Comments Thread For: Austin Trout Files $40 Million Lawsuit Against The WBO

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Another Rocchigiani situation?

That is the outcome Haymon is hoping for and he's willing to spend big money to try to make it happen.

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WBO better settle.

Haymon won't want to settle. He's hoping to bankrupt them.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Pbc trying to eliminate the wbo from top rank and arum. I was wondering why I seen some wbo threads today.

This lawsuit is Haymon's response to Arum's ESPN deal.

Let the games begin.

He filed this lawsuit 2 years ago. It was amended by the WBO & moved to San Juan. Arum just got his ESPN deal this year. This has nothing to do with Arum & ESPN. Did you see how the played Trout out of his title shot?

[Shadoww702]

Haymon won't want to settle. He's hoping to bankrupt them.

LMAO!!! I KNEW this couldn't be Trout's idea. That's one smart dude... I wouldn't want to cross him.

RIP for the WBO.

[deanrw]

40 million is nothing compared to what he would have earned. I placed all his info into my super computer and it stated if he would have got that fight against Smith, it would have led to super money. He would now be worth $400,000,000 as it would have been Trout fighting Floyd last Saturday.

Poor Fella.

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He filed this lawsuit 2 years ago.

Was filed after Arum's suit against Haymon.

Takes years to arrange the chess pieces.

Arum sued Haymon because he wanted ESPN.

So Haymon is financing a suit against the WBO as Arum has nothing without the WBO.

Just because you guys are talking about the ESPN deal & the WBO lawsuit in 2017 doesn't change the fact that 2015 is when the moves starting being made.

Surprised it took this long for anybody to care about the WBO suit. Trout isn't going to settle. Haymon wants to cripple Arum here.

[Shadoww702]

Was filed after Arum's suit against Haymon.

Takes years to arrange the chess pieces.

Arum sued Haymon because he wanted ESPN.

So Haymon is financing a suit against the WBO as Arum has nothing without the WBO.

Just because you guys are talking about the ESPN deal & the WBO lawsuit in 2017 doesn't change the fact that 2015 is when the moves starting being made.

Surprised it took this long for anybody to care about the WBO suit. Trout isn't going to settle. Haymon wants to cripple Arum here.

*** Be FUNNY see how many Arum fighters all sudden got ranked??? And then the books show the WBO got some xtra $$$ around the same time... Arum already on record saying he pays to get rankings.

Doesn't Arum LOVE the WBO the most???

Check.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Was filed after Arum's suit against Haymon.

Takes years to arrange the chess pieces.

Arum sued Haymon because he wanted ESPN.

So Haymon is financing a suit against the WBO as Arum has nothing without the WBO.

Just because you guys are talking about the ESPN deal & the WBO lawsuit in 2017 doesn't change the fact that 2015 is when the moves starting being made.

Surprised it took this long for anybody to care about the WBO suit. Trout isn't going to settle. Haymon wants to cripple Arum here.

This has nothing to do with Arum. Do you know why he's suing them?

I've had a lawsuit going since 2015 and trial hasn't even started. I just got depositioned two weeks ago. You have no idea how multi million dollar lawsuits work

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This has nothing to do with Arum. Do you know why he's suing them?

In life there are often multiple whys. In this instance, you have the publicly claimed why, which are the facts of the case related to him being passed over in the rankings as a favor to Frank Warren (WBO #2 promoter).

But the larger why is a proxy war. Bankrupting the WBO deals a crippling blow to Arum (WBO #1 promoter).

Arum sued Haymon to get the ESPN exclusivity dropped because his long term plans revolved around ESPN. So Haymon decided to finance a Trout suit to try to bankrupt the WBO because Arum's long term plans can't work without the WBO.

So when you say this has nothing to do with Arum and ESPN, you're wrong. Sure, the legal justification for the suit has nothing to do with Arum, but the motive for spending the money it will take to take this all the way to the end to try to bankrupt the WBO, that has everything to do with Arum.

[Motorcity Cobra]

In life there are often multiple whys. In this instance, you have the publicly claimed why, which are the facts of the case related to him being passed over in the rankings as a favor to Frank Warren (WBO #2 promoter).

But the larger why is a proxy war. Bankrupting the WBO deals a crippling blow to Arum (WBO #1 promoter).

Arum sued Haymon to get the ESPN exclusivity dropped because his long term plans revolved around ESPN. So Haymon decided to finance a Trout suit to try to bankrupt the WBO because Arum's long term plans can't work without the WBO.

So when you say this has nothing to do with Arum and ESPN, you're wrong. Sure, the legal justification for the suit has nothing to do with Arum, but the motive for spending the money it will take to take this all the way to the end to try to bankrupt the WBO, that has everything to do with Arum.

#1 He wasn't passed over for a title shot. He was removed from the rankings all together then put back on after Thompson & Smith was already made. No Arum fighter was involved in this.

The WBO removes him from their rankings which causes him to lose his title shot which causes him to lose money he would've made from that fight. And if he win it also caused him to lose money from his fight with Charlo which would've been a unification. What is he supposed to do in this situation? Not sue?