Golden Boy Promotions suspended in New York

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  1. Erratic

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    Mitchell Kane WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

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    Wow.

     
  3. ElTerriblee

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    Oscar De La Hoya will launch a personal investigation to clean up this mess.:bears:
     
  4. Mitchell Kane

    Mitchell Kane WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

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    Should we expect in depth coverage in the pages of The Ring?
     
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    thats a bold and daft maneuver by still new to the game promotional outfit. did they seriously think no one was going to find out?
     
  6. whiskey

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    It's good to have a promoter that cares about boxers becasue they've been in the ring and know what it's like.
     
  7. Mitchell Kane

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    So that move from Top Rank to Golden Boy has really worked out well for Ortiz.

    He's getting shorted on money by GBP and Finkel, who Kimball suggests may have been complicit, has ended his boxing manager/advisor role.

     
  8. Mitchell Kane

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    Thomas Hauser should be all over this story soon.
     
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    Hope lots of guys see this and start jumping ship from GBPs. Hope Oscars greed helps to bring about his downfall and complete failure of his company. As much money as Oscar has made in his career there is simply no excuse for this kind of greed.
     
  10. ElTerriblee

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    I think he broke it a few weeks back. I remember reading about some shady business surrounding the card.
     
  11. Mitchell Kane

    Mitchell Kane WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

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    Yeah, it looks like he did in an article date June 6th.

    http://www.secondsout.com/columns/thomas-hauser/why-

     
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    Hey that's funny. MMA is actually getting legalized in New York and they are looking for a show in the Garden.

    Pretty ironic stuff.
     
  13. adamiw

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    jeee-eeesus.....crafty buggers. I don't know how, as a fighter, you can want to work for an organisation like this.....how can they possibly honestly say they have their fighters' interest at heart.

    HBO should be pissed too....as if they were getting value for money in the first place!
     
  14. Quo Vadimus

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    if there's any justice in the world, Don King will take out a two page ad blasting GBP for their shady practices as it pertains to paying fighters their minimum guarantees.:popcorn:
     
  15. Irish

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    Fucking disgusting. Absolutely. I mean....I hope they get the same treatment that Don King would.
     
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    Good for Oscar !
    Just trying to make a descent living.
     
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  19. Irish

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  22. Irish

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    Oscar makes the living.

    His fighters make the descent.
     
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    If I was Nate Campbell, and my career is over anyway, I´d go after Oscar hard. If Rocky can get 36 million out of the "non-profit" WBC for screwing with his belt, I´m sure Campbell can strip Oscar down to his tranny underwear based on this.
     
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    good point. this might get ugly unless there's a settlement.
     
  25. Double L

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    GBP's probably like, "huh? we do this all the time! what's the matter? we can't rip off our fighters without telling them?" and of course, the managers are complicit. how else could they pull it off?

    Ortiz and Campbell should fire their managers immediately for allowing this to happen.
     
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    This doesn't go on in Europe......:crafty:
     
  27. whiskey

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    The difference is Golden Boy is owned by boxers who know what it's like to be in that ring. Therefore they also know what an acceptable amount of money to to steal from fighters is.

    This is not like some promoter who's never laced them up stealing from boxers.
     
  28. Double L

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    that's a really good point. GBP is a different kind of promoter fundamentally. NYSAC needs to take this into account.
     
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    Hopefully they do.

    Unless the NYSAC is filled with ex-boxers they have no right to tell GPB what an acceptable amount of stealing is.
     
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    It's funny. GBP is actually filled with boxers who are already used to stealing from the purses of their opponents. None of these guys have ever been a fan of parity.

    I can picture Bernard Hopkins crouched in a back room somewhere at GBP headquarters, rolling around in piles of quarters, calling them "my precious", and letting out a loud hiss, anytime he hears Richard Schaeffer tell him he just gave out a signing bonus to another prospect.
     

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