Bob Arum is an idiot! If you dont know how to promote certain fighters let them go!!

[edgarg]

Let him go Arum. Hand him to Schaefer or something. People are getting sick of these threads. Man these clowns will blame Arum for the climate changes.

They do, climate change is only the beginning...it's all a ***ish conspiracy to rule the world.... I thought that most of the posters here knew that.

[The Ninth Layer]

And he has done just that when he's not fighting the hardest puncher in the sport p4p who had Montiel laying on his back like he was having a seizure. Its like people are saying "please open up and give Nonito more opportunities."

Is it a sin to be cautious against deadly, lighting quick counter punchers like Donaire?

No but being 100% cautious isn't going to endear you to any casual observer to the sport. And it's casual observers (NOT the boxing hardcore) that buy tickets and fill arenas.

Boxing hardcores love to talk up how great the Donaire fight was, how it was a defensive clinic on the level of Mayweather, but the people who actually bought tickets to it were booing the fight. They didn't like what they paid to see.

Its funny how the boxing wizards are "hard to promote" Didnt Bob say the same about Floyd.

Floyd at least can speak English and market himself. I haven't seen anyone on Rigo's team speaking to the media besides his manager.

[-PBP-]

No but being 100% cautious isn't going to endear you to any casual observer to the sport. And it's casual observers (NOT the boxing hardcore) that buy tickets and fill arenas.

Boxing hardcores love to talk up how great the Donaire fight was, how it was a defensive clinic on the level of Mayweather, but the people who actually bought tickets to it were booing the fight. They didn't like what they paid to see.


Floyd at least can speak English and market himself. I haven't seen anyone on Rigo's team speaking to the media besides his manager.

The people booing were there to see a Donaire KO. They wouldn't of left satisfied unless he was on his back.

[The_Sandman]

Arum was speaking very highly of Terrance Crawford weeks ago. I'm not talking money here. I'm just saying, how can you say good things about Crawford and bad things about Rigo? They're both guilty of the same crime. Being too skilled. The only difference is one defeated journeymen and the other defeated a cash cow.

[oneon11]

So true, if I was promoting Rigo my main thing would be to label him a boxing professor that schools everyone one of his opponents. They had "The Rumble In The Jungle" why not have Rigo fight right at the beginning of the school year and promote it as (Rigo) Schools In Session.

[sicko]

Agree!

Why would you even want to hold on to someone you feel you cannot make any money off of. Let him go, GBP have a lot of potential match ups for him and that is probably why he won't let him go instead of another Promotion finding success with him Arum would rather just sit on top of a guy career

HBO and Top Rank want to tell the fans what they "WANT TO SEE", let the Ratings show that nobody wants to watch Rigondeaux because that is not the Case at all. Ratings are not "LOWER" when Rigondeaux fights on HBO. Donaire wasn't even breaking 1 Million Views when he fought on HBO up until he fought Rigondeaux

but at the same time 126-118 lbs division will never have "BIG DRAWS" they never have, Casuals don't give a damn about boxing when it comes to anything lower than 147 maybe 140, after that they really don't care

[Kuyukut]

would i believe a person (ts) making probably a dollar or two above minimum wage calling a harvard graduate and multimillionaire an idiot? nah, i think ts is ******ed and a possible inbred that has mental issues. that's it...

[Russian Crushin]

The people booing were there to see a Donaire KO. They wouldn't of left satisfied unless he was on his back.

People were booing moments of nothing happening which was 90% of the fight. There were literally rounds were they landed a few punches each. The fight was boring to its core, it was just 2 guys hopping around looking to counter punch. I don't understand how someone can think that wasn't a boring fight, no matter who's fault it was or who you wanted to win

[-PBP-]

People were booing moments of nothing happening which was 90% of the fight. There were literally rounds were they landed a few punches each. The fight was boring to its core, it was just 2 guys hopping around looking to counter punch. I don't understand how someone can think that wasn't a boring fight, no matter who's fault it was or who you wanted to win

Was the crowd Pro-Rigo, Pro-Donaire, split in between or neutral?

[PACnPBFsuck]

2 PPV's undercard and Co-headlined the 2nd ever fight in RCMH while getting paid $800K all of this while having 12 pro fights, Bob is definitely an idiot and a scumbag who doesn't care.