Talk your sh1t Mr. Spence aka FREE AGENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Spence Not Interested In Signing With Arum, De La Hoya or Hearn
By Keith Idec
You can’t blame Bob Arum, Oscar De La Hoya and Eddie Hearn for wanting to spend some of their vast resources on signing Errol Spence Jr. to a promotional contract.
The likeable, skillful welterweight is an emerging star who’s in his physical prime and knocks out opponents. Spence appreciates their interest, but the undefeated IBF 147-pound champion simply isn’t interested in making a contractual commitment to a promoter.
The 28-year-old Spence (24-0, 21 KOs), who’s advised by Al Haymon, works with promoters Tom Brown and Lou DiBella on a bout-by-bout basis.
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Brown and DiBella are among the promoters that market shows featuring fighters affiliated with Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions organization. Brown’s TGB Promotions put together the card headlined by Spence’s first-round knockout of overmatched mandatory challenger Carlos Ocampo (22-1, 13 KOs) on Saturday night in Frisco, Texas.
Beyond that, though, Spence told a small group of reporters Tuesday at a Manhattan restaurant that he won’t sign with a promoter. The powerful southpaw from DeSoto, Texas, is satisfied with how he is being both marketed and compensated.
“I feel like basically Showtime is my promoter right now,” said Spence, whose past three fights have been broadcast by Showtime. “They’re promoting me. They’re promoting me, so I feel like if I don’t have to [sign with a promoter], why do it? I mean, I’m fighting on TV, I’m getting the main slots and basically doing what I wanna do, basically without have somebody basically telling me who I’m fighting or where I’m fighting at, things like that.
“Basically, my manager comes to me and says, ‘Do you wanna fight here?’ Or, ‘Do you wanna fight this opponent?’ And I have say-so in it. Everything’s been going good now. I’m getting publicized. I’ve been fighting on TV. My name’s been out there. Why change something? Everything’s going good. Everything’s running smoothly and I don’t believe I need to change anything or I need to add anybody to my team right now. … What could I possibly need a promoter for me to do that I’m not already getting done with the team I have now?”
“Golden Boy was pursuing me. Top Rank was pursuing me. But they get that from my interviews. I tell them I don’t need a promoter, I’m not looking for a promoter. You know, we’re setting a new trend where you can do stuff without a promoter. And just the fact that everybody feels like you need a promoter to be this top guy, you really don’t.”
Oscar De La Hoya thinks Spence is just outright wrong.
“I have have response to him and to tell him that he’s wrong,” said De La Hoya, on Wednesday afternoon to Boxing Scene.
“I strongly believe that a fighter needs a promoter to guide your career. You can have a manager, you can have an adviser. He thinks Showtime is promoting him and that’s not the case.
“You need a promoter to move you along and eventually become a pay-per-view fighter, which he will never be without a promoter.”
De La Hoya would claim that even though he had a world wide platform following his 1992 Olympic performance, he still needed Bob Arum.
“Exactly and look, my case was totally different because I already had that world-wide platform when I won the gold medal. So it was easier to promote me,” said De La Hoya.
“But you’re right, if I didn’t have Arum to guide my career, who knows where I would be. Who knows where I would be if I had a manager/adviser guiding my career.”
De La Hoya continued, “See, a promoter promotes you. A promoter has a plan, a long-term plan to eventually make you a pay-per-view star and look, there’s a reason why there’s one superstar in boxing – and that’s (Saul) ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. There’s a reason why there’s only one fighter in boxing that sells pay-per-view – and that’s ‘Canelo’ Alvarez.
http://www.fightsports.tv/de-la-hoya-blasts-spences-feelings-on-promoters/
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