Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
I think TR is right. You should have to have an opponent and contracts signed to secure a date, because in the end the NSAC has to approve the matchup itself (they'd have to approve Floyd's opponent and agree that he was "world class"). So TR for sure does have a point.

But, like everything, it all comes down to money, and Money Mayweather is a huge deal and brings in crazy revenue, so they're going to bend over backwards to appease him and GB. Or else, like Richard Shaeffer said, they can easily take the fight to another location and have that location reap the benefits.
They are arguing procedure and law in the same breath when they aren't intertwined. "It used to be that..." means nothing here. MGM is a company that can set its procedures as they wish, TR doesn't dictate their procedure.

This is what is quickly becoming a huge problem in the sport. Promoters aren't happy being promoters they want to dictate to venues. Networks want to dictate to Promoters. Fighters want to dictate to fighters. Everyone needs to stop trying to rule the world and just do their f'n job. HBO thinks they can pick opponents, who manages the fighters and who promotes them, that's f'd! Every time we support one group over stepping their bounds we empower another to do the same.