And they do on ESPN instead of pay-per-view or the premium cable networks that have dominated boxing in the past. "You'd have to go back to the '70s to a time when all the big fights were on free TV," Arum said. Boxing's reliance on paid TV gave the top fighters big paydays over the years, and served promoters like Arum well. "You're 100 percent right for implicating me and the other promoters," Arum said. "He's got the Cuban style and doesn't take chances to win decisions, but he can't do that with Lomachenko," Arum said.

Source: Philippine Star December 08, 2017 03:11 UTC