What does a post-Bob Arum boxing world look like?

[Kirkland Laing]

Does anybody know what's happening with PBC? Thomas Hauser wrote a couple of great articles about Al Haymon a while ago but since then I haven't seen anything really good. I know the fund that put the money up for PBC are being sued by their investors for basically throwing hundreds of millions of dollars away but there's no news on whether that's going to affect Haymon and no news on how he's doing at the minute. He's got a lot of fighters and I'm sure a lot of them are not getting the number of fights he promised them. Something has to happen there eventually.

A lot of guys want out because they aren't making money because they aren't fighting. My friend called that turn three years ago.

Nobody brings along talent as well as Top Rank. Arum doesn't affect that too much but guys like Bruce Trampler and Brad Goodman do and they are not getting any younger themselves.

I agree with you about Top Rank. Bruce Trampler has been an amazing matchmaker for Arum but somebody will come along and take his place. I reckon Arum's son-in-law will just keep on keeping on, Top Rank the company know what they're doing. Eventually they'll want to stream their fighters direct to the consumer I think. That seems to be the way things are going. If Haymon's firm does fall apart I think they'll go after a bunch of his fighters.