Comments Thread For: Arum Rips Hopkins on HBO, Malignaggi-Mosley on SHO

[Lords]

Arum has made plenty of pointless fights with no meaning so why is he crying for? Manny vs shane was a pointless fight that had no meaning, why did he make that fight? Get lost bobby.

[ShoulderRoll]

Hey Bob, Hopkins vs. Cloud is a title unification fight. The winner will get both the WBC and the IBF belts.

Maybe if you had done the unification fight between Donaire and Mares they would have put that on HBO too.

[hayZ]

Not a fan of Arum but he makes some solid points, GBP need to put two young fighters who just **** on these cards at least. Advertise Boxing like that, the average fan isn't going to appreciate Hopkins style, ****s really boring to watch alot of the time and I like Bernard. Though that fight is better than Paulie vs Mosley...thats a horrible fight. Honestly, Mosley has had his day...give the younger fighters a shot. Build the next generation.

****ing Boxing man........

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

I hate agreeing with Arum

[PunchyPotorff]

Arum has always dissed cards headlined by relics... even going way back to when Top Rank Boxing was on ESPN when they were just starting out. Can't really blame him. Cloud HAS been exposed as clueless with good boxers, and Hopkins is still that if nothing else. Would be great though to see Campillo/Cloud II.

[Zyzz]

funny, when he was promoting pacquiao vs mosley he had nothing but good things to say about mosley....

this is all bitter jealousy that he's not promoting the cards/events and that richard schaefer has showtime on lock and hbo still working with him

with hbo right now sweating about losing floyd to showtime, schaefer has them eating off his palms

[gbonafide]

[QUOTE=ShoulderRoll;12929182]Hey Bob, Hopkins vs. Cloud is a title unification fight. The winner will get both the WBC and the IBF belts.]
Who the hell cares? You don't have to like Bob Arum but he is spot on with his assessment here. The only titles that Hopkins and Mosley are fighting for are the ICAMCIO belt-- that is, the I can't except my career is over belt. And the OMP belt or one more paycheck belt. Brought to you by the Golden Boy geriatric Society.

[ShoulderRoll]

Who the hell cares? You don't have to like Bob Arum but he is spot on with his assessment here. The only titles that Hopkins and Mosley are fighting for are the ICAMCIO belt-- that is, the I can't except my career is over belt. And the OMP belt or one more paycheck belt. Brought to you by the Golden Boy geriatric Society.

Actually B-Hop doesn't have a belt, my fault. Still that is a very interesting fight and Hopkins is a legend whose last fights have done quite well in the ratings.

If Arum would put on more stacked cards like the one tomorrow I'm sure HBO would buy more of them. But we all now that he rarely does. Look at Pac's PPVs....it's the main event and then a bunch of filler.

(I won't disagree that Mosley vs. Malignaggi is a crap fight.)

[thuggery]

I have to agree with Arum's stance on Borehard Flopkins.

Another night of boring clinching and fouls/diving.

[turnedup]

All jokes aside folks are going to hate on Arum even when he's right. Bring some of these fights to regular non premium tv, put some young up and comers on the undercards and lets get a show. The networks have to do their part, they pay vince mcmahon a grip to put on fake wrestling, plus considering how expensive it is to get a major sport on your network, these fights come cheap. I seriously think a boxing match can do upwards of 8 million to 18 million viewers on a saturday night on any major network that's not premium...of course you can't just put two tomato cans in there but give the ppl a show. I'm sure a lot of these younger dudes could use a bump up in pay too. You got dudes fighting on HBO for like 50k - 100k in some cases...ain't no way a network is paying out a budget of $3 million per episode decent number shows and can't do the same for boxing.