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Golden Boy may be done soon if Canelo gets outa this contract.
https://www.gabeoppenheim.com/fight-fables--foibles/the-case-of-canelo-vs-the-golden-boy
Canelo has secured the services of an independent lawyer -- either to re-negotiate his Golden Boy deal or to ensure it's properly enforced or to cut a deal in which Canelo buys out the remainder of the contract.
The lawyer might wind up doing all three and in that order. Someone ball-parked a buyout figure to me of $20-30 million -- but only if Canelo's lawyer can show Golden Boy has been acting in bad faith or not living up to its side of the deal. And the figures obviously could vary greatly based on fight outcomes (or, heaven forfend, injury).
Sadly, this is where Oscar's history of substance abuse has legal implication. I really respect the way Oscar has treated me personally. And addiction is a disease. But Canelo was reportedly embarrassed by a few instances in which Oscar was a no show at his pressers, ostensibly because Oscar was impaired or hung-over. If it can be proven he was indeed absent for that reason, Canelo will get to pay far less to buy out his deal -- because it portends greater difficulty for Oscar should the case be litigated.
Canelo has made overtures, through intermediaries, to two well-known promoters -- which efforts were likely designed and executed with sufficient subtlety so as to skirt tortious interference.
An executive with one promoter, after I texted him about the outreach, replied, "No idea about that." Maybe the outreach was so subtle those on the other end didn't even know they were being -- quietly but desperately -- sought (#InsidetheRopesInception
https://www.gabeoppenheim.com/fight-fables--foibles/the-case-of-canelo-vs-the-golden-boy
Canelo has secured the services of an independent lawyer -- either to re-negotiate his Golden Boy deal or to ensure it's properly enforced or to cut a deal in which Canelo buys out the remainder of the contract.
The lawyer might wind up doing all three and in that order. Someone ball-parked a buyout figure to me of $20-30 million -- but only if Canelo's lawyer can show Golden Boy has been acting in bad faith or not living up to its side of the deal. And the figures obviously could vary greatly based on fight outcomes (or, heaven forfend, injury).
Sadly, this is where Oscar's history of substance abuse has legal implication. I really respect the way Oscar has treated me personally. And addiction is a disease. But Canelo was reportedly embarrassed by a few instances in which Oscar was a no show at his pressers, ostensibly because Oscar was impaired or hung-over. If it can be proven he was indeed absent for that reason, Canelo will get to pay far less to buy out his deal -- because it portends greater difficulty for Oscar should the case be litigated.
Canelo has made overtures, through intermediaries, to two well-known promoters -- which efforts were likely designed and executed with sufficient subtlety so as to skirt tortious interference.
An executive with one promoter, after I texted him about the outreach, replied, "No idea about that." Maybe the outreach was so subtle those on the other end didn't even know they were being -- quietly but desperately -- sought (#InsidetheRopesInception
Damn
Tunde won me over a little bit with this interview. I still got Kovalev stopping Yarde though.
Biggest fight coming this month in my opinion. August 24, I can't wait
Biggest fight coming this month in my opinion. August 24, I can't wait
Manny Steward is getting a street named after him in Detroit.
Well deserved and long overdue.
Well deserved and long overdue.
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The homie from Trill Boxing Talk is high on Vergil Ortiz so I'll check him out.
Exclusive: Anthony Joshua to face Andy Ruiz Jr in Saudi Arabia on December 7 in £70m contest
9 AUGUST 2019 • 2:43AM
Anthony Joshua will be heading to the Middle East on December 7 as the deposed heavyweight boxing champion attempts to wrest back three of the four principal world title belts from Andy Ruiz Jr on neutral territory,The Telegraphcan reveal.
It is understood an official announcement will be made today confirming that Joshua will face Ruiz for the IBF, WBA and WBO titles in Riyadh, with Saudi Arabian sports entities having put up close to 100 million US dollars for the contest to take place there, according to sources. DAZN, in the USA, and Sky Box Office, in the UK, will be airing the championship fight.
There were other options. An offer was tabled by the Dubai authorities while Cardiff's Principality Stadium was also in the running for the much-anticipated rematch after Ruiz stopped Joshua at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 1 in one of the most seismic upsets ever witnessedin the history of heavyweight boxing.
On a dramatic night, having been dropped to the canvas himself by Joshua in the third round, Ruiz then responded by felling the Briton twice before referee Mike Griffin waved the fight off in the seventh round, Joshua having been felled twice more, and, in his view, not fit to continue.
Ruiz had taken the fight on five-and-a-half weeks notice, after Joshua's original opponent, Jarrell Miller, had tested positive for three banned substances in random tests leading up to the contest.
In the last 11 months, Saudi Arabia has hosted two major bouts involving high-profile British boxers. In September last year the World Boxing Super Series super-middleweight tournament final between Callum Smith and George Groves took place in Jeddah, won by Smith, along with Amir Khan’s last contest against the Australian Billy Dib in July.
It is expected that British heavyweight Tyson Fury's next contest will be announced imminently for September 14 in Las Vegas against Sweden's Otto Wallin.
9 AUGUST 2019 • 2:43AM
Anthony Joshua will be heading to the Middle East on December 7 as the deposed heavyweight boxing champion attempts to wrest back three of the four principal world title belts from Andy Ruiz Jr on neutral territory,The Telegraphcan reveal.
It is understood an official announcement will be made today confirming that Joshua will face Ruiz for the IBF, WBA and WBO titles in Riyadh, with Saudi Arabian sports entities having put up close to 100 million US dollars for the contest to take place there, according to sources. DAZN, in the USA, and Sky Box Office, in the UK, will be airing the championship fight.
There were other options. An offer was tabled by the Dubai authorities while Cardiff's Principality Stadium was also in the running for the much-anticipated rematch after Ruiz stopped Joshua at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 1 in one of the most seismic upsets ever witnessedin the history of heavyweight boxing.
On a dramatic night, having been dropped to the canvas himself by Joshua in the third round, Ruiz then responded by felling the Briton twice before referee Mike Griffin waved the fight off in the seventh round, Joshua having been felled twice more, and, in his view, not fit to continue.
Ruiz had taken the fight on five-and-a-half weeks notice, after Joshua's original opponent, Jarrell Miller, had tested positive for three banned substances in random tests leading up to the contest.
In the last 11 months, Saudi Arabia has hosted two major bouts involving high-profile British boxers. In September last year the World Boxing Super Series super-middleweight tournament final between Callum Smith and George Groves took place in Jeddah, won by Smith, along with Amir Khan’s last contest against the Australian Billy Dib in July.
It is expected that British heavyweight Tyson Fury's next contest will be announced imminently for September 14 in Las Vegas against Sweden's Otto Wallin.
Whoa wait a a minute.
Rougarou is withdrawing from the WBSS???
Rougarou is withdrawing from the WBSS???
Bernard Hopkins may have been onto something too. lol
Yo on this DAZN card they got a 17 yr old kid going up against a grown ass man 
Edit: the kid stopped him in the 1st rd.
Edit: the kid stopped him in the 1st rd.
Okay, I'm officially on the Vergil Ortiz Jr. bandwagon.
He demolished Orozco. Buddy got some skills.