Comments Thread For: Golden Boy, ABC, WBO Join In Pending Haymon Lawsuit

[Mitchell Kane]

He's written a lot of stuff about Haymon and most of it, from what has transpired so far, hasn't turned out to be true.

You couldn't be more wrong.

[Pretty Boy32]

This really is escalating quickly.

[BOXEO _]

By this time next year Haymon fighters will be restricted solely to BET.

[Barcham]

By this time next year Haymon fighters will be restricted solely to BET.

Why? They are not fighting there now, Roc Nation fighters are. They may have a monthly show on Spike. Who knows? We may see Haymon on an episode of Cops! LOLOLOLOL

[SUBZER0ED]

By this time next year Haymon fighters will be restricted solely to BET.

Or the Cartoon Network.

[Ravens Fan]

Racist? Are you ****** I'm not even White. But if you call Haymon out for his BS you must be a white man? LOL For your info I'm half black half Puerto Rican you dumb phuk

He will still find away to call you a racist. He may even try to convince you that your Puerto Rican half hates your black half.

[Eff Pandas]

He is clearly acting as manager and promoter, which is a conflict of interest, and a direct violation of the Ali Act.

You need a promoters license to promote. Al Haymon does not have a license to promote as far as I'm aware. He surely hasn't promoted any PBC fights I do know that. He's simply outsourcing that job. A manager outsourcing the promotional aspect of a fight isn't a violation of the Ali Act.

People so casually say Al is promoting its believed without even a thought. If Al is a de facto promoter by whispering in the ear of the person he's hired to promote than I think there is a lot of **** going on by en****** like HBO that should have gotten criticism & lawsuits years ago.

And the Bob's & Oscar's are surely doing some managing of fighters without actually having a managers license also. How many times has Bob said Manny has "these 3 guys" to choose from as his next opponent. If that isn't some level of managing Manny's career I don't know what is.

[Mitchell Kane]

You need a promoters license to promote. Al Haymon does not have a license to promote as far as I'm aware. He surely hasn't promoted any PBC fights I do know that. He's simply outsourcing that job. A manager outsourcing the promotional aspect of a fight isn't a violation of the Ali Act.

The ABC definition of "promoter":

http://www.abcboxing.com/boxing_acts.html

The term ***8220;promoter***8221; means the person primarily responsible for organizing, promoting, and producing a professional boxing match. The term ***8220;promoter***8221; does not include a hotel, casino, resort, or other commercial establishment hosting or sponsoring a professional boxing match unless***8212;

It's your understanding that Haymon isn't primarily responsible for organizing the PBC events and that he isn't Haymon isn't the one who's primarily promoting them?

Do you not consider running television, magazine and online ads "promoting"?

[Sweet Jones]

You need a promoters license to promote. Al Haymon does not have a license to promote as far as I'm aware. He surely hasn't promoted any PBC fights I do know that. He's simply outsourcing that job. A manager outsourcing the promotional aspect of a fight isn't a violation of the Ali Act.

People so casually say Al is promoting its believed without even a thought. If Al is a de facto promoter by whispering in the ear of the person he's hired to promote than I think there is a lot of **** going on by en****** like HBO that should have gotten criticism & lawsuits years ago.

And the Bob's & Oscar's are surely doing some managing of fighters without actually having a managers license also. How many times has Bob said Manny has "these 3 guys" to choose from as his next opponent. If that isn't some level of managing Manny's career I don't know what is.

Exactly.

These all-of-a-sudden 'strict constructionist' of the Ali Act are killing me.

And I'll just repeat what I've said in previous forums: NONE of these promoters and networks really want to wind up in court on this. None of these en****** really want to go under oath and having to be ON RECORD about all the wink-wink deals, all the collusion between promoters and networks to artificially cap boxer purses and freeze out 'managers' and 'advisors', all the under-the-table handshake deals between promoters and sanctioning bodies, etc. And that's not even considering their own collusion with Haymon in the past (LOL at ODLH trying to explain how much he knew about how GBP secured all those prime SHO dates)

The discovery process for a lawsuit like this could expose alot of folks in the industry. And that's even if the AG wants to pursue it, which is no guarantee when looking at all the loopholes in the law ('advisor' role, actual 'role' of a promoter in securing financing and organizing an event, questionable real 'damage' being done, etc.)

But y'all keep on hoping though.

[North Star]

Or the Cartoon Network.

Cartoon Network/Adult Swim is too hip for boxing.