Comments Thread For: Agitated Arum: HBO, Showtime Don't Own the Boxing Business!

[Eff Pandas]

Yes, much like professional tennis. The governing body becomes the entity that deals with broadcasters; and offers promotional companies the opportunity to make money by bidding on specific fights. It sets universal rules, ranks athletes, and determines matchups that ensure the best boxers become recognized champions.

Professional damn near anything in the sports world. Every sport works reasonably & rationally to bring the top competitors together for the sport to reach some highest level of competition type level for as much money for as many people as often as possible EXCEPT boxing I think. If there is some sport out there doing it boxing's way I gotta think its a sport much smaller than boxing is.

Its kinda insane boxing hasn't caught up with this most basic of requirements for a sport to excel at its highest level. Boxing is like the guy having a yard sale every summer when every other sport is efficiently selling there wares on Amazon & Ebay every day of the year.

[jqSide]

Bob have had a long standing beef with HBO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WThwwhrHCxc

Bob Arum: "...Nelson doesn't have that vision and I'm not gonna let him screw up our prospects by taking away from us what is our great strength and that's the ability to match-make. And if that means frequently not on HBO, that's too bad we'll find a way."

"Nelson has some ideas of who Crawford should fight and if he persists in his ideas and HBO continues to back him, then we'll take Crawford elsewhere. In other words, we are a company that prides ourselves in putting on fights and match-making and we're not gonna let somebody else come in and do what we do best. Now, HBO is paying us money that fights on HBO, so they have the right and obligation to reject any fight that we give them, but they're not gonna match-make for me."

[OnePunch]

you can count on exactly zero fingers the number of ***s Arum gives......

[CONTROVERSIAL]

LOL replacing? Broner has replaced himself already as far as boxing goes. Haymon didn't do anything. If Broner gets serious about boxing at some point then that'll be the difference in him struggling with the Grandos type cats & perhaps beating the next Porter or Maidana level opponent he fights. Haymon is a manager not a promoter. He's not thinking of replacing anyone. He's getting cats the type of fights they want & giving them their options & likely saying this one or that one is the best option.

Promoters replace mfers like Arum is trying to get Crawford to do with Manny.

broner wont be a priority anymore if he loses to mikey which i expect to happen.... Haymon has no need for broner anymore.... Easter jr is coming up also....

[sicko]

Damn Arum snapped on everybody this weekend

[Eff Pandas]

broner wont be a priority anymore if he loses to mikey which i expect to happen.... Haymon has no need for broner anymore.... Easter jr is coming up also....

Idek what you're talking about at this point.

Broner is a name guy. F#ck man Hector Camacho Jr is still headlining cards at whatever bs level of the game he's at last I looked. Broner isn't going to club shows or whatever anytime soon.

Broner's got a future in boxing however much of a f#ck up he ends up being or however much he sticks to the cruise control he's been on as of late with his training & boxing in the ring.

Fonfara got blasted by Joe Smith in like a round or two. Now he's fighting Adonis Stevenson again somehow. Diaz just got schooled by Crawford as expected & he'll be back on some PBC card later in the year I'd bet. Broner ain't going anywhere & "need" or don't need Broner isn't even in the equation. A L or two isn't taking Broner off of the boxing map just like a W or two didn't put him on the boxing map in the first place. Boxing can certainly change on a dime as we all know, but it seldom changes in popularity (ask Manny who got KTFO by Marquez before being in the biggest fight in boxing history) on a dime.

[Hmabshir]

Bob can't con the audience anymore so he is mad. Dude has hundreds of millions of dollars to his name throughout his years of promoting and now at the final stretch, he is still trying to suck every single penny out of us instead of giving us good fights. Bob, you sick evil greedy bastard you are going to be dead soon at least show us some good fights before you go.

[iamboxing]

Arum is a dinosaur with wrinkly old man balls

[Liondw]

He sure is furious at the networks, yet he still wants to work at age 80 and over.

[CONTROVERSIAL]

idek what you're talking about at this point.

Broner is a name guy. F#ck man hector camacho jr is still headlining cards at whatever bs level of the game he's at last i looked. Broner isn't going to club shows or whatever anytime soon.

Broner's got a future in boxing however much of a f#ck up he ends up being or however much he sticks to the cruise control he's been on as of late with his training & boxing in the ring.

Fonfara got blasted by joe smith in like a round or two. Now he's fighting adonis stevenson again somehow. Diaz just got schooled by crawford as expected & he'll be back on some pbc card later in the year i'd bet. Broner ain't going anywhere & "need" or don't need broner isn't even in the equation. A l or two isn't taking broner off of the boxing map just like a w or two didn't put him on the boxing map in the first place. Boxing can certainly change on a dime as we all know, but it seldom changes in popularity (ask manny who got ktfo by marquez before being in the biggest fight in boxing history) on a dime.

what future does broner have if he loses to a 135 pounder? Not very bright....