SI's Al Haymon article

[Eastcoast]

http://www.si.com/vault/2014/12/22/106690278/the-man-with-the-plan

Good read, lots of old stuff, but I did learn the NBC deal gives NBC some exclusive fighters(!?!) and that his contracts have a termination clause for any fighter who speaks badly of him in public.

[HanzGruber]

Interesting stuff

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Good article...

I have been saying it for awhile... People hate on Haymon but they don't understand that he is looking out for his fighters... Every fighter needs a guy like haymon looking out for their interests, sadly too many fighters don't have that

[Chuckguy]

Good article...

I have been saying it for awhile... People hate on Haymon but they don't understand that he is looking out for his fighters... Every fighter needs a guy like haymon looking out for their interests, sadly too many fighters don't have that

Yeah give us boring one sides fights and when his fighters get exposed he has the judges in his back pocket just in case yeah looking out for his dithers but bending over the fans. Great job

[El-blanco]

Good article...

I have been saying it for awhile... People hate on Haymon but they don't understand that he is looking out for his fighters... Every fighter needs a guy like haymon looking out for their interests, sadly too many fighters don't have that

I hear ya, but they're in the entertainment business which has customers. So while its great that he's looking out for his guys, it's bull**** that he gives the fans, who pay for the sport, bull**** fights. This goes for any promoter.

[SterlingStained]

Good article...

I have been saying it for awhile... People hate on Haymon but they don't understand that he is looking out for his fighters... Every fighter needs a guy like haymon looking out for their interests, sadly too many fighters don't have that

NO.

you're the one that doesnt understand.

Al Haymon is trying to take over boxing by signing these guys WITH DOPE MONEY.

He is bank rolling his legitimate business with dope money. The guy is a criminal overlord. the black alex sosa. Why do you think he is being investigated by the FBI????

why do you think he has clauses in his contracts that state you could be terminated if you say something bad about him?

why do you think HE HAS A MEDIA BLACK OUT POLICY????

the guy is the real life black heisennberg.

You're over here yucking it up that fighters are getting paid to fight mismatches as if that's a good thing for the sport and for the fan.

its not.

[Big_L]

very interesting.

i just want whats best for the sport. if haymon can do it, then i'll support it. but i just don't see the ufc model working for boxing. there's no way haymon can ever have every top fighter. boxing is about the best fighting the best. if his heavyweight can never fight klitschko, he can never be the real champ. he's got a bunch of middleweights but if they can't fight cotto, the real champ or ggg, the best, then there really not that important.

IMO boxing can only get back to where it was if everybody works together to make the fights. not one guy trying to rule the whole sport.

[AgainstTheRopes]

very interesting.

i just want whats best for the sport. if haymon can do it, then i'll support it. but i just don't see the ufc model working for boxing. there's no way haymon can ever have every top fighter. boxing is about the best fighting the best. if his heavyweight can never fight klitschko, he can never be the real champ. he's got a bunch of middleweights but if they can't fight cotto, the real champ or ggg, the best, then there really not that important.

IMO boxing can only get back to where it was if everybody works together to make the fights. not one guy trying to rule the whole sport.

Perhaps having a hold of a majority of the fighters would force the promoters of say GGG, Canelo, etc to have no choice but deal with Haymon or in order to get the fights those fighters themselves sign with Haymon.

[Eastcoast]

very interesting.

i just want whats best for the sport. if haymon can do it, then i'll support it. but i just don't see the ufc model working for boxing. there's no way haymon can ever have every top fighter. boxing is about the best fighting the best. if his heavyweight can never fight klitschko, he can never be the real champ. he's got a bunch of middleweights but if they can't fight cotto, the real champ or ggg, the best, then there really not that important.

IMO boxing can only get back to where it was if everybody works together to make the fights. not one guy trying to rule the whole sport.

It's really difficult to get a good assessment on Haymon as his role in the sport is evolving. Yeah I hate what he did at HBO and Showtime raiding their budgets and giving us subpar fights, but he's taking on a role where he's going to be more accountable, where he's not just there to take money from the networks.

Haymon's going to have to sell a product directly to the customers now. Subpar fights won't do that. We've been getting subpar fights on ESPN, Fox, and NBC for over 10 years now, there's no gold to mine there... So while Al does have a history of robbing HBO/Showtime and shitting on the fans, he also has a history of successively building a massive infrastructure in the entertainment world.

I just don't know how this is going to play out, but I don't think this guy is coming to lose. He's already massively wealthy and had cozy niche in the sport and if he's willing to give up that niche, there must be something there.

[Luiz]

We can just sit, wait and watch how all these things play out.