Arum deads any thoughts of his fighters fighting in a 175lb tournament

[Motorcity Cobra]

I can't even criticize Bob for this one. The WBSS has done a horrible job promoting fights. The put Regis in Lafayette, two hours from his hometown of New Orleans because it was jazz week in N.O. So his fans in his hometown were attending the jazz festival while he was 2 hrs away. I heard it was about 200 people there.

🙅*♂️ Bob Arum has poured cold water on Sergey Kovalev's talk of a potential light-heavyweight tournament: "We're not giving our fighters away to anybody to fight on a different platform in a f**king tournament." [@**********G]

— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) June 6, 2019

[sicko]

Well the thought of it was exciting but no surprise and he is not really wrong

ESPN Controls 175, WTF do they need WBSS and DAZN to do a Tournament for when they can just match those guys up with each other themselves

[Motorcity Cobra]

Well the thought of it was exciting but no surprise and he is not really wrong

ESPN Controls 175, WTF do they need WBSS and DAZN to do a Tournament for when they can just match those guys up with each other themselves

Right. No point whatsoever in sending them to the WBSS to do something they could do a lot better

[MulaKO]

Right. No point whatsoever in sending them to the WBSS to do something they could do a lot better

Will the Bobfather put his fighters against each other
I just don’t see it

[Bmore18]

Why cant ESPN/ESPN+ buy the 175lb rights to the WBSS. It would be a huge win for the WBSS to get onto a platform with that kind of reach in the US

[Mammoth]

Can he make them fight each other at least?

[bballchump11]

I don't fault Arum here. There's plenty of other light heavyweights though that could compete.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Will the Bobfather put his fighters against each other
I just don’t see it

I think he will after the Kovalev/Yarde.

[MulaKO]

I think he will after the Kovalev/Yarde.

I hope your right
Beterbiev and Kov aren’t getting any younger
The time would be now and would probably help espn gets some coverage for boxing

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

So Frankie2Jabs lied yesterday when he said it was a done deal and that this was top Rank plan all along?