Arum kotzt sich aus:
"I found out for the first time today that the WBC wanted to call this an elimination match to get a sanction fee. The last fight we allowed them to call it a WBC International with the total sanction fees of $5,000 and that's fine. But they have nothing to do with this fight. Nobody wants this fight as an elimination. Neither fighter and certainly, I'm the damned promoter and nobody's even talked to me about it, and there is no way that I'm going to let these two fighters -- who are hardworking fighters, who bleed in the ring, who come with everything -- pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for bullshit.
"[WBC President Jose Sulaiman] could call it whatever the hell he wants, but he ain't extracting hundreds of thousands of dollars from these kids, period!
"It seems to me that in the last promotion I did on pay-per-view, Rahman and Maskaev, a fighter named Humberto Soto fought on that card and paid a sanction fee for an elimination bout. That's the SAME WEIGHT as these guys are, 130, so how is it another f___ing elimation? This is a damned disgrace."
Hier der gesamte Artikel:
http://www.fightnews.com/freitag242.htm
Man mag von Arum halten, was mann will. Er ist sicher auch kein Heiliger, aber da spricht er ein wahres Wort. Da boxt der Soto eine Elimination und nur weil dann zwei größere Namen kommen, ist die nichts mehr wert und er darf sich hinten anstellen und hoffen, dass die beiden Herren Stars auf den shot verzichten. Zudem brauchen weder Morales noch Pacman eine elimination, wenn sie an einen Titelfight herankommen wollen. Barrera hat selbst schon laut über ein Pacman-Rematch nachgedacht. Das ist pure Geldschneiderei vom WBC.
Zeig es der Wanze, Bobby.
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