Bob Arum More Interested in Winning the Media Battle

[Longhaul]

Arum is putting Spence and Haymon on the spot and they aren’t biting which tells me they don’t want it .Mark my words Spence won’t fight him after being called out and will move up to 154 in a few fights and 15 years from now the sons of some of these clowns on this site will be rewriting history saying Arum didn’t mean it so Spence moved up for bigger paydays

[Szef]

Arum is the Donald Trump of boxing

He literally stepped in & killed the Fury/Wilder rematch and told us fans we don't deserve it yet.

KILLED the rematch that was close to being signed and then told everyone that he wants to delay it until February 2020 where it could be a two million PPV buys type of fight. Then went on a rant on how Hearn has screwed Joshua in signing an exclusive deal with DAZN....Which is not the case at all.

Unless Arum put the gun to Fury's head, showed him the contract and said 'sign or I'll shoot' then the rematch not happenings next is 100% Tyson Fury's fault.

[Eff Pandas]

This sh^t is soap opera-ish at times its so good guy, bad guy oriented lol. But f#ck man anyone can see Arum is the guy who CAN'T or WON'T make the biggest, riskiest, career high payday fights for his fighters. Outside of Manny, & Manny is still fighting off of TR so who knows, all of TR's biggest names have had their biggest, riskiest & career high payday fights OFF OF TOP RANK. That says f#cking everything to anyone paying attention to boxing.

But since Haymon hides behind his curtains peeking out all shyly Arum is able to control the narrative & controlling the narrative is one of the things Arum is a genius at so this is the same ole sh^t with others allegedly preventing big fights that Bud will likely land post-TR easy one day if Arum doesn't change his style or Bob Jr don't **** slap him across the forehead to get some sh^t done cuz this is Bob Jr's company any f#cking day now any f#cking way.

[Ray*]

I mean when has Arum EVER claimed to have talked to Spence's camp about making the fight? If that was the case, Arum would have mentioned that already. Except he said the complete opposite leading up to the fight and said he will be contacting Haymon AFTER the Khan fight.

Does matter who called who or what was said, these fights need to be made. Am not here taking sides and picking what one side says or not say. ONE side as been vocal about wanting this fight. So yes the other side need to step it up.

Like i said if they make Spence/Porter next great, brillaint for us, but if they make another Porter v BS or Spence v BB then i would call them out, because Team Crawford has been in the public talking about wanting the fights.

[Ray*]

Unless Arum put the gun to Fury's head, showed him the contract and said 'sign or I'll shoot' then the rematch not happenings next is 100% Tyson Fury's fault.

Agreed! Not sure if i can give you a green K. If people want to sit there and blame Arum for that, then they should sit there and blame Haymon for Wilder not fighting Joshua or taking the 120m dollars deal offered by DAZN.

[Code Red]

Of course Haymon won't consider the fight. He wants to keep everything in house. If you can't see that then you are dumb as hell.

Like Bob don't ??

[Motorcity Cobra]

Unless Arum put the gun to Fury's head, showed him the contract and said 'sign or I'll shoot' then the rematch not happenings next is 100% Tyson Fury's fault.

What? He literally said he's not making the fight because it needs marinating. Then they pulled Fury from the purse bid. When Fury was asked about who he's fighting he said he leaves that up to his management

[Szef]

What? He literally said he's not making the fight because it needs marinating. Then they pulled Fury from the purse bid. When Fury was asked about who he's fighting he said he leaves that up to his management

Yeah but that was after he signed the contract with Top Rank/ESPN.

If he hadn't signed it, the rematch would still be on. It's not like Fury didn't know who he would and could fight if he signed and who he wouldn't/couldn't. He knew damn well the rematch wouldn't be next if signed it but he still did it. He's the one to blame, not Arum.

[IMDAZED]

I heard an interview with Tim Smith from PBC last year and he said this exact thing is going to happen. He because Arum doesn't have anyone for Crawford to fight he's going to have to use the media to keep Crawford happy by claiming he's trying to make big fights for him. But Arum hasn't called them about any fights.

Then Arum proved him correct when Arum said he called Danny Garcia's father, not Haymon, to make the fight.

Arum has gone from Haymon doesn't exist, Haymon is a cancer, Haymon doesn't tell his fighters about offers, to I'm going to call Haymon tomorrow.

The interviewer tonight started the question off by saying "You've worked with Haymon before" and Bob immediately cut him off and went into his schtick about Haymon not working with Top Rank

Its all an act

Basically this. He’s not calling anyone. He has no leverage anyway. He needs to appease ESPN and the last way to do that is to send Bud to PBC which, realistically, would have to happen.

[IMDAZED]

How do we know they haven’t contact Haymon yet? They already spoke to Team Garcia to see if they would be interested last time, and Team Garcia came out publicly and said they weren’t.

Am not for “Winning” PR battles, more of let’s get these unification sorted but to be honest looking at Haymon/PBC track record and their lack of pushing for unification fights! I wouldn’t criticise Arum for going public about Haymon, if shaming Haymon in public means we get the unification fights that we want then am all for it.

If shaming Haymon means less sales for them and then making them wanting to get their fighters in unification with other champs who are on the other side of the streets then perfect for boxing fans. Our main priority is boxers unifying their division.

They haven’t reached out to Spence, one.

Two, what do you mean, they reached out to Team Garcia? You mean Angel? When did he become the one to handle Danny’s financial affairs?

Garcia instructed them to contact his manager, and Arum said he doesn’t exist, doesn’t have his #, is a cancer, etc.