Bob Arum's latest example trying hard to tell us he doesn't care about boxing (f--- you to the fans)

Not to defend Arum, but why would he put on the biggest money fights during covid (especially something like Casimero/Inoue which will be more reliant on gate than other fights)? He's behaving like a promoter who is looking out for his bottom line (which they all are). There are plenty of reasons to hate Arum, but can't really blame him here.
 
You can’t really blame the guy for not wanting to lose money. But he is a scumbag and it seems like he thinks like this even when COVID isn’t happening
 
JayE said:
Not to defend Arum, but why would he put on the biggest money fights during covid (especially something like Casimero/Inoue which will be more reliant on gate than other fights)? He's behaving like a promoter who is looking out for his bottom line (which they all are). There are plenty of reasons to hate Arum, but can't really blame him here.
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Virtually Identical said:
You can’t really blame the guy for not wanting to lose money. But he is a scumbag and it seems like he thinks like this even when COVID isn’t happening
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You people can't be serious... UFC is holding events and title fights through-out covid since day one... Are you people fight fans?
This is a man who could have retired decades ago with more money than his grandchildren can spend.
Dana looks like a saint next to this man.

 
I wonder what's the chance of us getting inoue vs rigo... Maybe arum will think it's an easy new belt because rigo is too old...
Nordine is currently a "champion in recess" so that's out the question.
I guess we can most likely expect Donaire getting a rematch after both guys beat 1 or 2 bums.

Edit: Meanwhile, Hearn and Zafare(actual boxing fans) agree to make the Estrada vs Chocolatito rematch. Imagine if arum was canelo's promoter.. he would have stayed at SWW defending one of teh belts for 7 years.
 
KillerIsBack V2 said:
Arum: Inoue-Casimero Needs Spectators, Won't Happen Without Crowd - Boxing News (boxingscene.com)

How does he get away with saying stuff like this...

He's basically saying he doesn't wanna give us good fights because during corona it wont make him enough money... the man is 90 years old and saving money fights for later years... ffs...
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Well maybe the promoters get the boxers to do it for less money? You know, since love of the game is what really matters.

The truth is, everyone needs to be making their cut for this good thing to keep happening. Sucks but oh well.
 
Quacky Chan said:
Well maybe the promoters get the boxers to do it for less money? You know, since love of the game is what really matters.

The truth is, everyone needs to be making their cut for this good thing to keep happening. Sucks but oh well.
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Everybody is making less money... no matter what they are doing...
Question, would you rather be Crawford or Spence right now?
 
I see Bob's point. We are extra annoyed though, because promoters typically starve of us good fights. The norm for boxing is to infrequently get a great fight when its good for both fighters and the fans, and when that fight does happen there is like a 50/50 chance whether or not it will be exciting.

So, fans don't want an already low likelihood of getting great fights made even lower.

Also, Bob has a point.

Two truths in one spot, I guess.
 
deucesarewild said:
I see Bob's point. We are extra annoyed though, because promoters typically starve of us good fights. The norm for boxing is to infrequently get a great fight when its good for both fighters and the fans, and when that fight does happen there is like a 50/50 chance whether or not it will be exciting.

So, fans don't want an already low likelihood of getting great fights made even lower.

Also, Bob has a point.

Two truths in one spot, I guess.
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Spence has fought every big name in the division... Crawford is crying about his promoter and everyone is shitting on him for not fighting anybody. Kell's corpse doesn't count either, he's left overs from spence which was left overs from GGG plus stab wound.

Even now, he was begging for the pac fight, and Spence took that too...
I refuse to believe that Crawford willingly did this, it's not like he didn't clean out divisions before, we barely had any undisputed champs in the past few decades.

Also, idk why a lot of people here are saying Bob is doing something right.. all the promoters are still making fights... big fights are happening even during Covid, just not bob's stable. The worse decision you can make as a world level boxer is to sign with top rank.
 
KillerIsBack V2 said:
Spence has fought every big name in the division... Crawford is crying about his promoter and everyone is shitting on him for not fighting anybody. Kell's corpse doesn't count either, he's left overs from spence which was left overs from GGG plus stab wound.

Even now, he was begging for the pac fight, and Spence took that too...
I refuse to believe that Crawford willingly did this, it's not like he didn't clean out divisions before, we barely had any undisputed champs in the past few decades.

Also, idk why a lot of people here are saying Bob is doing something right.. all the promoters are still making fights... big fights are happening even during Covid, just not bob's stable. The worse decision you can make as a world level boxer is to sign with top rank.
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I'm not actually taking a side, I'm saying boxing fans traditionally don't get the fights they want when they would be best for everyone, and COVID is not making it any easier. Past that I have no opinion.
 
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