Comments Thread For: Top Rank, Golden Boy Begin To Move Past The 'Cold War'

[The Big Dunn]

Thats not the point

Rome wasn't built in a day so this fight is baby steps towards ending the cold war. Oscar is the one calling the shots now at GBP. This is the best fight on the card and if it lives up to the hype, we'll have more TR vs GBP fights

I think the soonest we'll see that would be 2-3 months

the cold war started here:

http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/p...den-boy-battle

It furthered when Herschman banned Haymon fighters-even though he has let Rodriguez on to fight Ward. WHen herschman lets all haymon fighters back on and TR goes to showtime then it ends.

Hopefully moving forward we will see more fights we want. We agree this is a good starting point.schaeffer and haymon made this fight, not ODH. Give credit where its due.

[KnockoutKings]

Bob got you all fooled. And that is funny. Pac will fight NO GBP fighter as Bob will not share the money from the promotion.

This is such a misconception. Golden Boy/Mayweather have probably had more in-house fights than Top Rank. This whole Arum doesn't want to share money is BS. Was Cotto-Martinez a in-house fight? What about Chavez-Martinez? Hell just recently Terrance Crawford fought Ricky Burns. Arum works with pretty much evverybody, except Golden Boy in recent years.

[bimhead]

so when arum said the same exact thing you fell on deaf ears?

we'll wait and see..actions...louder than words! lol

[bimhead]

How are you open for business when you're telling the public to boycott one of the biggest events of the year, because it does not involve you.

that was then..this is now

[whoseyourdaddy]

You mean Schaefer was more stubborn than Arum. Arum was open to do business but Schaefer made it clear he didn't want anything to do with Arum.

not true Arum kill the Nonito vs Mares when GBP/Schaefe did everything possible to make it happened, so both are intransigent bastards.

[whoseyourdaddy]

The Govt. can't even manage paper clips .... ANd you want them involved with boxing Ask Vets if that's a good idea.

Exactly everthingthe goverment touches it turns into bankruptcy, so no keep goverment out of boxing or it'll go down the drain.

[HanzGruber]

I knew this was gonna happen. It was my first thought when i heard that piece of shlt Floyd was no longer fighting under GBP. Floyd with all his puzzy ass demands and chicken shlt ducking is nothing but a black eye for the sport. Better fights are to come.

You're dumb if u think Floyd was preventing them from working. Even if he was gonna still work with oscar you think he would say " oscar dont work with arum" oscar can't tell Floyd who to fight and Floyd can't tell oscar who to work with

[SUBZER0ED]

How are you open for business when you're telling the public to boycott one of the biggest events of the year, because it does not involve you.

That's not why Arum called for a boycott. Apparently, he was peeved @ the MGM Grand for heavily promoting the Mayweather vs Maidana fight during fight week leading to the Pacquiao vs Bradley II fight, which also took place there.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...tbids-top-rank

[SUBZER0ED]

this fight was signed when schaeffer was with GBP and Haymon manages Russell. WHat exactly did ODH have to do with making this fight?

GBP is Oscar's company. Schaefer may have done the footwork to make this fight, but he worked for Oscar.

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

the cold war started here:

http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/p...den-boy-battle

It furthered when Herschman banned Haymon fighters-even though he has let Rodriguez on to fight Ward. WHen herschman lets all haymon fighters back on and TR goes to showtime then it ends.

Hopefully moving forward we will see more fights we want. We agree this is a good starting point.schaeffer and haymon made this fight, not ODH. Give credit where its due.

haymon and schafer didnt make this fight to mend the cold war. not sure about giving them that credit

convenient that its all on HBO and TR...maybe everyone has to look past what happened and stop holding onto old religion.