Comments Thread For: Bob Arum: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is Wasting A lot of Time

[Weebler I]

The $7mil was incentive to re-sign. Chavez could have taken the $3mil with no contract extension. To put it in perspective, Maidana got paid only $1.5mil for a mayweather fight.

Wasn't it $2 million to fight Golovkin? It was a lot lower than the other offer.

Maidana isn't a Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. I believe Chavez put up the highest regular figures on HBO last year. You'd be better comparing him to Mayweather in that equation.

Chavez Jr only hurting his own career by turning down these fights. Arum wont let him out of his contract until he fulfills his end of the agreement.

His end of the agreement is to fight for an acceptable fee. No acceptable fee, no fight. Arum's losing money on him too. It helps nobody, least of all us, the fans.

[Hougigo]

Wasn't it $2 million to fight Golovkin? It was a lot lower than the other offer.

Maidana isn't a Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. I believe Chavez put up the highest regular figures on HBO last year. You'd be better comparing him to Mayweather in that equation.



His end of the agreement is to fight for an acceptable fee. No acceptable fee, no fight. Arum's losing money on him too. It helps nobody, least of all us, the fans.

I think the 2 was for Golovkin

[SilverMiles]

3 mil is more then a fair offer to a fighter like Chavez. Like Arum said he's wasting his career away being pig headed about this.

[Deevel916]

"There is no update*but the point is that I thought that we made a crazy, unbelievable offer to Chavez for the Golovkin fight. It called for the Golovkin fight to pay him a minimum $7 million, and if he lost that fight, we guaranteed him another fight for $5 million. Now if he beat Golovkin, then we would pay him a minimum for his next fight of $10 million," said Arum, whose Top Rank contract runs through October 2015 with Chavez.

"So we would…do these two fights, and the minimum he would make is $12 million, and if he was successful, $17 million plus. He turned that offer down. So we offered him a one-fight offer at considerably less money*but still better than what Golovkin accepted for the fight*and he turned that down. So*obviously, he doesn't want the fight*and we go on with our business."

[Ray Corso]

He's not a real fighter or he would have had 6 fights since his lost to Sergio.
Instead he has repeated fights against an opponent he's "comfortable with"!

Seriously I would not get up and go in another room to watch that kid fight.
He has no style, can't jab effectively and is a clumsy awkward fellow in the ring. Another actor, he and Haye and Tyson Fury could be a comedy trio they damn sure don't want to fight.
Ray

[Hougigo]

I think the difference in the extension and non extension money is... well what's the point in investing a huge amount of money in him if he's going to leave?

I dunno, maybe I"m missing something

[Hougigo]

Damn....freaking Gilberto Ramirez? Dude... just stay out of boxing...

[raymosr]

How about u offer him a contract without an extention u greedy sneaky rat. He's not an idiot like Pacquiao, meaning he will not just sign on the dotted line.

[Larry the boss]

I think Chavez is a spoiled little b1tch..BUT!!!! Arum needs to keep it real he is trying to force the man to sign an extension or pay him peanuts and most likely rob him if he doesn't get the ko...Chavez should pull a Rigo on him..take the fight and win by ko with a cheap shot

[Deevel916]

How about u offer him a contract without an extention u greedy sneaky rat. He's not an idiot like Pacquiao, meaning he will not just sign on the dotted line.

He did. Chavez turned it down as well.