Is Frank Warren losing his grip? good read!

[Kirkland Laing]

It all depends on how serious other people are about competing with Frank. Haye and Hatton's promotional outfits are one-man operations designed to make as much money as possible from existing hot commodities. Expanding from promoting themselves to other people is where it starts to get tricky, expensive too. Haye's outfit will probably go the way of Lion Promotions. The question is whether Hatton will feel like putting the effort in when he retires, and it's a full-time job, or whether he'll keep his fifty million plus in the bank.

[HattonTheHammer]

It all depends on how serious other people are about competing with Frank. Haye and Hatton's promotional outfits are one-man operations designed to make as much money as possible from existing hot commodities. Expanding from promoting themselves to other people is where it starts to get tricky, expensive too. Haye's outfit will probably go the way of Lion Promotions. The question is whether Hatton will feel like putting the effort in when he retires, and it's a full-time job, or whether he'll keep his fifty million plus in the bank.

lennox retired with a small fortune for him to enjoy with his girlfriend/boyfriend(lets not start that again) yet found himself regularly commentating in the states and helping to promote various boxing events.

Does he need the money....of course not, the guy is a multi millionaire that gets paid peanuts for these sort of outings.

But its the love of the sport and the grip it has on you that keeps bringing lennox back.

Sadly as in the case of tyson, holyfield that grip can often have its downsides

[GAME]

This is the man that held back calzaghe from going to america until he was 37 yet chose to stick frank bruno in the ring with mike tyson for a second time.

Of course he aint all the ticket!!!

In the animal world thats known as milking a cow and taking a lamb to the slaughter

[NUCLEAR BULL]

can't say i feel sorry for him..............yes he's run the british boxing scene for years, yes he's put on some cracking nights of boxing.........but he's always been out to put one over boxing fans, thing of all the cannon fodder he's fed calzaghe, and told us there world class only to be 1 dimentional punch bags, he was heading to do the same with hatton but ricky jumped ship before warren got his poison in him........... he now does the same with khan, having him fight guys that are way to small, and cant punch...as a result khan thinks he's the best thing since ali, he'll get nailed the first true top fighter he meets.. the simple fact is boxer know if there with warren they'll be fighting at piss poor level, earning warren good money and never get the respect they crave............... like calzaghe.......... good fighters want to hit the big stage, hattons fights have been in vegas where he's now a big name............... he earned as much in the mayweather fight as calzaghes earned in his whole carreer and hattons respected, a big name, and heading for more big bouts... if he stayed with warren he would have continued selling out in mancester fighting john from down the road

[Violent Demise]

Exactly,i don't see the need for Amir to be UK based at all anymore when everything he needs ie fights are stateside!!
He should swerve Warren after the Gomez fight and go for his dream imo.

I actually can't even believe he's fighting Gomez. Am i the only one who see's the risk and no reward problem with this fight?

Gomez is unpredictable. I wouldn't put it past him to pull something spectacular out of his washed up arse.

The Gomez that beat Arthur is gone. This current one is done. Con will stop him early. And than we'll here more garbage on how Con is the future.

[ono]

Exactly,i don't see the need for Amir to be UK based at all anymore when everything he needs ie fights are stateside!!
He should swerve Warren after the Gomez fight and go for his dream imo.

I actually can't even believe he's fighting Gomez. Am i the only one who see's the risk and no reward problem with this fight?

Gomez is unpredictable. I wouldn't put it past him to pull something spectacular out of his washed up arse.

The Gomez that beat Arthur is gone. This current one is done. Con will stop him early. And than we'll here more garbage on how Con is the future.

Probably so.

Anyways i think i would laugh if he got lucky.

[Fenster]

can't say i feel sorry for him..............yes he's run the british boxing scene for years, yes he's put on some cracking nights of boxing.........but he's always been out to put one over boxing fans, thing of all the cannon fodder he's fed calzaghe, and told us there world class only to be 1 dimentional punch bags, he was heading to do the same with hatton but ricky jumped ship before warren got his poison in him........... he now does the same with khan, having him fight guys that are way to small, and cant punch...as a result khan thinks he's the best thing since ali, he'll get nailed the first true top fighter he meets.. the simple fact is boxer know if there with warren they'll be fighting at piss poor level, earning warren good money and never get the respect they crave............... like calzaghe.......... good fighters want to hit the big stage, hattons fights have been in vegas where he's now a big name............... he earned as much in the mayweather fight as calzaghes earned in his whole carreer and hattons respected, a big name, and heading for more big bouts... if he stayed with warren he would have continued selling out in mancester fighting john from down the road

Steady now, Hatton don't like fighting his fellow countrymen.. especially if they call him names.

[Mikkel_K]

It was a good read and an interesting premise. But what about the current crop of British amateurs? Am I right in saying that some of those look _pretty_ good indeed? Frankie Gavin?

Olympics are coming up, and after that Warren just might have one or two new cash cows stepping up to the plate in two-three years. Or?