"What We Know About Al Haymon": Part 5of 5 out now! (updated 3/25/16 at 12:34pm et)
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Al's ability to network & maneuver at such a high level with his reserved demeanor is absolutely amazing.
However, he is as social as he needs to be & knows how to work people. Doesn't really value personal relationships, which makes him very effective at what he does. It's all business to him.
It was a real good read, despite the fact that I would rather they leave the man alone. It's obvious he values his privacy.
Uncle Al has a lot of knowledge that he has acquired over the years that he will never share. Knowledge is power.
I would love to sit in a conversation between Al Haymon & Marvin Harrison.
However, he is as social as he needs to be & knows how to work people. Doesn't really value personal relationships, which makes him very effective at what he does. It's all business to him.
It was a real good read, despite the fact that I would rather they leave the man alone. It's obvious he values his privacy.
Uncle Al has a lot of knowledge that he has acquired over the years that he will never share. Knowledge is power.
I would love to sit in a conversation between Al Haymon & Marvin Harrison.
#SOG_soldier
New York knicks and phoenix suns stan
Honorable sjknikka that aint no answer.
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
Hauser... Aka HBO puppet.
bigbadbossup2012
Biggest baddest boss
Love it,fun fact: all the dudes complaining about being shunned are CAC
Yup a lot of insecure CAC's and Jews and a lot of self hating Porch Monkeys
a few of them are on this board...
we know who they are
espn DAN RAFAEL with his byatch azz talking about AL didn't invite me he don't like me...
why in the fukk would AL invite Dan who has been wined and dined by BOB ARUM to write slanderous shyt about AL
he ain't no JOURNALIST
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malbaker86
Gators
Good read
LeVraiPapi
Redemption is Coming
These media people smh. My dude said Dan was digging dirt on Haymon and we all know Arum is behind all that. How can you basically say that he's wrong for not playing along. People gotta understand not every Black man with money is stupid and reckless lol
Kevin Iole wrote on article about that too breh
You called it out immediately
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March 22, 2016
That little matter of disclosing you’re a paid HBO Sports consultant …
If you’ve been a boxing fan for any length of time, you may remember a lengthy series of articles written by Thomas Hauser for various websites that repeatedly took HBO Sports to task for what Hauser believed were mistakes in the network’s handling of its boxing franchise.
In stories that relied excessively on anonymous sources, Hauser heavily criticized ex-HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg and his regime.
Greenburg was fired in 2011, and ultimately replaced by Ken Hershman. Hershman resigned at the end of 2015 and his role was taken over by Peter Nelson.
There has been a stunning lack of commentary from Hauser on the Hershman and Nelson regimes, and it has nothing to do with the fact that they were run so much better than Greenburg’s.
Rather, not long after Greenburg was fired, HBO Sports hired Hauser as a paid consultant.
It sure looks to all the world like HBO paid for his silence. He’s written numerous articles since, and has been given access not provided to other journalists, and the tone and tenor of those articles has been dramatically different than they were in the Greenburg Era.
HBO has had a very poor start to 2016, with a series of mismatches, but Hauser has, at least for the time being, chosen to ignore that.
This is significant now because you may have seen, or will soon see, some or all of a series of stories Hauser is writing for Ring’s website on Al Haymon, the founder of the Premier Boxing Champions. Part I of the series is here.
HBO Sports has been at odds with Haymon since early 2013, when Haymon’s highest-profile client, Floyd Mayweather Jr., left HBO to sign with Showtime. Hershman, the HBO Sports president at the time, banned any Haymon-contracted fighters from appearing on HBO.
Ring, of course, is owned by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. And Golden Boy Promotions has filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against Haymon.
The merits of Golden Boy’s lawsuit, and a similar one against Haymon filed by Top Rank, will be determined by a court.
Hauser’s ties to HBO and Golden Boy certainly make a fair-minded person question his motives in his series on Haymon. At the very least, a disclaimer should be placed at the bottom of Hauser’s stories on the matter, alerting readers to the conflict (or potential conflict, if you prefer).
Haymon is certainly fair game in his position as boxing’s leading power broker, and if he’s doing any harm to the boxers he manages, that should be exposed.
Forget about boxing for a second and imagine that CNN’s Van Jones, an ardent and outspoken critic of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, was suddenly hired as a consultant by the Trump Organization.
And further, imagine that Jones remained in his position on CNN, but that he suddenly changed his position on Trump and no longer was critical of him.
It wouldn’t be well-regarded, that’s for certain.
Since the PBC began over a year ago, there have been many news stories about its viability as an ongoing concern. The belief in the industry from promoters, many of whom are business competitors of Haymon’s, is that the PBC is hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate.
That’s certainly news, but does is it such a huge issue to boxing fans that a fight manager/television packager such as Haymon is losing (if indeed the reports are true) millions of investors dollars?
If Haymon’s making bad fights, he should be called on it.
If he’s treating his fighters poorly, it should be reported.
If he’s breaking the law and serving as a manager and promoter at the same time, in violation of the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act, it needs to be documented.
I don’t get too carried away with all the hullabaloo about Haymon and how much money his company might be losing. He doesn’t speak to the media (And I wish he did), but the fact that he doesn’t speak is one of the reasons why he’s disliked by so many in the boxing press.
He’s putting on a lot of fights, some outstanding, some horrific. There is a lot more for boxing fans to choose from since he created the PBC, and to my mind, that’s good. More fighters are getting work, and that’s good, as well.
Hauser’s sure-to-be-exhaustive series may uncover examples of unethical, or worse, behavior on Haymon’s. Part I certainly did not, however. It documented at length that Haymon doesn’t speak to the media and is generally a secretive person. It had some background on his personal life that casual fans may not have known.
It certainly didn’t break any ground. We’ll see how the rest of the series goes.
It sure would be nice, though, if the guy writing the series, the same guy being paid by HBO; the same one writing for an outlet owned by someone suing Haymon, would disclose those ties.
I guess that would be too much to ask, though.
That little matter of disclosing you’re a paid HBO Sports consultant ...
Kevin Iole got eeemmmm
The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Not sure if I learned anything important that I didn't already know. I always thought it was interesting to see two or more people graduate from the same high school at different times.
Kevin Iole wrote on article about that too breh
You called it out immediately
Kevin Iole
RSS Archive
My work, my likes, my thoughts and my life, all here in one place. Ask Kevin
March 22, 2016
That little matter of disclosing you’re a paid HBO Sports consultant …
If you’ve been a boxing fan for any length of time, you may remember a lengthy series of articles written by Thomas Hauser for various websites that repeatedly took HBO Sports to task for what Hauser believed were mistakes in the network’s handling of its boxing franchise.
In stories that relied excessively on anonymous sources, Hauser heavily criticized ex-HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg and his regime.
Greenburg was fired in 2011, and ultimately replaced by Ken Hershman. Hershman resigned at the end of 2015 and his role was taken over by Peter Nelson.
There has been a stunning lack of commentary from Hauser on the Hershman and Nelson regimes, and it has nothing to do with the fact that they were run so much better than Greenburg’s.
Rather, not long after Greenburg was fired, HBO Sports hired Hauser as a paid consultant.
It sure looks to all the world like HBO paid for his silence. He’s written numerous articles since, and has been given access not provided to other journalists, and the tone and tenor of those articles has been dramatically different than they were in the Greenburg Era.
HBO has had a very poor start to 2016, with a series of mismatches, but Hauser has, at least for the time being, chosen to ignore that.
This is significant now because you may have seen, or will soon see, some or all of a series of stories Hauser is writing for Ring’s website on Al Haymon, the founder of the Premier Boxing Champions. Part I of the series is here.
HBO Sports has been at odds with Haymon since early 2013, when Haymon’s highest-profile client, Floyd Mayweather Jr., left HBO to sign with Showtime. Hershman, the HBO Sports president at the time, banned any Haymon-contracted fighters from appearing on HBO.
Ring, of course, is owned by Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions. And Golden Boy Promotions has filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against Haymon.
The merits of Golden Boy’s lawsuit, and a similar one against Haymon filed by Top Rank, will be determined by a court.
Hauser’s ties to HBO and Golden Boy certainly make a fair-minded person question his motives in his series on Haymon. At the very least, a disclaimer should be placed at the bottom of Hauser’s stories on the matter, alerting readers to the conflict (or potential conflict, if you prefer).
Haymon is certainly fair game in his position as boxing’s leading power broker, and if he’s doing any harm to the boxers he manages, that should be exposed.
Forget about boxing for a second and imagine that CNN’s Van Jones, an ardent and outspoken critic of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, was suddenly hired as a consultant by the Trump Organization.
And further, imagine that Jones remained in his position on CNN, but that he suddenly changed his position on Trump and no longer was critical of him.
It wouldn’t be well-regarded, that’s for certain.
Since the PBC began over a year ago, there have been many news stories about its viability as an ongoing concern. The belief in the industry from promoters, many of whom are business competitors of Haymon’s, is that the PBC is hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate.
That’s certainly news, but does is it such a huge issue to boxing fans that a fight manager/television packager such as Haymon is losing (if indeed the reports are true) millions of investors dollars?
If Haymon’s making bad fights, he should be called on it.
If he’s treating his fighters poorly, it should be reported.
If he’s breaking the law and serving as a manager and promoter at the same time, in violation of the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act, it needs to be documented.
I don’t get too carried away with all the hullabaloo about Haymon and how much money his company might be losing. He doesn’t speak to the media (And I wish he did), but the fact that he doesn’t speak is one of the reasons why he’s disliked by so many in the boxing press.
He’s putting on a lot of fights, some outstanding, some horrific. There is a lot more for boxing fans to choose from since he created the PBC, and to my mind, that’s good. More fighters are getting work, and that’s good, as well.
Hauser’s sure-to-be-exhaustive series may uncover examples of unethical, or worse, behavior on Haymon’s. Part I certainly did not, however. It documented at length that Haymon doesn’t speak to the media and is generally a secretive person. It had some background on his personal life that casual fans may not have known.
It certainly didn’t break any ground. We’ll see how the rest of the series goes.
It sure would be nice, though, if the guy writing the series, the same guy being paid by HBO; the same one writing for an outlet owned by someone suing Haymon, would disclose those ties.
I guess that would be too much to ask, though.
That little matter of disclosing you’re a paid HBO Sports consultant ...
