Comments Thread For: Hearn: Arum's Comments Were So Disrespectful To Terence Crawford

[_Rexy_]

Put Bud in with Pacquiao asap! That would give him global appeal, especially if he beats him. Arum was supposed to do that 5 yrs ago and now he's paying the price.

Well, Pac was supposed to beat Horn...Can't blame Bob or Bud for that.

[Roadblock]

It's very sad that prominent black athletes have to endure this. You know it's really bad when white promoters are offended for Crawford. First Dana White, now Eddie. The irony is that a fighter with an obvious alcohol problem who could have killed other people in his sports card driving drunk at night is more popular among my fellow black boxing fans than a respected family man like Bud. That's truly sad. It really is. What's even more sad is how current and former black fighters with a platform are deathly silent about Arum's obnoxious comments about Bud. Andre Ward and Tim Bradley are con****uously silent, which tells me that their JOBS with BSPN matter more to them than their character, integrity and manhood. The funny thing is that Bud is supposed to be his "dawg". Shouldn't you stand up for your dawg? At least a little bit? Sad all around.

Todays world has eroded human values, its all plastic and on the surface, real people are becoming such a rarity, if one is to rise above the rest they must enter into the core of that plastic world, its hard to stay grounded once they start down that trail.

You cannot sit back today, Hagler would be a wall flower today, I believe if you have a star athlete and want to commercialize him to the fullest then you must teach and groom them for that part of the package, this is the promotor and managers job not the athlete he is the raw diamond.

[BlackR0bbb]

Todays world has eroded human values, its all plastic and on the surface, real people are becoming such a rarity, if one is to rise above the rest they must enter into the core of that plastic world, its hard to stay grounded once they start down that trail.

You cannot sit back today, Hagler would be a wall flower today, I believe if you have a star athlete and want to commercialize him to the fullest then you must teach and groom them for that part of the package, this is the promotor and managers job not the athlete he is the raw diamond.

I acknowledge that it's the promoter's and manager's job to market their fighter, but you completely missed the core of what I said. You're speaking to an entirely different point. A valid point, but not the one I touched on.

[andocom]

Sad part is, that hype was so weak...
Dude doesn't even have 20 fights and he got two unavenged losses.

Jesus, at least try to at least seem rational if not impartial, Salido refused to rematch and the Lopez fight was 4 weeks ago and Loma had surgery directly after it.

What is or isn't hype is a personal opinion, but you couldn't have provided a worse example if you tried.

[Monzon99]

Crawford's not being cheated, he freely entered into a contract with someone who couldn't get him the biggest fights.

Bud is being cheated. The best opponents and challengers are supposed to dare to be great and fight him. They are not. So his best years are being wasted on plan b and plan cs. He is Ali level greatness but he's not getting his Liston Frazier Foreman fights to show it to the world. Bud is being cheated in the worst way.

[Monzon99]

Cant disagree with this. Every group prefers to do business within their ethnic group. Black Americans absolutely should be doing what we ***s learned we had to do millennia ago

Are you saying forced diversity is not natural and does not work? Because every group has their own interests? God intended for Asia to be for Asians, Europe for Euros, Africa for Africans, India for Indians, South America for South Americans. Maybe just maybe all this forced diversity is wrong and unnatural?

[steeve steel]

The fact is Arum doesn't need Bud, and Bud doesn't need Arum. So... If they can work out a deal that's good for both, fine. If not, also fine.

[hitmanjosh]

These other promoters can be a bit

Disrespectful if you ask me; Bob Arum has been around a very long time and each time I hear him, he’s given praise to how great Crawford is and compares him to past greats like Leonard, Hearns etc. I want Crawford to be great and we all know he needs others to participate with fighting him but it’s more than the greedy promoter it’s also the competition of the networks that’s ruined this once great sport!

[Bronx2245]

Hearn gets a chance to clap back! He's speaking truth! Arum is very disrespectful! But is this new? ODLH, Floyd, Cotto, Mikey, and Manny! Bud, you re-signed anyway! Why? That's on you!

[jdp28tx]

You sound like Don King trying to lure Zab away from Arum. Zab regrets it to this day

I agree with your statement regarding Zab. As if black fighters never got ripped off by black promoters. Don King ripped off all of his black fighters. Arum has not done anything racist. He made Bud a millionaire and if that is racist then sign me up. Arum is right, Bud's choice of opponents are out of his hands because Haymon will not let his fighters fight outside PBC. And too be great or a superstar a fighter needs to have a star building fight and it is being denied to him not by Arum, but by Haymon, and Haymon is black. If Haymon cared about his fighters he would want and let Spence fight Bud, because if he won it would make Spence a star, but Haymon only cares about Haymon while most of his roster of fighters sit idly by fighting once every 15 or 18 months if they are lucky.