Quote Originally Posted by mikeeod View Post
Why do you consider Bob a scumbag? The goal of business is to make a profit. Show me a successful businessman n I will show you someone who had to bend the rules.

Do you feel Arum is as shady as King, or screwed over as many fighters as bad as Don did? Do you think Haymon is a nice man who is opposed to playing dirty? Not trying to make this contentious, just never viewed Arum as negatively as you...

Arum is garbage. There's a difference between being a shrewd businessman, and being a crook. Arum is a crook. Corruption, bribing sanctioning officials, money laundering, stealing from fighters (Pacquiao), alleged fight fixing, pathological liar... the guy's a scumbag. Another asshole who just took took took, grabbed every penny with no thought of giving back and trying to grow the sport. It's because of guys like him and King that boxing is a shell of it's former self IMO. I don't know how anybody who respects boxing could not hate a guy like Arum.

Do I think Al Haymon is straight as an arrow? Probably not, I heard he's tricky with his contracts and tends to wrap guys up, but from all accounts he makes the most money for the boxers. I've never heard of any fighters suing Al Haymon or having to bring a third party company in to investigate him to see if he was stealing money from them (like Pac did with Arum).