Golden Boy signs David Lemieux

lemieux55By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions may have lost a number of fighters last Friday in settling their case with former Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer and Al Haymon, but they’ve reportedly added #2 WBC, #3 WBO, #5 IBF, #13 WBA middleweight contender David Lemieux (33-2, 31 KOs) to their growing stable, according to Dan Rafael.

This is a much better move than the recent 12 signees that Golden Boy made this past week. Lemieux actually has the kind of talent to where he could possibly become a title holder.

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Golden Boy settles with Schaefer, Haymon gets Broner, Wilder, Maidana, Danny Garcia and Danny Jacobs

schaefer2By Chris Williams: Golden Boy Promotions has settled their legal issues with former Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, according to Lance Pugmire of the LAtimes.com. As a result of the settlement, Golden Boy Promotions will be losing Adrien Broner, Danny Garcia and Daniel Jacobs to manager Al Haymon.

Golden Boy will still keep Amir Khan, Lucas Matthysse and Leo Santa Cruz, even though all three of them are now being advised by Haymon. They’re still under contract with Golden Boy at this time. Whether that will stay that way once their contracts end is unclear.

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De La Hoya makes statement, but says very little

de la hoya33By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya finally came forward today to make a statement following the resignation of Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer this week, but instead of directly addressing that issue, De La Hoya merely sent a positive message that came across as a pep talk of sorts.

Here’s what De La Hoya said: “Golden Boy Promotions is moving ahead on all fronts. We look forward to continuing and expanding our key position in the boxing world and to providing the public with the very best the sport has to offer.”

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Ellerbe: Mayweather might work with Golden Boy for Canelo fight

may219By Dan Ambrose: Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe said yesterday that Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t be appearing on any of Golden Boy Promotions’ cards now that Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer is no longer with the company. But that doesn’t mean that they won’t meet with the Golden Boy brass in the future for a potential rematch between Mayweather and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez Jr, Ellerbe says. That would be the exception to the rule as far as Mayweather appearing on a Golden Boy promoted card.

Ellerbe says that that the management person that they worked with in the past was always Schaefer and never Oscar De La Hoya. He said De La Hoya wasn’t sitting in on their meetings.

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Change is good for Oscar and Schaefer

By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: Change can be good. It’s never bad unless one mismanages his/her time while making the change. The abrupt stepping down of Richard Schaefer as CEO of Golden Boy Promotions has done just that; brought about change. I refuse to side with either because I don’t know where either would be without each other.

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Richard Schaefer Resigns from CEO of Golden Boy Promotions

schaefer2By Gerardo Gomez: After months of speculations, Richard Schaefer put the rumors to rest today as he resigned today from CEO of Golden Boy Promotions. For Boxing fans, this day was going to come sooner or later. Now that Schaefer is out of Golden Boy, a lot of questions will be in people’s minds. Who will be the new CEO of Golden Boy Promotions? What will happen to all the fighters sign by Al Haymon? Will they continue to be with promoted by Golden Boy? Will Oscar De La Hoya be in charge of promoting fights?

What will happen to Mayweather’s last 3 fights? Will Schaefer start a new promotional company with Al Haymon? Or will Schaefer move over and build Mayweather Promotions?

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Could Richard Schaefer be collateral damage in the Cold War?

schaefer2By Robbie Bannatyne: There has much been speculation recently about the internal conflict within Golden Boy Promotions, said to be the result of fissures in the relationship between Oscar De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer. At the same time, rumours also abound that De La Hoya has made attempts to bury the hatchet with Bob Arum by going to meet the Top Rank boss at his house recently.

Regardless of whether Bob Arum and Oscar De La Hoya make peace and decide to re-establish a working relationship, the issue between the feuding television networks Showtime and HBO is still not resolved. Still, if De La Hoya and Bob Arum could recapture the bond that was broken throughout their conflict it would certainly be a step in the right direction.

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Schaefer: I have no interest in dealing with Bob Arum

schaefer2By Chris Williams: Earlier this week Golden Boy Promotions president and chief shareholder Oscar De La Hoya said that he has no problems working with Bob Arum of Top Rank, and that he’s interested in putting a fight together between Golden Boy promoted fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Arum’s top fighter Manny Pacquiao.

Well, it looks like that’s not going to happen unless De La Hoya makes a move to convince Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer because he still has no interest in working with Arum. Schaefer is saying he runs Golden Boy unless Oscar wants to fire him.

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In-Fighting: Signs of division in Golden Boy slowly showing up

delahoya92By Raj Parmar: Back in 2007, then super welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya faced off against Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest fights in boxing history. The fight was promoted by Golden Boy Promotions (founded by De La Hoya in 2002) and a heated build up between Oscar and Mayweather ensued, so much that there is still high tension between the two to this day.

Both Oscar and Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer were greatly disappointed when Mayweather pulled out a split decision win, as Oscar and Richard were very close personally and professionally at this point.

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