By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Bob Arum is better at promoting fights than I am at anything I’ve ever tried.
He’s got a track record that stretches farther than my 45 years, and his contractual relationships with guys like Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley, among others, seem to indicate that he’ll be relevant on the sport’s top shelf for just as long as he wants to be.
But for crying out loud, he’s got to get over this Mayweather thing.
I mean, I get it. They used to work together, now they don’t. He used to say Floyd was one of the best fighters he’d ever seen, but now he’s a coward focused only on money and remaining unbeaten.
It’s a lot like commentary that could be applied to any relationship when it veers from hot to cold.
What starts out as “She’s wonderful and attractive and I hang on her every word” quickly deteriorates to “I was never that into her in the first place, I just wanted to get in good with her sister.”
Still, after a while, those principals do move on to other things.
That doesn’t seem to be the case with Bob, though.
Wherever and whenever he gets a chance, there’s either a cleverly veiled or completely outspoken shot across the Mayweather bow – and it continued well into the night on Saturday at the MGM Grand, after Pacquiao and Bradley went another 12 entertaining rounds. [Click Here To Read More]
He’s got a track record that stretches farther than my 45 years, and his contractual relationships with guys like Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley, among others, seem to indicate that he’ll be relevant on the sport’s top shelf for just as long as he wants to be.
But for crying out loud, he’s got to get over this Mayweather thing.
I mean, I get it. They used to work together, now they don’t. He used to say Floyd was one of the best fighters he’d ever seen, but now he’s a coward focused only on money and remaining unbeaten.
It’s a lot like commentary that could be applied to any relationship when it veers from hot to cold.
What starts out as “She’s wonderful and attractive and I hang on her every word” quickly deteriorates to “I was never that into her in the first place, I just wanted to get in good with her sister.”
Still, after a while, those principals do move on to other things.
That doesn’t seem to be the case with Bob, though.
Wherever and whenever he gets a chance, there’s either a cleverly veiled or completely outspoken shot across the Mayweather bow – and it continued well into the night on Saturday at the MGM Grand, after Pacquiao and Bradley went another 12 entertaining rounds. [Click Here To Read More]
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