Comments Thread For: Arum Working on Major November Card in Dubai

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum has made it clear that he is eyeing a match-up between Nonito Donaire and either Scott Quigg or Carl Frampton in the fall. So would Top Rank be willing to send Donaire over to Europe? Well, according to the veteran promoter, there is another market in play for this potential match-up.

"We're willing to go to England with Donaire but I'm working on a big card - not with (Manny) Pacquiao - for November in the Mid East, meaning Dubai," said Arum, who explained why a Donaire-Quigg/Frampton fight could end up here - "because one of the sponsors would be Emirates Airline and they do a lot of business between England and the Mid East."
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[Boxing lives]

sounds good but its all just a bunch of jive talk until it actually gets put together

[The Problem Child]

Yup! A place without corrupt judges. If floyd keeps begging for the rematch, it will have to be in Dubai under Manny's terms and until he is 100% healthy.

[bigjavi973]

Yup! A place without corrupt judges. If floyd keeps begging for the rematch, it will have to be in Dubai under Manny's terms and until he is 100% healthy.

[RED REP]

Yup! A place without corrupt judges. If floyd keeps begging for the rematch, it will have to be in Dubai under Manny's terms and until he is 100% healthy.

Begging for a rematch lololol.

[St. Johns Gent]

he can take his crap cards to dubai all he wants, nobody in america gives a damn anymore about Top Rank, Al Haymon is taking over, his cards have different promoters from all over the USA, bringing the best foreign fighters over to america, DeGale, Khan, Brook and it's a matter of time before he brings even more, i hope he starts bringing those japanese fighters that don't get exposure over here in the states, keep shiming you old sack of crap, thief, liar, and fraud, you and Don King always knew how to prey on the weak minded while Haymon breeds his young American fighters into disciplined and intelligent businessmen, take your crap overseas who cares, Haymon is keeping America on top of the boxing world and working with the best foreign fighters and promoters while Arum tries to shove frauds like Shiming down our throat

[javierigg]

JUST PUT PAQUIAO - MATTHYSSE grandpa

[Mitchell Kane]

The winner of Bradley-Vargas against Sadam Ali is a good match-up, as is Quigg/Frampton against Donaire, but we'll see if they can get the money and tv right for those fights.

There's every reason to be skeptical of it happening in Dubai, though.

But if there's significant money in it coming from outside HBO, I guess it's possible.

There have been inroads into the Dubai market with Filipino fight cards, and maybe there's a market for Ali over there.

[anonymous2.0]

I haven't heard great things about boxing in Dubai. There have been a few times recently where fighters weren't paid, right?

[Lou Cipher]

Goldenboy chased ArScum out of the country. In a year hopefully ArScum will already be dead for 11 months and 29 days but if not he should be promoting matches in Antarctica and Siberia by then.