Is Bob Arum ruining boxing?

[Rantcatrat]

He's also talking of having Marquez against Peterson in the Dallas Cowboys stadium, which would be huge for the careers of Marquez and Peterson.

And as I've mentioned before, fighters continue to sign with him. Over and over. There are other options so they wouldn't be doing that if he wasn't doing a good job for them.

Promoters are snakes in general, of course, and I have a problem with keeping fights in house to the detriment of good match-ups.

However, as far as doing his job as a promoter, what's he hired to do, he's probably the best in the game right now.

As far as Floyd v. Manny, if you can't see both parties are to blame, you're going blind.

[JazzWolf]

Arum wants Mayweather vs Pacquiao to happen. Any highly influential boxing promoter would. But, like Don King, he likes money more. He realizes that they are the biggest cash cows in the sport and he wants to drain as much $$$ from them as possible before their years catch up to them. Arum and the Boxing industry will make more revenue from multiple monumental fights including Pac or Mayweather than just one mega monumental fight between them. We won't see a May vs Paq until every possible lucrative challenger is wiped out or until they lose.

[MMASUX]

All boxing promoters are a little crooked, Bob just seems to be more than the others. I do think he is ruining boxing, and not just with Pac-Mayweather. All these in house fights are bad for boxing. Yea we may get a good fight, but it denies all the other possibilities. He's going to milk Manny dry, then move along to the next one. Pac-Mayweather will never happen because of one reason.....Bob Arum.

[jon09]

He is defiantly not helping it right now. He is the main reason why the mega fight is not happening.