Thread: mab update

is barrera considering leaving golden boy promotion, anyone have news about it. i'm just curious, i been out for a month from the boxing world so yea....help guys

He has a stake in GBP, and is set to get a % of the DLH - PBF PPV, why would he leave?

i thought he was piss about the decision in his fight with jmm, and in the interview after the fight he said something about he maybe saying goodbye to goldenboy. maybe i heard wrong though.

I think he said he was considering saying goodbye to boxing after the decision. I don't remember specifics either but nothing has been said of that sort since so you probably just misheard.

yea maybe i just misheard.

but if anyone else have anything about it it'll be nice to know.

Yeah he said he would consider whether to box on or not, there was no mention of leaving Golden Boy.

he did; but i don't think it was meant as leaving GBP as a promoter - when he was pissed about the scoring he was talking about going away with his family etc and maybe saying goodbye to boxing because of the scores, he did say almost word for word "and maybe bye bye to golden boy"

thats right he did say bye bye to goldenboy, but i don't think he meant "goldenboy" i think he meant boxing as a whole.

I don't get why he would leave GBP now. Everyone in Golden Boy gets a % of the PPV money and everyone is set to earn a pretty little penny for the Floyd - Oscar PPV.

i just replayed the fight on dvr.. mab said "maybe i say goodbye to golden boy"

MAB's english isn't that good, what he said was "maybe i say goodbye to golden boy", I think he ment that in the sense as saying good bye to boxing in general but used GBP cause thats who promotes him.....

this is an excerpt from an interview with bob arum on fightnews.com seems like arum knows something.


http://www.fightnews.com/leon23.htm



And Golden Boy?

I don't know if Barrera is still with Golden Boy, he says he isn't but who knows? And Marquez can't draw flies. He is a good fighter but he can't draw flies.

Where did you hear that Barrera is not with Golden Boy anymore?

He has told people. First of all at the post fight interview he said 'maybe it is time for me say bye bye to Golden Boy' and he has told people that he has no contract with Golden Boy. Whether that is true or not, I don't know and I am not interfering. Somebody has to show me that he is not with them before I will sit down with him.

Do you think that is a step in the right direction to maybe make a Barrera-Pacquaiao fight because Oscar is not in the picture?

That is still a very attractive fight; Barrera is still a very attractive fighter.

As far as Top Rank, will you ever put an obstacle to have Golden Boy and Top Rank fighters fight each other?

Absolutely not. I have been in this business for forty years and for much of the time in the business my bitter enemy has been Don King and look how many great fight Don and I have put on together because we are boxing people. We understand that we can fight (between ourselves) but if there is a chance to put a big fight, you cooperate and you put on the big fight. That is how boxing people think. The problem with Golden Boy is that is run by a Swiss banker who is not a boxing guy and he doesn't understand any of that stuff.