Comments Thread For: Artur Beterbiev Explains Barrera Mess - He Refused To Fight Me!

[TheUptownKid]

It was a foolish offer and I hope the boxing community doesn't discredit Barrera for this.

[BM dnobagaV]

Full of Ward fans here defending a blatant duck. Disgusting.

"The purse though".. Not the fact that he kicks his ass and gets 10x the purse in his next fight. Barrera should do the world a favour and hang himself. Pathetic excuse of a man.

[Boxing Logic]

So wait Barrera coming off a career best performance was going to get less than 100k to fight Beterbiev? Can't really blame him for backing out. Why is Beterbiev chasing the IBF anyway? He's got the WBC in his own staple just go fight Stevenson already. Al Haymon is playing the same games with Beterbiev as he did with Spence, trying to get them to chase the one belt outside their promotion instead of fights that are easier to make. They wanted Spence to chase a weight drained guy in Brook, they want Beterbiev to fight the Kovalev-Ward winner which is actually a great fight, but the problem is Haymon keeps doing what is best for Haymon, not what is best for his fighters.

Stevenson is the perfect fight for Beterbiev. Get the WBC against an older guy, in Canada, where there is an audience for that fight. Lower risk, higher reward. Instead his career has stalled taking years to chase down a separate belt just because Haymon wants to collect them all.

Anyway, can't blame Duva for getting her fighter a shot at the IBF, but since Beterbiev is in the way, this was not the way to go for Barrera. Duva should have tried to steer him in another direction.

But honestly, if Haymon cared about boxing, he would make Stevenson-Beterbiev. Stevenson-Beterbiev fight on their side, Kovalev-Ward fight on their side, then winners fight. Wtf is wrong with that? Instead Haymon is pulling his usual bull**** and as a result the last two years of BOTH Beterbiev and Stevenson's careers have been a total waste.

[vaynardevil]

yea we get it
very high risk, low reward, rip

[kafkod]

he didn't sign the contract

most likely coz it was shht

how/why did you decide to mention skin color ?????

Barrera signed the contract. The IBF say he signed it and even his own promoter says he signed it.

[kafkod]

Nah, can't blame him for this.

25% of the split against a huge name might be accepted, but 25% against a relative unknown? No chance.

It was a foolish offer and I hope the boxing community doesn't discredit Barrera for this.

75% for the higher ranked contender in an eliminator is a ridiculous rule. That's more than the champ gets with other orgs.

Nobody would blame Barrera for turning down a crap offer for a fight he was probably going to lose. But if he didn't like the split, he shouldn't have signed for the fight.

You negotiate before you sign, not after!

Boxing would be totally fucked if more fighters started doing what Barrera seems to have done here .. sign to fight, then pull out a month before the date if you can't get more money than you accepted by signing the contract.

[SplitSecond]

Barrera should fight Joe Smith Jr. Beterbiev should fight Eleider Alvarez or Stevenson.

[daggum]

haymon gives lara 1 million a fight and he cant even give barrera a decent purse? 200-300k

[Kigali]

Then why the **** did barrerra sign the contract? When the fighter with the right skin color gets a bad deal all of a sudden you defend them. If he won against beterbiev his stock would have gone up. Now he's lucky if he even gets 62k his next fight.

Ass suckin cuban

[Kigali]

Full of Ward fans here defending a blatant duck. Disgusting.

"The purse though".. Not the fact that he kicks his ass and gets 10x the purse in his next fight. Barrera should do the world a favour and hang himself. Pathetic excuse of a man.

Pact*rds/Golovat*rds defending scab wages..... like the scabs they are.