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

[edgarg]

Fraud Arum a cancer to boxing himself !

Listen to this genius talking....muttering I hope. Arum put on about 30 Ali fights, not to mention countless other top fighters..... and handled the whole of Marvin Hagler's career. You may not know that between Hagler and Arum there was NO contract, only a shake hands mutual trust.. One time Don King got to Hagler's wife and started whispering in her ear that Hagler should sign with him, we blacks should stick together and etc. When she spoke to Hagler, trying to persuade him to leave Arum, he was short an sweet. He said

"If you ever try to interfere in my business again, I'll stop making the payments on you're mother's house."
I hope you see something in this...the right thing -not your irrational prejudices.

[PRchamp]

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.

At the end of the day they don’t care about us fans. Like you stated it’s always a win-win for networks,promoters,sanctioning bodies and managers to make sure they rolling out this crap product.

That’s why I laughed when they were crying about losing $$$ during this pandemic when they’ve been ripping off the public. Coronavirus best fits the big promoters Because they got a excuse to instead the crap

[Squ□redCircle34]

Can’t disagree with The BobFather here!

It should’ve been Catterall-Khongsong then the winner fights Baranchyk-Zepeda for the right at the winner of Taylor-Ramirez

[Ant1979]

Why not, Pulev is entitled to it. 6'4" 30 fights only i loss to Klitschko when he was good. And he's fought his way to it, has been waiting a long time too. He's one of Arum's fighters which obliges Arum to get him the best fights he can. And AGAIN, need I say he is a deserving mandatory, long overdue. Joshua is not a "easy" fight but the other kind...

My point wasn't in opposition to any of the above. Although being deserving is arguably determined by the quality of who you beat, not how long you are prepared to wait.

My point is Arum was spitting feathers at the prospect of Whyte (or now Povetkin) facing Fury as mando before the AJ clash. He's thrown similar tantrums in the past with Loma etc.

Though attempting to sound principled, he's clearly motivated by financial interests. Principles cost you something, otherwise they're not principles. Again, I'm not taking Arum to task for being financially motivated, we're dealing with boxing promoters here at the end of the day!

I'm pointing out the hypocrisy/double standards of a man trying to pass off the 'health of the sport of boxing' as his main concern when really he's out for making as much money as possible.

That's why I wrote what I wrote.

[redrick]

Aurm

f---k this old dude he got a mismatch coming up the the WBO is making happen 122 lb vacant title he not talking **** about that.

[killakali]

f---k this old dude he got a mismatch coming up the the WBO is making happen 122 lb vacant title he not talking **** about that.

Ruben Villa is a good unbeaten fighter

[LoadedWraps]

The Bobfather runs boxing.

[just the facts]

The Bobfather runs boxing.

You don't have to polish Arums testicles because he promotes your favorite fighter.

Arums got a point but he's the king of the agenda. If a mandatory mismatch benefited his agenda, he'd be singing a different tune.

[just the facts]

Ruben Villa is a good unbeaten fighter

Who's about the 15th best fighter in that weight class.

[The3]

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.

But the IBF just want the young vs the young , Kid is 24 and Taylor is 29 two guys under 30 going at it

Kevin Lerena 28 mandatory to Mairis Briedis

Joshua Buatsi 27 mandatory to Artur Beterbiev

Zach Parker 26 mandatory to Caleb Plant

Bakhram Murtazaliev 26 mandatory to Jermell Charlo

Kudratillo Abdukakhorov 27 mandatory to Errol Spence