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Again I don't see how you build stars out the gate 4 months. Even random luck & fighters doing exceptional things in the ring are needed beyond just time. You need more than big fights. You need big fighters. Haymon can't throw the ghost of Salvador Sanchez in the ring & fight for these guys & make them stars. They gotta do it themselves. Thurman might be that guy among all you listed, but its obvious from his last two fights he's not quite as knight in shining armor-ish yet as people want him to be.
One thing I'm curious of is who do you consider a star today in boxing? What is a boxing star to you, like your definition? To me there are only a very few stars in the sport anyway so its not like PBC is gonna have a dozen stars by the end of the year even if they somehow hired Arum to work for them. If they have 2 stars created in 2-3 years out of the current roster & maybe hijacked 2-3 stars among, lets say, another 50-100 guys they sign between now & this time in 2016 that would be great.
I don't know that they should have. I think PBC is still in the infancy stage of their plan.
And honestly thats my biggest argument in virtually any PBC thread. Is people wanna act like PBC is the savior of boxing (it could be, but I'm not betting on it) or PBC is gonna be out of business by the end of next week (I doubt it, but it could easily fail within the next 2-4 years for one reason or another), but mainly this thing is so young, so unknown & so in play still saying either of those things just shows you as a bias contributor to the debate when so many things are up in the air. I personally feel like many things will get more defined when PBC has some sort of real figurehead fronting PBC. I suspect that'll be Richard Schaffer when he's finished his non-compete clause in a few months. I think things start getting more interesting & there is a clearer goal line established at that point.
One thing I'm curious of is who do you consider a star today in boxing? What is a boxing star to you, like your definition? To me there are only a very few stars in the sport anyway so its not like PBC is gonna have a dozen stars by the end of the year even if they somehow hired Arum to work for them. If they have 2 stars created in 2-3 years out of the current roster & maybe hijacked 2-3 stars among, lets say, another 50-100 guys they sign between now & this time in 2016 that would be great.
I don't know that they should have. I think PBC is still in the infancy stage of their plan.
And honestly thats my biggest argument in virtually any PBC thread. Is people wanna act like PBC is the savior of boxing (it could be, but I'm not betting on it) or PBC is gonna be out of business by the end of next week (I doubt it, but it could easily fail within the next 2-4 years for one reason or another), but mainly this thing is so young, so unknown & so in play still saying either of those things just shows you as a bias contributor to the debate when so many things are up in the air. I personally feel like many things will get more defined when PBC has some sort of real figurehead fronting PBC. I suspect that'll be Richard Schaffer when he's finished his non-compete clause in a few months. I think things start getting more interesting & there is a clearer goal line established at that point.
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