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

[Gary Coleman]

You could feel the tension in the post fight interview with the look at over at Bob regarding getting the big fights.

Bob is blaming Bud, but he's the damn promoter! What are you being paid for?!

[PredatorStyle]

OK Eddie we get that you would like to signe Bud, Eddie cleaning Bud'a77 with his tongue there.

That's basically it. Sad.

[Sosay]

Shouldve left Bob long ago, for any promoter.

[Catch n shoot]

I bet Bud gets robbed before he leaves TR
.. that wbo strap will stay with TR

[sicko]

Bob Arum on his comments about Terence Crawford: "I don't give a s*** if [his team] got mad at me… What'd I say that was wrong? I'll show him how much we've lost on his fights… I'm no longer in the business of losing money on Terence Crawford." [@TheAthleticBOX]

— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) November 18, 2020

This is how Promoters treat their fighters and a Top P4P fighter at that?

It is f^cking time for Arum to retire and let Todd DuBoef take over Everyday Operations at Top Rank I mean seriously this is bad for boxing in general. ESPN cannot be happy especially with Bud recently doing good ratings for them

[CharlieStewart]

Hearn wouldn’t do **** for Crawford either. Crawford at least has some profile and p4p hype, Hearn can’t even get him that on deadzone.

[asianjewel]

Arum was right...It's business! Arum did a lot of mistake in promoting fight by not making the fight what boxing fans want to see. look back on Gamboa/Lopez,(lopez knock out by salido on tune out fight) and more..

[PunchyPotorff]

Hearn definitely wants one of 2 things... to sign Bud...
or pour a glass of milk on his head.

Seriously... I usually don't side with Unkee Bob... but here he does make a good point... which Hearn totally misses. Maybe Bob (or somebody) needs to hire a tutor for Bud... teach him how to be a better speaker. Because for all his massive talent, he really isn't the brightest at speaking.

Besides that... yes we can see Bud won't be with Bob much longer.

[Bronx2245]

Bunch of nonsense. Oh so you are an expert on what a fighter's worth is or what he is "owed"? Why did they not sue? Arum paid Garica well, but Garcia wanted PBC money for soft fights. Manny lost his own money due to his own terrible spending habits. It is well known Manny spends way more than he has. No one has ever said Manny is broke because Arum stole all of his money. To be proven he stole there has to be documented evidence. You claiming one of Garcia's fights made less than anticipated is not stealing. Garcia thought he deserved more money and that is not stealing. You provide no facts, just second hand gossip from boxing forums. I am sure if Manny thought Arum stole from him he would of sued him, but he never has. Many fighters have sued their promoters for theft like Chavez and Norris did with King and there never has been one lawsuit against Arum for such behavior.

Your claims are nothing but gossip. Give me evidence such as court cases. Your **** is not evidence it is nothing but a one-sided opinion because you don't like Arum. But if that is the best you can come up with then it ain't much is it.

January 25, 2017:

Mikey Garcia is fighting back the years

Garcia was on the track to becoming a superstar in the sport, but there was an underlying problem brewing that would eventually derail his career.

"I started to notice a pattern in the way the negotiations would go down [with Top Rank] after I beat Orlando Salido," Garcia said.

Garcia claimed that Top Rank would not pay him the full negotiated amount after several fights, saying his opponents were to blame for a reduced purse.

"It was always a fight with them. I took a $100,000 pay cut on the Rocky Martinez fight, and I got about $150,000 less than what I was promised for the next fight. It started to add up," Garcia said.

While Garcia was unhappy with Top Rank, he figured his contract with the company would expire on Feb. 27, 2014, and he would be able to sign elsewhere. Top Rank, however, told him his contract automatically renewed following a title win or a successful title defense, which Garcia said would indefinitely keep him under an outdated deal he signed in 2009. So Garcia sued the company on April 8, 2014, and it took two years for the case to go to court. In the interim, Garcia made several unsuccessful attempts to resolve the matter with Top Rank as he remained inactive and helped his brother and father at the gym.

Following an unfavorable trial hearing, Top Rank was more open to a settlement and eventually came to terms with Garcia, who was freed from his contract without any compensation last April. Garcia agreed to the deal after denying Top Rank's request for confidentiality.

"I didn't feel I did anything wrong, but I was willing to pay to get out of my contract so I could get my career back on track, but they were never interested," Garcia said. "I thought the process would take a year, but after we got past a year, I was too invested not to see it through. After depositions, they offered to let me buy out my contract, but it was too late for that. I wasn't going to pay anything. I was going to show them that this little Mexican wasn't going to be some kid that they can just push around and do whatever they want."

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/18554444/boxing-mikey-garcia-fighting-back-years

I told you to do your homework! Do you need me to read it to you also?

March 10, 2015:

Miguel Cotto rips Bob Arum

Bob Arum and Todd duBeof were obviously unhappy to hear about Cotto's defection to Roc Nation Sports, and Arum himself came out to blast Miguel for swearing on his deceased father that he'd finish his career with Top Rank, even stating that Cotto was no longer a man for breaking that promise. But Miguel wasn't going to just sit around and have Arum emasculate him to the media, and decided to take the war of words straight to Arum.

"First of all you ask Bob Arum, when our contract ended in February 2011 he and I never sat to talk or discuss anything related to a fight. Every time I sat down [to discuss my future was] with Todd duBoef. So all I have left to say is that the man is a big liar," Cotto said to El Vocero.

"I have nothing to say to Bob Arum. He's never given me anything. What I have is a product of my effort. The money that Mr. Bob Arum invested in Miguel Cotto was recovered ten times over. This is a business and from my signing in 2001, I was a business in the eyes of Top Rank. Here is what's bothering them (Todd and Bob), that they'll no longer be seeing anything [from me]," he said in reference to what Top Rank expected to generate financially in future fights, co-promoting with Cotto.

Cotto then alluded to some sort of scam Arum was running, but wouldn't say specifically what he was referring to.

"One plus one is two in any language. They think I'm a moron but I'm not. They spent years doing the same practice. It has happened to three boxers who have realized that: Oscar De La Hoya, Mayweather Jr., and now, Miguel Cotto. With all three it was the same situation with the same common denominator...So in short, the hassle of Arum and Todd are simply summarized by dollars and cents," he concluded.

This is obviously not the first time Arum has been alleged to not give his fighters a fair shake financially. In fact, this makes me think that despite all the criticism that Al Haymon gets for his matchmaking, he should at least be lauded for this one point if nothing else - because as far as I'm aware, there's never been a fighter whose accused him of taking advantage of them for his own financial gain. Clearly that's a rare thing in this sport.

https://www.badlefthook.com/2015/3/10/8182151/miguel-cotto-rips-bob-arum

I don't know where you've been! This is well documented history!

[Bronx2245]

Or racism is an agenda to divide and conquer!

Heard of the parable of ants. Put 100 red ants and 100 black ants into a jar. They actually live together in harmony. But when the jar gets shook up guess what? They go to war! Guess who shakes the jar on human racial disharmony. Hint. The media.

It's not just the media! Let's hope the next 4 years are better than the last!

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against a spiritual wickedness in high places."

Ephesians 6:12