Comments Thread For: Arum Vows Public War Over Mandatory Mismatches: It's a F--king Disgrace!

[Ant1979]

Says the guy who 'went to war' to make sure Pulev got his mando shot against AJ.

[Clegg]

Arum never has this issue when his guys get to fight someone ranked 37 in the world for a vacant belt

Another reason the promoters are the issue is that they have cosy relationships with the other orgs. Bob and Warren with WBO, Haymon with WBA, WBC goes with whoever pay them the most that week. So if the big promoters have a top prospect/contender they don't send them down the IBF route often.

Remember when Spence was working his way up the IBF rankings and they ordered him to fight Ponomarev (who was promoted by Bob) as a final eliminator? They had a combined record of 52-0 or something, seemed a good fight but of course Bob didn't take it. Because his aim was to get a title shot without risk. But when somebody else pulls the same trick he complains. Reality is he is waiting on making Taylor vs Ramirez so no way he would've let Taylor make a voluntary against anybody dangerous anyway

[Greenfield02]

It's definitely a disgrace, a ton of these guys should not be ranked that high. But you know what's more of a disgrace? Matching so called top P4P fighters against obscure competition, (cough, cough) Crawford vs Brook, (cough, cough) or pretty much all of Crawford's opponents in the last 3 years or you could say his whole career. Now that's a real disgrace.

[W1LL]

Defies logic, Khongsong being made mandatory.

[boogbx]

The following is my opinion:

As if any mandatory happens in this sport that the promoters don't want to make. Mandatories are excuses for promoters to put on more **** matchups and charge money for them. Or if it can be maneuvered at the perfect time, mandatories can be used as excuses to lie to the fans that "we're giving you this great fight between #1 and #2, in this 1-in-a-100 circumstance where #1 and #2 were actually mandated to fight each other, because we care about the sport, and the best fighting the best, and giving back to the fans," when in reality, the only reason that #1 and #2 got mandated that 1-out-of-100 time, and not the other 99 out of 100 times, was because it was finally the time that the promoters wanted to cash in on that big 1-vs-2 fight anyway.

Why did Loma get moved to mandatory to fight for the WBC vs Campbell? Because that was a marketable fight in the UK. Why did Loma get mandated to fight Crolla? Because Crolla is the other big UK name at that weight class besides Luke Campbell.

Why did Kovalev get mandated to fight Stevenson, only for political bull**** to prevent the purse bid from ever happening? IMO, to create controversy and storylines to try to build fan interest in that fight 3 years down the line, but it never panned out.

Why did Povetkin get mandated to fight Wilder, only for it not to happen? IMO, to hype up Povetkin but mostly Wilder's name, as the one big ticket selling American top heavyweight, for bigger fights against not-Povetkin down the line.

All that is my opinion, anyway. IMO, the sanctioning bodies work hand in hand with the promoters, and the promoters work hand in hand with the other promoters. They pretend to hate each other because "political divisions" are IMO, you guessed it, another excuse to sell you crap fights for years while they build up the fight you actually want to see. Without IMO fake "political divisions," there would be no excuse why Crawford and Spence didn't fight years ago, and same with many others. But with these IMO fake political divides, they have a great excuse to hype you up to watch Crawford vs Brook because even though Crawford, the #1 or #2 welterweight, will only be fighting maybe the #10 or #20 fighter in the weight neighborhood, they can sell it as "he's actually fighting the best guy available on that side of the political divide."

Just my opinion.

I dig your style Brother always making clear your personal opinion but providing facts to support your argument. Excellent post by the way and you saved me the trouble.

Right on.

[sicko]

waste of time and a waste of promoters and networks money!

[Boxxymcboxface]

Pot, meet kettle

[Scopedog]

Honestly just because Khongsong got taken out with one perfectly-placed punch doesn't mean that he wasn't a worthy challenger. The guy was unbeaten, coming off of good wins, and looked as if he was going to be competitive until he was taken out by one perfectly-placed body shot. That's the kind of thing that can happen to anyone if they drop their guard for a second. Reminds me of Crawford vs Indongo. Indongo was coming off of brilliant wins back then too before he got cut down by Crawford's body shot, except Arum didn't cry back then about Indongo being unworthy because Crawford picked up another belt in that fight.

[Marvlus Marv]

Nothing like dropping truth bombs when you're high af. Bob's at least 110 yrs old and he's still letting rip #respect

[Shadoww702]

Next up Simon Sesmeta vs.a top p4per