bull6599;707821 said:
I c/s what u said. I been saying FUCK Bob Arum b/c he's the real reason the fights not happening. He has been reluctant and downright refused to put any of his fighters in the ring w/ Floyd since he left Top Rank b/c he's still bitter that he left and became arguably the sports biggest star. He did the same thing w/ De La Hoya when he left Top Rank & started Golden Boy. In fact 1 of the main reasons Floyd left Top Rank is b/c Arum wasnt willing to negotiate on is behalf for a fight w/ Oscar. He claimed there wasnt enough money to be made off the fight, but it went on to become the richest fight in boxing history. Arum's full of shit!!!
exactly.. i wish i could find the article.. but bob flat out said
"the oscar fight just isn't there"
ppl who don't know really lose out on the truth of the matter.....
when floyd's contract with top rank ran out, floyd was starting to realize how marketable he could be, and pubically called out oscar as the fight he wanted...
arum said the fight wasn't there, but offered floyd his biggest pay day to date...a fight with margarito...
NOW READ VERY CAREFULLY!!!
arum said floyd can get 8million to fight margarito, however, signgin that fight would extend floyd's contract for 3 more fights, where there was a ceileing on how much floyd could make off of each fight.. and oscar delahoya was pretty much out of the question simply because bob didn't want that fight for floyd...
floyd was insulted, but knew it was business... and turned down the fight...even though the 8 million looked good, he really thoguht he had a chance at fighting oscar when bob said it wasn't there.. plus there was a national hero named ricky hatton constantly calling floyd out who had all types of fans in eruope..another fighter bob wanted to stay away from..proof in ricky wanting to fight cotto at 140...that never happened....
so once this hit the presses..goosen jumped right in and offered floyd the baldomir fight for
THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY...MINUS THE 3 FIGHT CONTRACT EXTENSION..and also baldy was the linera champ at the time coming off of the zab judah victory...no doubt baldy was an easier fight... but let's lok at the business here....
u get the same amount of money...no restricting contract extension, and the oscar fight is still on the table....
so floyd beat the shit outta baldi for 8 million..his highest pay day to date....then of course don king hears floyd is a free agent.. he's all about making money.. so what happens next??
"hey floyd ..who's that zab judah fight sounding to you??"
zab may be shit now... but at that given moment, it was largely beleive that the baldomir fight was a fluke, especially afterthe way floyd destroyed baldi.....ppl still wanted floyd/zab...
so floyd self represented himself again to fight zab...so 2 fights in a row dude succesfully made much more oney than he could have with bob, and now oscar was throughly interested in makingg a fight with floyd.. and ricky hatton was also very interested as well...
all the while bob is jealous as shit and starts throwing cotto and margarito's name in the press saying floyd was scaredto fight them... meanwhile he has oscar and ricky hatton on the table for what was verylikely 5 to 6 times as much money as fighting margo & cotto at the time these fights happened... ppl forget that neither cotto or margo were very well known at all on the ppv level when all this shit went don.. ppl tend to have selective memory and think that floyd was ducking these huge stars, when these dudes were looking for a big fight come up...
the shit was always business man, always business......
when floyd came back for his retirement... dude had a plan to go at manny, he was very careful in fight selection...he wanted manny, he wanted the biggest possible fight...
but it was bob who wanted to feel like he was in the drivers seat with every possible negotiation...and when floyd consistantly proved that he was worth enough money to dictate how shit goes..bob falls back to the
"mayweather is just a coward" defense....he's a promoter..one of the best..it's his job to influence minds...
it's just that once u learn how shit goes...u can see right through it...
dude tried to hide a couiple of his recent manny fight numbers fromt he press, cuz he knew floyd was out prodcuing in every outing.....
shit is crazy man.. bob arum is the devil