Is Al Haymon's INVOLVEMENT IN BOXING a GOOD or BAD Thing?

[davidandrei]

while i like the idea of one big boxing boss, is al haymon that dude? so far, hes done his job as advisor very well (high reward low risk fights). if he becomes the dana white of boxing, how does that affect his advisor status? Will his promotion affect his advisorship of his fighters fighting salkas for massive money?

[RAV3N]

He is bad, especially with the way he is handling Garcia at the moment.

The poll doesnt correlate to the question.

[Chiboxing123]

Don't See how as a so called "fan" of the sport you could say he's good for boxing. No other sport on this earth is like boxing i swear

[Based_God]

Where is the option for I don't know how to make a poll?

[Mindrapist]

He's been a breath of fresh air up to this point. I have no problem with Haymon buying up TV air space to get his fighters dates. In fact it should encourage others to do so. The Rigo situation is a prime example. After his greatest victory he was frozen out by HBO. 20 dates on NBC Sports and 3 on NBC. Why would any real boxing fan have a problem with that?

When it's a black guy, apparently.

Think about it. Most to fans clamor for boxing's return to TV and moan about the big networks' reluctance to invest in it.

Not here comes a guy who's willing to invest his own money into buying slots to showcase and air fights -- taking on the costs himself! -- and people bytch about it?!

Are people for real?? If this were Arum, he'd be lauded as the messiah, the savior of boxing.

Just like people said when he made that Mosley-Pacquiao stinker and got CBS involved in the marketing. "Forget the match, it's good for BOXING! They're investing in the SPORT!"

Now that they invest more than they ever had, people complain that they're losing money on the Floyd deal (the same people that complained about Floyd's inactivity), complain that this guy is trying to invest money into bringing more boxing to the mainstream and to the fans.

I just don't understand this sometimes.