DEAR DONG:
THE KIND OF VICIOUS LIES, LIBELOUS STATEMENTS AND RACIAL SLURS THAT CONTINUE TO COME OUT ON YOUR SITE AMAZES ME. EVEN SUCH A REVERED AND RESPECTED JOURNALIST OF REMARKABLE CLASS LIKE TEDDY BENIGNO IS BEING MALIGNED BY PEOPLE WHO DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHAT THEY WRITE OR WHOSE REPUTATION THEY SULLY.
AS FOR ROACH’S CLAIM THAT BOB ARUM CALLED HIM TO NEGOTIATE THE MORALES FIGHT WHERE MANNY WAS TO GET 40 PERCENT OF THE UPSIDE – ARUM HIMSELF FLATLY DENIED THAT HE EVER SPOKE TO ROACH ABOUT MANNY OR THE MORALES FIGHT. I WAS PRIVY TO THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN ARUM AND MURAD MUHAMMAD AND IN FACT DID A STORY ON THAT.
IF, FOR THE SAKE OF DISCUSSION, ROACH AND ARUM DID DISCUSS THIS, THEN ROACH AND ARUM WERE, UNDER THE LAW, GUILTY OF TORTIOUS INTEREFERENCE AND CAN BE SUED BY MURAD MUHAMMAD. BESIDES ROACH WAS GOING BEYOND HIS JOB AS TRAINER.
PLEASE ASK YOUR FANS TO BE REASONABLE AND TO STUDY ALL THE FACTS AND NOT TAKE EVERYTHING LIARS LIKE ROACH KEEP PEDDLING TO COVER HIS OWN MISERABLE FAILURE AS A TRAINER.
AS LENNY DE JESUS, THE RENOWNED CUTMAN AND TRAINER SAID “AFTER MANNY SUFFERED A CUT FREDDIE WAS SHAKING ALL OVER. HE BECAME REALLY OLD” AND DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. IN FACT HE SAID THERE WAS CHAOS IN THE CORNER EVEN AS HE SAID FREDDIE KEPT TELLING MANNY TO JAB AGAINST ONE OF THE BEST JABBERS IN THE BUSINESS WHO HAD A HEIGHT AND REACH ADVANTAGE OVER MANNY.
BUT THE MOST TELLING STATEMENT OF DE JESUS WAS “MAYBE FREDDIE DIDN’T WANT THE KID TO WIN!”
THINK ABOUT THIS.
AS FOR ME, I STOPPED MANNY FROM FOLLOWING THE ADVICE OF PEOPLE LIKE ROACH AND WINCHELL CAMPOS AND OTHERS, FROM SIGNING UP WITH GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS OR ANYBODY ELSE WHILE HE HAD A ‘LIVE’ CONTRACT WITH MURAD IN ORDER TO PROTECT MANNY FROM A LAWSUIT THAT WOULD HAVE PREVENTED HIM FROM FIGHTING IN THE US AND EARNING THE BIG MONEY HE DESERVED TO EARN. I TOLD HIM THAT AFTER HE FULFILLED HIS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE CONTRACT HE COULD DO WHAT HE LIKED. FORTUNATELY, MANNY LISTENED TO MY ADVICE.
ONCE AGAIN, AS FOR THE PPV SHARE. WHEN HE SIGNED THE ADDENDUM SPECIFYING THE TWO FIGHTS, MANNY HAD NEVER DONE A PAY PER VIEW IN HIS ENTIRE CAREER AND WE NEVER THOUGHT THE MARQUEZ AND MORALES FIGHTS WOULD BE ON PPV. BESIDES, THE MARQUEZ FIGHT WAS TO COME FIRST. WHAT GUARANTEE DID WE HAVE THAT HE WOULD BEAT MARQUEZ?
I AM TELLING YOU. THE NEW MANAGEMENT TEAM UNDER SHELLY FINKEL SHOULD HAVE IMMEDIATELY RENEGOTIATED THE CONTRACT IF THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. THEY HAD ENOUGH TIME TO DO THIS. BESIDES, THEY COULD HAVE TOLD ARUM AND MURAD THAT IF MANNY DIDN’T GET A PERCENTAGE OF THE UPSIDE, HE WOULDN’T FIGHT ON PPV. THEY FAILED TO PROTECT HIS INTERESTS AND NOW THEY ARE BLAMING US.
IF, AS ROACH CLAIMS, HE NEGOTIATED THE CONTRACT WITH ARUM, WHY DIDN’T HE ENSURE THAT THE PPV UPSIDE WAS INCLUDED? WHY IS HE BLABBERING ONLY NOW, AFTER THE FACT. IS IT BECAUSE HE AND THE FINKEL GROUP ENTICED MANNY TO SIGN WITH THEM PROMISING HIM 40 PERCENT AND SINCE THEY COULDN’T DELIVER ARE NOW ATTACKING OTHERS WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PPV DEAL?
I ASK YOU. JAMES TONEY , TRAINED BY ROACH AND PRAISED TO HIGH HEAVEN IS GETTING ONLY $1 MILLION TO FIGHT JOHN RUIZ FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP. MANNY GOT $1.75 FOR A NON-TITLE FIGHT AGAINST MORALES AT 130 POUNDS. AND ROACH IS BITCHING!
ROACH WILL GET 10 PERCENT OF PACQUIAO’S PURSE FOR TRAINING HIM. HIS SO-CALLED ASSISTANT WILL GET 5% AND HIS CONDITIONING TRAINER WHO WRECKS MANNY’S MIDSECTION AND HIS INTERNAL ORGANS BY BEATING HIM UP UNTIL HE SCREAMS IN PAIN WILL GET $20,000. YET, WHEN ROACH TRAINED MIKE TYSON WHO GOT $10 MILLION, ROACH COLLECTED ONLY $100,000.
MARK TAFFET OF HBO SAID THE PPV DEAL WAS WITH BOB ARUM AND TOP RANK. SO WHY ARE FINKEL, ROACH ET AL NOT BLASTING ARUM AND INSTEAD CRUCIFYING MURAD?
I AM NOT SAYING THAT MURAD IS A SAINT. MOST PROMOTERS HAVE THEIR FAILINGS FOR SURE AND SOME OF THEM MAY BE WHITE BUT ARE NOT LILY WHITE. LETS FACE IT, HE BROUGHT MANNY TO WHERE HE IS TODAY– A MILLIONAIRE, JUST LIKE HE PROMISED. HE HAD A RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY AS PROMOTER. THEY ALL DO, INCLUDING DE LA HOYA, ARUM, KING ET AL. THATS THE NATURE OF THE BUSINESS. THE PROMOTERS – IN THIS CASE ARUM AS LEAD PROMOTER WHO DEALT WITH HBO PPV TOOK A RISK AND IT WORKED OUT WELL FOR THEM. THAT’S BUSINESS. IF IT DIDN’T DO WELL THEY WOULD HAVE LOST A LOT OF MONEY ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY GUARANTEED MORALES $2.5 AND MANNY $1.75.
THINK ABOUT THIS.
GO TO THE INTERNET AND READ THE STORIES OF AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST THOMAS HAUSER OF SECONDS OUT, GREG LEON OF BOXING TALK, STEVE KIM OF MAX BOXING AND RICARDO LOIS OF FIGHT WORLD AMONG OTHERS. PERHAPS THEN YOU WILL THINK TWICE BEFORE LAUNCHING VICIOUS ATTACKS AGAINST PEOPLE LIKE US.
SINCERELY RONNIE NATHANIELSZ
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