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This promoter said he'd pay Boxer A 5 million to fight Boxer B. blah blah blah. Enough.
Unless someone has the actual documents scanned and shown, we do not really know the particulars of any of these contracts, ever. It is all from 2nd hand sources. We read it on these sites from reporters who talk to promoters, managers, etc. All of these people are very capable of lying, or at least leaving out information.
Take Winky Wright vs Margarito. Winky was supposedly offered 4 million. But, we don't know if that means 4 million split between the two or 4 million for Wright. People automatically assume it means 4 million for Wright. Say it does. We don't know if Arum wanted ridiculous options on Wright, who clearly has no interest in signing with promoters since he has started his own promotion. Or he might not have offered any live gate, or there might have been a rematch clause for Margarito even though Winky would clearly be the favored fighter.
This is a game promoters play. They make offers to fighters all the time that they know the fighters will refuse. Like when Jones and Hopkins were offered an insulting 1 million split supposedly. Or when Toney was supposedly offered just 1.5 million to fight Wladimir. Assuming those offers are true, those offers are made so promoters can say that the fighters turned them down.
Arum's plan with Margarito is simple. He wants to build him up as this guy everyone is ducking. This way he can keep feeding bums like Gomez and Lujan to Margarito and can just say "everyone is ducking him." And most of the fans, too blind to see through the smoke screen, believe the hype.
But this is not just with Margarito. This kind of thing happens all the time in boxing. Spinks obviously didn't really want to fight Zab Judah ever. But Judah took very low money, he called Spinks' and Kings bluff to get those fights made.
But I got off topic a little. The point is unless we have the actual contracts in our hands or scanned into the computer for us to read, we really do not know what the terms are. I don't think the vast majority of fighters sit around ducking each other. I don't think Margarito is scared to fight people, but at the same time I don't think anybody is scared to fight him. Margarito is not being ducked, he is being protected. Arum is just using an old trick to make it look like Margarito is being ducked.
Unless someone has the actual documents scanned and shown, we do not really know the particulars of any of these contracts, ever. It is all from 2nd hand sources. We read it on these sites from reporters who talk to promoters, managers, etc. All of these people are very capable of lying, or at least leaving out information.
Take Winky Wright vs Margarito. Winky was supposedly offered 4 million. But, we don't know if that means 4 million split between the two or 4 million for Wright. People automatically assume it means 4 million for Wright. Say it does. We don't know if Arum wanted ridiculous options on Wright, who clearly has no interest in signing with promoters since he has started his own promotion. Or he might not have offered any live gate, or there might have been a rematch clause for Margarito even though Winky would clearly be the favored fighter.
This is a game promoters play. They make offers to fighters all the time that they know the fighters will refuse. Like when Jones and Hopkins were offered an insulting 1 million split supposedly. Or when Toney was supposedly offered just 1.5 million to fight Wladimir. Assuming those offers are true, those offers are made so promoters can say that the fighters turned them down.
Arum's plan with Margarito is simple. He wants to build him up as this guy everyone is ducking. This way he can keep feeding bums like Gomez and Lujan to Margarito and can just say "everyone is ducking him." And most of the fans, too blind to see through the smoke screen, believe the hype.
But this is not just with Margarito. This kind of thing happens all the time in boxing. Spinks obviously didn't really want to fight Zab Judah ever. But Judah took very low money, he called Spinks' and Kings bluff to get those fights made.
But I got off topic a little. The point is unless we have the actual contracts in our hands or scanned into the computer for us to read, we really do not know what the terms are. I don't think the vast majority of fighters sit around ducking each other. I don't think Margarito is scared to fight people, but at the same time I don't think anybody is scared to fight him. Margarito is not being ducked, he is being protected. Arum is just using an old trick to make it look like Margarito is being ducked.
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