yes he is...right in line with guys like mares and bhop. i don't think anyone is going to call him crafty the way they do with hopkins...but u are absolutely right. i don't like it...but it's exactly why i believe he's going to make things very tough for floyd.

Poffy, while I agree wholeheartedly with everything you've stated here, the bottom line fact is that in order for Arum to get 100% behind a black fighter that fighter has to have skills like Floyd or punching power like Tyson with a super big mouth and libido so that Bob can market him properly.

Arum is unwilling to go all out marketing Brad like he did Pac for two reasons: he is not a big puncher, he doesn't have a huge following or opposition lined up against him/The Villian. Bradley is a supernice Christian black man without KO power and without a big mouth and he will not play the Villian in order to sell himself out either.

If Bob had Broner then you can best believe he'd be marketing him as better than Floyd and some sort of KO machine much in the same fashion as he did with Pac.

this was a while before any Pac fight.

Possibly but I'm expecting golden boy to find someone that can do their best Joe cortez impression to keep the action clean and to favor mayweather. Let's face it, Canelo vs Floyd is now the biggest fight out there now besides a rematch with marquez. Even then I think Canelo would trump marquez as far as sales go against mayweather.

no...it was around the same time bradley decided to let his contract expire with shaw...but you don't make a decision like that without having some sort of back up. he didn't speak of it publicly but i believe that was the main reason he wanted out.

wasnt he sued by shaw because he didn't fight khan?

shaw threatened with a lawsuit but he had no grounds. if he did...toprank wouldn't have touched him.

To make Bradley the next big thing it would take Bob Arum, God, all the angels above, and maybe the tooth fairy. Bradley is just not PPV material unless he is fighting someone who is a PPV attraction.

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He didn't do it because of business, it did it because he was afraid to lose, I think this quote says it all

"What if I lose then I am out the sweep-stake to fight pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao for 7.5 million dollars?"

He got his money, and he got shelved.

I don't think it takes that much, you put him in with a couple of soft touches with not so amazing chins, shut down the whole God crap, make him call out Mayweather and call Mayweather all sorts and there's the hype. Styles make fights and he just needs someone reckless running into his punches lol, Brandon Rios vs Bradley would be one hell of a fight, since Rios would leave no stoned unturned, and after he is beaten focus will shift to Bradley.

As to promoting a black fighter, Arum is a smart guy, but he always seems to have these fighters that come ahead of the black fighters, Oscar De La Hoya, Pac. If he wanted to am sure he could, he just chooses not to to protect his cash cows.

he had thee best fighter in all of boxing when he had floyd mayweather. he himself said that floyd was better than them all. floyd has now proven to be a cash cow. he's always had the skills to be that. with all of that being said...arum still put him on the back burner. i can't see it being any better for any other black fighter with arum.

it just doesn't make sense why he didn't even attempt to