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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Tom Loeffler is a smart guy.
Of course, you don’t get your name on the door of the managing director’s office at a major boxing promotion company without being a smart guy, so labeling him smart is by no means breaking news.
Nonetheless, some credit should be given where clearly it is due.
On any given Tuesday in Los Angeles, Loeffler could be on the phone negotiating a deal for consensus heavyweight kingpin Wladimir Klitschko, working out logistics for IBO cruiserweight title-holder Ola Afolabi or commenting for a press release concerning middleweight KO machine Gennady Golovkin.
And it’s on behalf of the latter fighter – who faces Mexican veteran Marco Antonio Rubio this weekend in defense of his IBO and WBA straps – that he’s has worked his latest master stroke.
Not only is the Saturday fight at the StubHub Center for the IBO belt that Golovkin will defend for the ninth time and the nonsensical “super” status of which the WBA deemed him worthy earlier this year; it’s also for a trinket that, while worthless on its face, could make for interesting chatter in the future.
Rubio enters as the WBC’s “interim” champion, which is simply another way for the fee-hungry organization to ransom a recognition-hungry fighter for a few extra bucks in exchange for a concocted new term for what had previously been labeled as a “No. 1” or “mandatory” challenger.
Because he was next up to meet Sergio Martinez while the Argentine recovered from injury and didn’t obstruct a vastly more lucrative bout with Miguel Cotto, Team Rubio got the privilege of wiring some cash to Mexico City so their man could trot out a gaudy green belt and call himself a “champion,” too. [Click Here To Read More]
Of course, you don’t get your name on the door of the managing director’s office at a major boxing promotion company without being a smart guy, so labeling him smart is by no means breaking news.
Nonetheless, some credit should be given where clearly it is due.
On any given Tuesday in Los Angeles, Loeffler could be on the phone negotiating a deal for consensus heavyweight kingpin Wladimir Klitschko, working out logistics for IBO cruiserweight title-holder Ola Afolabi or commenting for a press release concerning middleweight KO machine Gennady Golovkin.
And it’s on behalf of the latter fighter – who faces Mexican veteran Marco Antonio Rubio this weekend in defense of his IBO and WBA straps – that he’s has worked his latest master stroke.
Not only is the Saturday fight at the StubHub Center for the IBO belt that Golovkin will defend for the ninth time and the nonsensical “super” status of which the WBA deemed him worthy earlier this year; it’s also for a trinket that, while worthless on its face, could make for interesting chatter in the future.
Rubio enters as the WBC’s “interim” champion, which is simply another way for the fee-hungry organization to ransom a recognition-hungry fighter for a few extra bucks in exchange for a concocted new term for what had previously been labeled as a “No. 1” or “mandatory” challenger.
Because he was next up to meet Sergio Martinez while the Argentine recovered from injury and didn’t obstruct a vastly more lucrative bout with Miguel Cotto, Team Rubio got the privilege of wiring some cash to Mexico City so their man could trot out a gaudy green belt and call himself a “champion,” too. [Click Here To Read More]
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