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

[TheCell8]

Bob's not wrong. It was a horrible mismatch. But he's the last person that should ever be complaining about mismatches. Just look at all the Top Rank fights on ESPN, they've been an embarrassment.

[Tyistall]

Bob Arum should keep that same energy when talking about the Pulev AJ mandatory

[nino brown21]

Fighters earn they're mandatory positions . if it was just a popularity contest then then only the big names would have belts. I don't agree with arum at all . how is a average joe gonna get a world title shot if they don't enforce their rankings . ?

[tokon]

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.

A lot of truth here imo.

Thanks for taking the time to post.

[elfag]

Arum is 100% telling the truth here and the boxing media should do the same. Ok sure maybe Arum is being honest here because its to his benefit but everything is said is true.

Look at this guys record

https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/767555

Its complete chit, his last fight is against someone with a losing record 9-11. He only had How the *** is he a mandatory for the title. He only had 16 fights and most of them are against total cans.

[elfag]

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.

How can you say that with a straight face. Hes coming off of a win over a guy that is 9-11.

The only opponent on his entire record that looks ok is the guy who is 30-7 but then when you look at that guys record, he has been fighting guys making their debut when hes had over 30 fights, so its incredibly padded.

No way that Khongsong should have been a mandatory for a title. I dont even know how he can be in their top 10 ranking other than they refuse to place guys in other competing organizations rankings but this is 140lbs not like we are talking about minimum weight or something here, there are plenty of fighters out there to pick from.

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Top Rank chairman Bob Arum was watching on ESPN+ on Saturday as unified junior welterweight world titlist Josh Taylor smoked obscure mandatory challenger Apinun Khongsong in the first round at the BT studio at York Hall in London.
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Fraud Arum a cancer to boxing himself !

[ecuasionz]

Corona has this fool Arum behind the times. April 1st was nearly 6 months ago

[NC Uppercut]

Some truth.....but sounds abiut like crying over spilt milk Bob.

[elfag]

Some truth.....but sounds abiut like crying over spilt milk Bob.

Id say more that its 100% true, its just that Arum is selectively highlighting it because it wasnt what he wanted. If he had a guy he was wanting to keep busy who could generate big revenue fighting stiffs then he wouldnt say anything.