Arum furious with Golden Boy: Vows to get even
September 23rd, 2011
By John F. McKenna (McJack): Top Rank CEO Bob Arum is furious with Golden Boy Promotions and its CEO Richard Schaefer. The reason for Arum’s ire is that Golden Boy has decided to go ahead with the International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight championship rematch between current title holder Abner Mares and Joseph Agbeko on December 3.
Arum is also reserving his wrath for Showtime who will air the Mares – Agbeko fight.
The Cotto – Margarito fight had long been in the works for December 3, while the Mares – Agbeko fight was just announced on Wednesday.
Staging a fight on the same date as another match which is a PPV fight is not something you would expect from Golden Boy.
Arum was quoted in “The Ring” saying the following:
“Richard Schaefer and Showtime ought to be ashamed of themselves. Nobody has done this in boxing in years. To put up a fight against another promoter’s Pay Per View (PPV) with these two guys that nobody has ever heard of. I don’t think that is going to hurt us, but its still really bad form.
“They ought to be ashamed, particularly Schaefer, because Schaefer who does PPV shows, should know better. So there’s one word I want to leave them with and that’s retaliation. I’m not going to get angry, I’m not going to get bitter at what they did, but man am I going to get even in spades. I’m going to retaliate when he’s the most vulnerable, when he has the most on the line and he is not going to get away with this.”
In response Schaefer said:
“That’s the date we got, and I have the responsibility to our fighters to offer them the dates we get. Bob knows that. So if Bob has a beef with Showtime, then we at Golden Boy don’t really need to be put in the middle of this battle, because it has nothing to do with us.”
It is unlikely that “Uncle” Bob is going to buy the lame excuse that it was Showtime and Golden Boy had nothing to do with it. It is also understandable why Arum would be irate that his chief competitor would put on a fight to be aired on Showtime while he was attempting to promote a PPV fight on the same night.
Over the past few months Top Rank and Golden Boy have been working together for the 1st time in years after Golden Boy president Oscar De La Hoya apologized to Manny Pacquiao related to the defamation lawsuit that Pacquiao had brought against Golden Boy Promotions. The lawsuit was brought about by Manny related to insinuations that he had used performance enhancing drugs (PEDS) in his climb up the fistic ladder. The lawsuit against De La Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions execs was dropped in exchange for the apology. It was hoped at that point that Golden Boy and Top Rank would be able to work together in harmony. Unfortunately the new era of cooperation may now be threatened.
It is clear that Bob Arum has gotten the attention of Golden Boy Promotions.
The defamation lawsuit against Floyd Mayweather Jr. is ongoing.
Tags: Agbeko vs. Mares, Agbeko-Mares, Cotto vs. Margarito, Cotto-Margarito ,Abner Mares, Antonio Margarito, Joseph Agbeko, Miguel Cotto28 Responses to “Arum furious with Golden Boy: Vows to get even”
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This just in! Floyd just wrecked one of his bently. Watch cnn. D A M N !!!
Bob is perfectly right to go after them.
Brandon Rios can fight!! man he can Punch..
They may knock Newyork base club
Fighter Pawel Wolak off the tv portion in favor of
Rios
He may add Brandon rios to the card, try get some
West coast sales
its a cheapshot by gbp and showtime!its just like giving away free pizza when your neighboor is selling one!
@ boxing kangaroo
The Mares fight is on showtime (free)
Read the article IDIOT
I mean’t won’t, oops hehehhehehhe
Don’t worry Bob, i want be purchasing the Agbeko v Mares ppv as tempting as it is – not
what arum should do is to put great undercards to his fight!nonetheless,its a cheap shot again by gbp and showtime!
Push for the deposition Bob…that should teach them.
LMFAOL…I am so afraid of Bob Arum that I will wear my fishnet out tonight…to feel more secure….Remember y’ll clothes don’t make the man..the man makes the clothes…a masculine man like me can wear panties and look manly, but if a fairy can wear the carpenter pants, boots and timberland sweater and still breaks like a fairy…
@ Don’t Test Me, Bro
“CONFIRMED 1.4M that Floyd-Mosley did”
who confirmed this? the mayweathers? GBP? schaeffer? ellerbe?
last time i check, the IRS is after 3.4M in taxes only. what does that tells you???
Who wants to see Cotto and Margarito.
Pacquiao fans are in a bad position, they can’t defend Pacquiao without having to defend the actions of Bob Arum as well. What ever they say they cant change the fact that Arum is taking most of Pacquiao’s money and he’s holding up the fight with Mayweather for several reasons that you guys aren’t ready to except.
Some have to wonder if floyd is waiting for bob arum to finally leave boxing, due to age, so the mega fight negotiations will be far easier and may even be made, my p.o is that Arum is the one in the way.
i hope bob will jmust die so boxing is good again
These guys came out of a tournament and their fight was a controversial, close fight. There should be a rematch. Arum is a wealthy man; he should be giving back to the sport by way of enabling the best matches instead of going on an ego trip.
Nope, they have NEVER released official PPV numbers for Pac-Mosley. That 1.4M number is just a projected (coughcough) number that Arum likes to tout. Most reports say it’s closer to 1.3M and that’s probably why Arum won’t release the numbers, because it’ll be less than the CONFIRMED 1.4M that Floyd-Mosley did. Typical Arum bullsh1t. He did the same thing with Hatton-Pacquiao, refused to release the numbers, because they were well short of what Hatton-Mayweather did. Shrug. It is what it is.
A true fan of the sport doesn’t support on the basis of nationality
Why do people think all negative comments about Ward are from Brit fans? Froch prob has more fans in the US than Ward does!
@ Don’t test me Bro’: Actully the PPV numbers for Pacquiao – Mosley were good. 1.4 million PPV. Sorry.
arum is killing this sport its time for him to go
Arum pis$ed at GBP because Showtime gave them the date. Showtime pi$sed at Arum because he talked a huge game about Pac-Mosley which they spent huge on promotions for, only to watch it do terrible numbers (still no official PPV sales – and we’re like what? More than 4 months after the fight now? LOL). Then Arum takes Pac back to HBO for JMM, which Showtime apparently was hoping to at least be considered for, but now they’re left with they’re pants down, no Pac fight, and Mayweather has always been faithful to HBO, so they’re not getting Floyd either. ShoBox apparently very unhappy with Arum giving them the Mosley stinker and then cutting and running, so they’re giving him some payback through GBP.
Rigondeaux and Ramos are almost in their primes.
Forgot to say that the Showtime card is free 99?
What would you rather watch? 4fighters in there prime? Agbeko, Vic, Mares and Mareno? Or 2 shot to hell fighters. Cotto and Margarito? We are on to you Arum. Try splitting that pie one time. You might get some new fans. Oscar and Floyd are out to topple Arum. The disgruntled employees.
Lol Bob the cut-throat pig got his throat cut. And he’s squealin’ like a real porker. Bar none,’Uncle Bob’ is the greediest most ruthless promoter in boxing. His bottom line is always ‘mo money, mo money. He may retaliate against GB but all we as fans ever get from him is in house fights with shi**y undercards. This is a good thing, if he wants to burn GB he has to put on a decent fight.
It was Showtime’s decision.
And I think Arum did the same thing in the past.