Iole Article: "Why Top Rank’s Future Is No Sure Thing"

[Eff Pandas]

Those guys can all leave, loyalty isnt gauranteed anymore, look how often guys like JMM, Cotto ect switch back and forth from TR to GBP/Haymond.

Loyalty has never been guaranteed & if anyone knows that its Arum/TR with Oscar, Floyd & Cotto all being good to great amateurs who TR signed & moved from prospect to champions to million dollar paydays to leaving TR for greener pastures.

[Fetta]

Loyalty has never been guaranteed & if anyone knows that its Arum/TR with Oscar, Floyd & Cotto all being good to great amateurs who TR signed & moved from prospect to champions to million dollar paydays to leaving TR for greener pastures.

Soon they all will.

Days of fighters signing promotional contracts is coming to an end

[Eff Pandas]

Days of fighters signing promotional contracts is coming to an end

I hope so. I'd love to see some of the best guys of the 2016 class to never have to sign a sketchy ass promoter contract.

[Eff Pandas]

They survived Don King, survived Golden Boy and are comfortably surviving Haymon.

Haymon/PBC is TR's real threat (the $100M lawsuit tells me Arum agrees) & things are "comfortable" right now cuz its still in its early stages. If PBC is able to grab a bunch of the 2016 class (& I don't see how they don't, Haymon can outright sign guys + he has about 6+ promoters he works with regular who can also sign guys that'll end up fighting under the PBC banner) so TR finding the guy to replace the guy who replaces Manny will be much harder & bleak of a job.

[jqSide]

PBC is just starting and it's sinking already.

[Boxfan83]

Iole simply thought to much into this, TR will be just fine. He pretty much contradicted himself when he named off Arums roster. Arum has good young prospects and these prospects represent ethnicities which generate a lot of $ to boxing. The old man knows what he is doing, even in a drought without a star, arum could always sell these prospects right. In sum if it were any promoter out there a fighter or 2 away from bankruptcy its not Arum.

Iole needs to quit getting baked before he writes, these "what if" type articles only bring out the haters.

[SilverMiles]

I think history says otherwise. Top Rank has create the past biggest stars. I've yet to see anyone replicate what they did with De la Hoya, Manny, and Floyd so far.

[Eastcoast]

TR has just had an absolute **** year is all. They have bonafide star talent in Crawford, Lomachenko, and Verdejo - they were simply unable to make any major fights for those guys this year due to the Haymon Cold War and the fact that HBO's top fighters -Alvarez, Cotto, Golovkin aren't under the TR banner so there's less opportunity & less pull.

[Grimmer]

The writer thinks Marquez will fight twice more?


I'd be surprised if he ever laces them up again!

[-PBP-]

I haven't read the article yet but I was about to make a thread on this. They have the fighters but no opponents. Lomachenko's opposition has regressed, Crawford basically took the year off and Bradley has no one to fight.

They are boring me with their matchmaking.