Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather: Arum Treated Yuriorkis Gamboa Wrong

[zuldo]

Get off maywhether's ****..u guys need to sttop hatinn
Bob arum is the problem...how do u expect paquiao to get
A 50/50 when he lost his last fight..u guys dont know about boxin...
Maywhether is the man....rest my case....

[LADIV]

here is a certified idiot teaching a grandmaster of boxing. Women beater, trash talker and pot shotter. Floyd is talking about treating a boxer wrong, an idiot asking the pound for pound king to get $40m and be happy about it. What a moron, i just pity the fans who will spend $70 to watch a sure hit boring ppv.

but i bet you will pay the 70 bucks to see the pacquiao fight right?

[WitherGlove]

what Mayweather should have told him was to leave Arum once the Gamboa brand was built. Arum's great hyping his fighters and even greater at peddling garbage fights that the public believes.

Mayweather and De La Hoya left Top Rank once they could stand on their own, it's too bad Gamboa didn't wait.

He would have never built up Gam his plan was to Rob him of a win to build rios like the robbed abril unless gam knocked him out...

[johnnycontrolet]

Smart step by Gamboa to work with Mayweather's team and get rid of his criminal promoter Oner.

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

SpEctacular point.....Gamboa knows this..... It's a big risk on Gamboas part but ask Oscar and Floyd is it worth it....Chances make champions

Are you seriously comparing Mayweather/De La Hoya to Gamboa? Those fighters left Top Rank when they were pay-per-view stars and they left on LEGAL terms. Gamboa can't even sell 100 tickets, has no real following and can't speak a word of English. And yet he was being offered 1.2 million to fight Rios.

[Corelone]

Gamboa missed the boat, and he made a ****** move. Had he pulled his pants up, and went on with the show, he couldn't lose. Rios didn't make weight. Gamboa could have refused to fight after that, got paid, and kept his reputation. Now all he has is a hard row to hoe. That's a self inflicted wound worse than any Rios could give him at 135 Lb.s.

[Gino Ros]

Gamboa missed the boat, and he made a ****** move. Had he pulled his pants up, and went on with the show, he couldn't lose. Rios didn't make weight. Gamboa could have refused to fight after that, got paid, and kept his reputation. Now all he has is a hard row to hoe. That's a self inflicted wound worse than any Rios could give him at 135 Lb.s.

You can't BOTH refuse to fight AND get paid.

That wasn't going to happen.

* He would have to sue for B-o-C to get paid.

[spoonwars]

THE TRUE FAN TEST:

Anyone who sides with a promoter over a fighter is not a fan of the sport.

When did people become ArumTards?

Da hell?

Gamboa must live up to the contract he signed. HIS responsibility.

His ass can ditch Arum after he fulfills or buys out his contract, like what Mayweather, De La Hoya, and Cotto did.

Quit teaching these people not to become responsible for their own actions. If Gamboa gets a bjtch pregnant, is it right for him to take responsibility or go directly to the Mayweather gym?

[edgarg]

How do you promote people without making money on them? I agree that the promoters take a lot of money from the fighters but that's how they stay in business.

I'm sure "Money" takes a cut of his fighters' purses.

Is he allowed to do that when he has no promoter's licence? I saw on the internet that his "Promotion" Co" not only didn't have a license, but also had an unlisted phone. So how much business do they actually do? Maybe Mayweather has a trainer's licence which allows him to take a cut. But those kids wouldn't earn more than a pittance. All the top promoters (I;m not referring to Mayweather) spend up to millions on their top prospects to build them up, and pay them a good income. It takes a while before they start getting it back. They invest in the fighter. if he doesn't turn out well, the promoter is out for a big pile.

With Gamboa, the reports read that Top Rank had "invested millions" in building him up and paying him good purses which so far had not paid off for them. Didn't Arum give Gamboa an advance of $70,000 and was paying him $500 or $750,000 for this fight. Gamboa must be almost broke and in debt to Top Rank.

I suppose that they sometimes make money, and sometimes lose money. Not a business i'd like to be in. Wouldn't mind a good training gym.

[MurkaMan]

How do you promote people without making money on them? I agree that the promoters take a lot of money from the fighters but that's how they stay in business.

I'm sure "Money" takes a cut of his fighters' purses.

Floyd overpays his fighters...he throws money at them, invite them to his house, gives them a legendary mayweather trainer...Look at how happy deandre latimore was in that seckback interview when he said Floyd saved his life...and look at jesse vargas pay check...jesse was OVERPAID!!