I've been reading up on Golden Boy Promotions and some of the things that Oscar has been saying recently. GBP came out initially and said that they were here to give fighters a good home and save boxing. Well recently ODLH has come out and said that he will never do a co-promotion with Bob Arum / Top Rank due to the Pac-Man drama and their past beef. Isn't this exactly what GBP wasn't supposed to do? GBP knew that boxing really needed to make the big matchups in order to improve the overall health of the sport and increase visibility. Well vowing to never do business with another big-time promoter is possibly the worst thing for boxing. Basically, we can kiss PacMan-Barrera II, Mosley-Margarito, or Corrales-Castillo III @ 140 or 147 goodbye. It's obvious that the two promoters don't like each other, but GBP came in to the game with good ideals that had a lot of people excited. Now after seeing GBP try to sign Pacquiao and Corrales while they were still clearly under contract with other promoters and Oscar vowing to never do a co-promotion with Top Rank, I'm afraid that they've just become one with the other scumbag promoters and dirty sanctioning bodies. Maybe things will change later, but right now it seems like GBP isn't doing anything great, they are just adding to the problem. I kinda have a feeling that these old fogies (ODLH, Mosley, B-Hop, Barrera) are using GBP to make as much money as they can for themselves before they retire. I mean, Tito-Mosley, give me a fucking break. Is this almost 2007 or is it still 1999?
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