That fist sentence is just stupid. When does a manager take money outside of a percentage of the purse? In actual fact, this is also not true. It's in his contract that the fighter is responsible for his expenses.
Interpret how you want, but I see it as a clear conflict of interest. He calls himself an Adviser acting as the fighter's manager taking 15% of the purse. He also operates as the promotional arm choosing who the fighter fights. This is what is known as a conflict of interest under the Act. Is not only the fights Haymon gets a piece of, it's everything his boxing career that generates money, endorsements and appearances, movies etc. Kind of sounds like he wants to be the WWE. oh and get this her also puts into the agreement, even if the contract is found to be illegal, he still gets paid. I don't see how that works but he puts it in there.
Again, I don't care what the motives of GBP are. I'm just saying they are not wrong.
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