Comments Thread For: Schaefer on Working With Haymon, Golden Split, More

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MGM Grand, Las Vegas - Former Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer was all smiles during Thursday's final press conference for Saturday's debut edition of 'Premier Boxing Champions' on NBC.

Schaefer was the CEO for Golden Boy from 2002 until he stepped down in June of 2014. Currently, Schaefer is retired from the sport. But, he does provide some advice and support to his close friend, Al Haymon.

Haymon, regarded as the most powerful man in boxing, is the manager/adviser to over 170 fighters. Haymon is going to use his 'Premier Boxing Champions' series to showcase the majority of those fighters. The series, called PBC for short, has locked in multi-year deals with NBC/NBC Sports, CBS/Showtime, Spike TV, Bounce TV and likely ESPN.
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[Canvas]

What Schaefer did was wrong. I wouldn't trust him at all.

[Thutch2412]

What Schaefer did was wrong. I wouldn't trust him at all.

Without Richard GBP wouldnt be where it is today. While Oscar was dressing as a woman and in and out of rehab, like him or not Richard kept that company going.

[jjsmyth87]

What a damn snake in the grass. He doesn't want to tell his side because there is no excuse for his shady business dealings. Oscar trusted his entire company to be ran by Shafer and here he was behind closed doors with al haymon conspiring to help haymon at the expense of Oscar and golden boy. I wonder how much haymon paid that rat to betray him. Now instead of golden boy having 170 fighters, they all belong to al haymon. I also wonder how much Oscar got in his settlement. I'm sure it must be somewhere near that 50 million dollar mark. Also shaefer was the one who started the cold war, and the one who kept it going. Obviously the plan the whole time was to hurt both goldenboy and top rank and make haymon the most powerful guy in boxing and it worked for the most part. But top rank is never going away they were always a powerhouse and they always will be one. Golden boy isn't either. Its good for boxing to have different promoters as long as they are all working together. Thanks mainly to shaefer, haymon and arum have refused to do business together besides the may pacquiao fight. Lets hope that sets a precedent for future fights between the two promoters, so we can see the best fights. Say what you want about arum and his boisterous ways, but he gas some of the vest fighters in all of boxing and haymons fighters deserve to be able to fight them regardless of who the promoter is. That will be shaefers legacy, starting a cold war between promoters that lasted many years and who knows how many more.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

What a damn snake in the grass. He doesn't want to tell his side because there is no excuse for his shady business dealings. Oscar trusted his entire company to be ran by Shafer and here he was behind closed doors with al haymon conspiring to help haymon at the expense of Oscar and golden boy. I wonder how much haymon paid that rat to betray him. Now instead of golden boy having 170 fighters, they all belong to al haymon. I also wonder how much Oscar got in his settlement. I'm sure it must be somewhere near that 50 million dollar mark. Also shaefer was the one who started the cold war, and the one who kept it going. Obviously the plan the whole time was to hurt both goldenboy and top rank and make haymon the most powerful guy in boxing and it worked for the most part. But top rank is never going away they were always a powerhouse and they always will be one. Golden boy isn't either. Its good for boxing to have different promoters as long as they are all working together. Thanks mainly to shaefer, haymon and arum have refused to do business together besides the may pacquiao fight. Lets hope that sets a precedent for future fights between the two promoters, so we can see the best fights. Say what you want about arum and his boisterous ways, but he gas some of the vest fighters in all of boxing and haymons fighters deserve to be able to fight them regardless of who the promoter is. That will be shaefers legacy, starting a cold war between promoters that lasted many years and who knows how many more.

Man shut up. Oscar brought this on his self. If he wasn't so busy snorting crack and cheating on his wife with ******s,maybe he would of knew what was going on. When Schafer was running GBP things were looking up for them until Arum got in his ear. He so dumb as Arum said that he doesn't even know Arum cut him out the fight by convincing him to split with Schafer and Haymon. Trying to blame Richard when even Bernard said Rich was the man. Oscar just a jealous little dope fiend girl. He talked with Arum before splitting and talked about ending the cold war. Have they made a meaningful fight yet?? Hel.ll no because Arum played the dumb crackhead. He doesn't care to work with Oscar (the guy he called the ******est boxer he ever met) he just basically cut him out of the biggest fight in the history of boxing.Oscar showed his true colors when he used the race card to try and block May2nd. Now look at all the relationship Oscar ruined that Schafer built up. From Aeg,to the Barclay's. None of them want to deal with a drug addict that's why they all pulled out. You talk about the cold war as if Oscar wasn't contributing to it also lol now he's just so innocent SMH. Arum do have some good fighters but most of them will leave. Garcia wants out and it's only a matter of time before Crawford leaves. So who does Bob have besides Manny, lomachenko and Crawford until he leaves

[SchoolTheseCats]

What a damn snake in the grass. He doesn't want to tell his side because there is no excuse for his shady business dealings. Oscar trusted his entire company to be ran by Shafer and here he was behind closed doors with al haymon conspiring to help haymon at the expense of Oscar and golden boy. I wonder how much haymon paid that rat to betray him. Now instead of golden boy having 170 fighters, they all belong to al haymon. I also wonder how much Oscar got in his settlement. I'm sure it must be somewhere near that 50 million dollar mark. Also shaefer was the one who started the cold war, and the one who kept it going. Obviously the plan the whole time was to hurt both goldenboy and top rank and make haymon the most powerful guy in boxing and it worked for the most part. But top rank is never going away they were always a powerhouse and they always will be one. Golden boy isn't either. Its good for boxing to have different promoters as long as they are all working together. Thanks mainly to shaefer, haymon and arum have refused to do business together besides the may pacquiao fight. Lets hope that sets a precedent for future fights between the two promoters, so we can see the best fights. Say what you want about arum and his boisterous ways, but he gas some of the vest fighters in all of boxing and haymons fighters deserve to be able to fight them regardless of who the promoter is. That will be shaefers legacy, starting a cold war between promoters that lasted many years and who knows how many more.

you want guys to be tied down to a company when the face of the company is out snorting coke all day putting on fishnets and ****ing hookers Schaffer didn't start Cold War that begin when pac signed with both top rank and golden boy for his promotional rights

[Canvas]

Without Richard GBP wouldnt be where it is today. While Oscar was dressing as a woman and in and out of rehab, like him or not Richard kept that company going.

He was paid millions of dollars in salary by Oscar, yet he conspired to act in Haymon's best interest. And btw, Golden Boy was built on Oscar's cache with sponsors and networks.

[Outwest Exp 355]

He was paid millions of dollars in salary by Oscar, yet he conspired to act in Haymon's best interest. And btw, Golden Boy was built on Oscar's cache with sponsors and networks.

And Schaefer was the one who negotiated the network and sponsorship deals.

[Canvas]

And Schaefer was the one who negotiated the network and sponsorship deals.

Which is what he was paid to do.

[Mitchell Kane]

Richard kept that company going.

That was his job.