By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: For a man that is rarely seen, he sure has a great impact on boxing. Thanks in part to Main Events Kathy Duva, who struck a deal with NBC to bring boxing back to regular TV and attract the casual fan. Haymon will attempt to pick up where she left off. He’s off to great start with his series Premier Boxing Champion series set up on NBC and his deal with Spike TV.

It also seems Haymon is working on deal with ESPN to showcase fights. Many of the boxing greats such as Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard have praised Haymon for making such move, but some fans are not sold on Haymon. There are countless mangers/advisers in the boxing game yet they go to Haymon. If you look around the sport, you have fighters like Mickey Garcia, Andre Ward and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. who have been in legal battles with their respective promotional companies, and sat on the sidelines because of it.

Ward finally broke free is now with Rock Nation. Garcia and Chavez continue to hammer it out in court, but Chavez (who is signed with Haymon as well) is set to fight Andrzej Fonfara on April 18th.

Haymon is known to get his fighters paid, but is considered a cancer in the sport to some boxing fans. Why? Because he is known to get his fighters paid against what some fans refer to as not so dangerous competition. But it takes two to tango in this sport. One to make an offer and one to accept it. Or a fighter can reach out to a manager/adviser and a deal could reached or not. Let’s look a few here concerning Haymon. The most recent is former WBO champion Peter Quillin getting a chance to win back his title against Andy Lee. Quillin was set to make a career pay day of 1.4 million dollars against mandatory challenger Matt Korobov. Roc Nation won the bid and was looking to host the fight until Quillin vacated the title leaving Andy Lee and Korobov to duke it out. Lee won setting up a bout with Billy Joe Saunders. But Saunders accepted step aside money so therefore positioning Quillin to regain his title. If people are upset, then they should be upset with Saunders, not Qullin or Haymon. If Saunders rejects the money, Quillin is waiting on the sidelines. Period. The other is Haymon purchasing Leo Santa Cruz’s contract from Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy. This has set off a lot of fight people including Cuban fighter Guillermo Rigondeaux who was looking to fight Cruz.

If Rigo wants to be upset, he needs to aim his anger at De La Hoya. De La Hoya was talking about setting up a match between the two. I guess Oscar is ridding himself of Haymon altogether which more than likely spawned the sale of Cruz’s contract. Also, I don’t see anybody from Haymon’s side tearing down a fighter that works for him or if they decide to leave. I am aware (through research) that allegedly there is an outline in a fighter’s contract that they are not allowed to speak bad of Haymon should an agreement end. Even if that were true, I have yet to see one of Haymon representatives go to the media and say “Every time I mention (insert name here), Showtime is throwing up” like Bob Arum did with Rigo. Lucas Mattysse parted ways with Haymon and there was no mudslinging. People can call Haymon what they like and say what they like. At the end of the day, his stable continues to grow, he’s a force to be recon with, and he’s about getting his fighters paid.