can do what they want, but Don King doesn't have to go along with it and neither do I. King and I can get along without HBO or Showtime...The problem HBO Sports got into is they became defenders of the status quo. They held you back because they had control." [6]

In 2009, Arum defended Antonio Margarito when he lost his boxing license in the US state of California on charges of illegal hand wraps,[7] implied it was racially motivated and stated that Top Rank would not come back to the state of California until the issue was rectified.[8]

[Simply Zyzz]

That ugly alien head can't even draw 2,000 fans in his hometown, what is the big buzz over him?... Sad thing is he will fight pacquioa next, if they make pac vs bradley you get clottey numbers all over again

[Trapped Bird]

That ugly alien head can't even draw 2,000 fans in his hometown, what is the big buzz over him?... Sad thing is he will fight pacquioa next, if they make pac vs bradley you get clottey numbers all over again

Young, black, undefeated.

[UglyPug]

haha bradley is such a tool. . . arum is circling him like a vulture right now - and better believe he will be used for pacsmash fodder - nothing more. . . arum ain't gonna invest time and money building him up to be his own superstar/attraction. . . rather, he will be given a fight or two, and then his "0" will be FEASTED on by pacsmash.

[Vino Rotcha]

Great timing, especially right after Floyd smashes Ortiz and Martinez challenged Manny at 150. Let the BULL**** EXCUSES CAMPAIGN begin, LMAO!!!!!

SMASHES??? HAHAH... That was a cheap shot. Legal? yes, but not appropriate.

Where is the the essence of boxing in that? No boxing fan is proud on that ending.