Comments Thread For: Arum on Chavez: F***ing Haymon Destroyed Our Work

[jjsmyth87]

that fight was near impossible for him. there was no way he was making 160. i dont even think he can make 168 tbh.

That's the thing, hes such a spooled and entitled fighter that he is just too lazy to cut off all the excess weight. He looks like he's real bulked up, but in his case it seems his muscles slow him down because his frame isn't big enough for 175. Fonfara is a natural 175 lber and that's the difference. Everything bob arum said about Chavez Jr. Was the truth.

[SchoolTheseCats]

Maybe Haymon is more protective of his american boxers ...Chaves is one of his few high profile latino fighters and Haymon messed up the matchmaking on the very 1st fight.

lol come on now lsc has less of a following then Chavez and he fights my neighborhood Mexican Home Depot man

[thiefery]

Good Point ! If he had just let GGG pummel him , no one would of batted an eye , but since it was Fanfara , many were surprised .

Arum tried Making the GGG fight.. Chavez Jr by then had Al or the Watsons whispering in his ear. Bob got Atleast something with the whole buyout. Al gonna squeeze showtime for $$$$ for this

[JJRod]

Maybe Haymon is more protective of his american boxers ...Chaves is one of his few high profile latino fighters and Haymon messed up the matchmaking on the very 1st fight.

This isn't Haymon's fault. Do you think Haymon was happy about last night?
Chavez Jr. doesn't train. His own father in an interview he gave to ESPN deportes David Faitelson admitted that his son went into the fight without sparring much or even training. He only worked with Goosen a real trainer at the very beginning of March. The same thing that happened when he fought Sergio Martinez. idiot refused to train, was smoking pot, and even trained in the living room.

Chavez Jr is lazy, and really a disgrace to boxing.

[ReIoaded]

Bob sounds ******! So Al should have kept putting Chavez in there with smaller guys too??? I'm glad he fought at 170 plus pounds and got his ass whopped!! And what's all this talk about Mexican fighters don't quit??? Jr quit the same way all the other Mexican fighters who have quit in the past. Right on the stool!!!

Mexican fighters get ostracized for quitting. That doesn't mean they don't quit. What it means is Mexican fighters who quit suffer fan back lash.

You officially sound more ****** than Arum.

[Robbie Barrett]

Arum is right... Haymon messed up. If Haymon was smart he should have taken it 1 step at a time. Should have given him a touch at the 168 limit. In his 1st fight, they allowed him to fight at 172 against a contender...lol

I doubt Haymon would have wanted Jr to fight above 168. It's well known Jr likes getting fat eating junk and then being lazy in the gym, the spoilt idiot probably requested it himself.

[jjsmyth87]

Bob sounds ******! So Al should have kept putting Chavez in there with smaller guys too??? I'm glad he fought at 170 plus pounds and got his ass whopped!! And what's all this talk about Mexican fighters don't quit??? Jr quit the same way all the other Mexican fighters who have quit in the past. Right on the stool!!!

Arum was going to pay Chavez 7 million to fight ggg at 168, and if he won hr would have got 10 million the fight after, and if he lost he would have gotten 5 mill the fight after. So that's 12-17 million for 2 fights against someone coming up from 160 as opposed to fonfara who is a natural 175 lber. If Chavez was to get exposed he should have done it against ggg and Carl froch, both of whome arum could have gotten him fights with. Even Chavez Sr. Wanted his son to take the deal and now look, his career is in tatters

[Ham Porter]

Yup. Why wouldn't I?

Not to look like a spacker?

[DoktorSleepless]

My problem with this matchup wasn't that Haymon put in Chavez too tough. My problem is that he put Fonfara in too easy. It was just bad matchmaking. And I'm not saying it was bad matchmaking because Haymon didn't protect Chavez enough. I'm saying it was bad matchmaking because it was a fight that was obvious to me wouldn't be very competitive. Good matchmaking involves making competitive fights, not mismatches like what we got on Saturday.

I admit I was giddy for the fight because I wanted to see Chavez Jr get destroyed for selfish reasons, but overall, a competitive Chavez fight would have probably been better.

[Fetta]

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