Comments Thread For: DiBella Defends Haymon/PBC Against Lawsuit Troubles

[Dolezal]

I guess suing for [allegedly] breaking both federal and state laws makes you a hater now. Baxin is a cutthroat bidness doe! Innocent until proven guilty doe!

[about.thousands]

Difficult to file a lawsuit based on the PBC and it's investors when the PBC did not exist at the time and the investors were not yes involved with Haymon. That is just about the ******est question I have ever seen posed on this board, and that is saying a LOT!

PBC as a company has been in existence since last year. In the lawsuit ODLH claims January 1st, 2015 as the date the damages to his company began. The original settlement agreement was dated December 19th, 2014. Since PBC was already in existence when the settlement was agreed upon I don't understand what happened on January 1st, 2015 that caused GBP to have new claims? PBC series wasn't even announced officially.

Golden Boy was more profitable with Haymon than without so I don't understand how ODLH would complain about the way Haymon does business. This could have been GBP on NBC, CBS, SPIKE, BOUNCE, FS1, ESPN but it was ultimately Oscar's decision not to go with the plan. He'd talked about a similar plan back in 2015

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/oscar-de-la-hoya-s-new-fight/126187

[about.thousands]

You and Dibella fall under the same illusion where you want to pick and choose what part of the Ali Act is important and ignore the rest. The Ali Act was to protect fighters from conflict of interest and prevents anyone from acting as a promoter and manager. Your argument that right now we can't see that the fighters are being exploited so lets ignore that Haymon is clearly acting as both Promoter and Manager. And just because you think they aren't being exploited now doesn't mean they potentially won't be down the line. It's like arguing with an officer who pulled you over for drinking and saying I know I was drunk driving but I didn't hit nobody or hurt anyone and that is what the spirit of the law is so don't arrest me. No you go to jail because the potential of something bad happening and because the law is you can't drink and drive. The law is you can't be manager and promoter because there is risk of conflict of interest. Honest question do you think Haymon is not handling the responsibilities of both a promoter and manager?

You do know DiBella helped write the Ali Act, right? If anyone knows what the purpose of the act, and the spirit of the act, it's Lou.

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what else would dibella say? haymons ass is his ass now

[bigdunny1]

You do know DiBella helped write the Ali Act, right? If anyone knows what the purpose of the act, and the spirit of the act, it's Lou.

And the fact that he is working for Haymon and paid by Haymon is why he is basically trying to ignore significant pieces to the Ali act. He knows he is not calling the shots for these fights like he would if were really promoting a fight. He is defending Haymon simply because he wants to keep getting paid.

[Fetta]

And the fact that he is working for Haymon and paid by Haymon is why he is basically trying to ignore significant pieces to the Ali act. He knows he is not calling the shots for these fights like he would if were really promoting a fight. He is defending Haymon simply because he wants to keep getting paid.

Thats a pretty far reach for someone like Lou.

[Hougigo]

DiBella is working with Haymon. What else is there to understand?
He's been in and around the scene a long legit time. NOW TAKE WARRIORS, damn is that a sham.

TGB promotions too... they started handling some of the bigger cards. They're doing Mares/LSC

[peplz]

I guess suing for [allegedly] breaking both federal and state laws makes you a hater now. Baxin is a cutthroat bidness doe! Innocent until proven guilty doe!

They have no legitimate claim of a greivance through the law that they are alleging he broke. The Ali act is meant to protect fighters from promoters not to protect promoters from managers. If Haymon is indeed found to be in violation of the Ali Act I really don't see how it benefits Arum and De la Hoya's case of a claim against him. The Ali Act seems to be more of a fail safe against promoters wielding control over the fighters manager. If the manager is wielding control over the promoter it only serves to benefit the fighter. It was Bob Arum, HBO and De la Hoya who refused to do business with Al Haymon in attempt to blackball and ostresize him now they seem to be getting a dose of their own medicine and are looking to be bailed out of the predicament they have found themselves in through a lawsuit. Oh how the tables turn...

[rasdun]

I would love to see some of you people admit that you don't care about the Ali Act or the welfare of the fighters and that you only care about seeing Al Haymon take a loss because you think by proxy Mayweather would be seen to have taken a loss also. Truth of the matter is that no matter what happens with this case Floyd Mayweather is The Best Ever and Top Rank, De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao all can cry a river tears but nothing will change that. They can sue Al Haymon out of boxing but Mayweather will still be remembered as The Best Ever. Don't it hurt so bad? And how pathetic is it to file a lawsuit when you've been outsmarted by someone you thought was your subordinate. Lol. Top Rank and Golden Boy = Sourg****s and Sore losers.

LMFAO. no one really thinks Floyd is the best ever. Maybe an argument can be made for the best of this generation, but Roy Jones has a legit claim to that argument.

Tht sai, this article is abuot Haymon. I could care less, as long as we see the best fights. Al has made a few, like Broner v. Porter amd Garcia v. Peterson (although they were both unecessaily at catchweights instead of 140 or 1470. We have also still gotten way too many mismatched like Erislandy Lara v. Delvin Rodriguez and Keith Thurman v. Collazo

[about.thousands]

And the fact that he is working for Haymon and paid by Haymon is why he is basically trying to ignore significant pieces to the Ali act. He knows he is not calling the shots for these fights like he would if were really promoting a fight. He is defending Haymon simply because he wants to keep getting paid.

DiBella is not gonna knowingly risk his company and freedom being a conspirator to breaking a law he help write. You have to use some common sense. Lou knows that law better than anyone in boxing. The reason he's valuable to Haymon is because he knows that law like the back of his had. None of us knows how PBC actually works but I'm sure Lou has helped Al set it up in a way that it doesn't break the Ali Act.