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He does it especially for fighters like Danny Garcia,Adrien Broner,and Daniel Jacobs.I believe he finds someone sweet for almost all his fighters to fight.

I've known this since the beginning of PBC, hell even when Haymon fighters were still fighting on HBO they were getting soft touch opponents for way, way more money than they should've been making.

What about Frampton v LSC? Yeah a lot of Haymon fighters tend to go through the motions but I don't for a second think he is the be all and end all of all decisions made! He provides a platform and the fighters under his banner can step up or just tread water. I think he sorts out the individual. If he could make big big fights he would, I don't doubt that!

He's just spoiled guys too much. Who would want to fight a tough opponent where you may lose for 2 Million when you could make 1.5 Million to beat up a no hoper.

psychod1986 wrote:Al Haymon loves to cherry pick and shop for most his fighters.

Does anybody truly understand what his role is supposed to be?

Haymon's cards suck with rare exceptions. His fighters get spoiled with too high purses and have no financial reasons to take on good opposition. Also, his top fighters fight once or twice a year only.

Does anybody know what "official" role Haymon fulfils?

Cherry picking easy fights is something that is done by almost every promotional outfit on a worldwide level. It's a problem endemic to the sport.

Enlightened-One wrote:Does anybody know what "official" role Haymon fulfils?

Officially, he is an adviser, but that fake title is just used to hide his managerial and even promotional functions.

marvelous marv wrote:Cherry picking easy fights is something that is done by almost every promotional outfit on a worldwide level. It's a problem endemic to the sport.

Yes, but Haymon went to an extreme with that.

boxing_rocks wrote:

Enlightened-One wrote:Does anybody know what "official" role Haymon fulfils?

Officially, he is an adviser, but that fake title is just used to hide his managerial and even promotional functions.

It certainly appears that way...

Enlightened-One wrote:

psychod1986 wrote:Al Haymon loves to cherry pick and shop for most his fighters.

Does anybody truly understand what his role is supposed to be?

Exactly!! It's hardly earth shattering news is it - promoter makes easy fights and protects his fighters.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Enlightened-One wrote:

psychod1986 wrote:Al Haymon loves to cherry pick and shop for most his fighters.

Does anybody truly understand what his role is supposed to be?

Exactly!! It's hardly earth shattering news is it - promoter makes easy fights and protects his fighters.

It used to be that guys get easy fights and protected until they can get their title shot. Now they get protected as "Champion" too.

gilgamesh wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Enlightened-One wrote:
Does anybody truly understand what his role is supposed to be?

Exactly!! It's hardly earth shattering news is it - promoter makes easy fights and protects his fighters.

It used to be that guys get easy fights and protected until they can get their title shot. Now they get protected as "Champion" too.

Well, that's what happens when there's no real desire to unify, and the sanctioning bodies themselves aid this situation as they can get more fights for their titles and therefore more fees.

This headline is complete crap. He tossed Sammy Vasquez and Feliz Diaz in against each other. Neither of them are chopped liver! That was a brutal fight.

If this was true explain how at least 5 of his guys who were undefeated got knocked off. ? Broner has faced Maidana and Porter . Frampton vs Lsc , Porter vs Thurman. .. :)

Some people are only gonna see what they want to see :)

Its actually a complete 180 of this statement. Haymon's fighters fight the best opposition of all the promotion companies out there.

He consistently puts ranked fighters together and most shows are based and sold on high quality matchmaking.

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all haymen is the best thing to happen to boxing in years. free fights on tv. no more PPV crap. id love to shake his hand. the welterweight division aint looked this good in decades and most them guys are his. all of them are fighting each other too. anyone hating on haymen can sit on a tack and whistle