This is good. Because the first way to address a problem is to admit it. And sometimes in boxing, that means to go public.
He makes it sound like he hasn't spoken to Haymon about it but I doubt it, it kinda came from nowhere, it sounded like he was always going to make that statement. Maybe it's to do with the rumours that a lot of PBC fighters are not happy with being so inactive, this is them (Mayweather/Haymon) striking back.
But finally, the issue is being addressed. It's not that people resent fighters getting paid well, it's that it has to be in line with market conditions. Haymon built his whole stable on luring fighters with promises of big paydays and guiding their careers safely - but so many people said for years that it was distorting the market, which is has, badly. Really badly.
If you pay Lara $1m three times against easy opposition, he is not going to accept the same sum to fight someone much harder. It's the reason why Jacobs won't accept no "chump change" against GGG because he got paid $1.5m to be Quillin, who himself was wildly overpaid for years.
This is a massive problem that Haymon created and now he has to fix.
He makes it sound like he hasn't spoken to Haymon about it but I doubt it, it kinda came from nowhere, it sounded like he was always going to make that statement. Maybe it's to do with the rumours that a lot of PBC fighters are not happy with being so inactive, this is them (Mayweather/Haymon) striking back.
But finally, the issue is being addressed. It's not that people resent fighters getting paid well, it's that it has to be in line with market conditions. Haymon built his whole stable on luring fighters with promises of big paydays and guiding their careers safely - but so many people said for years that it was distorting the market, which is has, badly. Really badly.
If you pay Lara $1m three times against easy opposition, he is not going to accept the same sum to fight someone much harder. It's the reason why Jacobs won't accept no "chump change" against GGG because he got paid $1.5m to be Quillin, who himself was wildly overpaid for years.
This is a massive problem that Haymon created and now he has to fix.
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