Ok, so I've boasted about having Dana on speed dial, but I've only done it to try and describe where I'm coming from on alot of this. Boxings not a glamour sport (any more). I have friends who are much greater connections than me, who drive second hand Hondas, and date second rate women.
What I'm saying is, look at who actually writes boxing. Amateurs. Hence, the bar isn't actually set too high, if you want to spend a few weeks in an entourage! You know, most people could get to know a lot of guys in the industry, just by turning up regularly at events.
But, I think it's time for less bark, and more bite.
You will probably recall the "Mayweather $100 million" media story going about last week. This was a Top Rank media campaign, to coincide with the debut of the Pacquiao vs. Mosely documentary series.
You'll notice that a lot of the trusted sites just ignored this. There's a good reason. It's false. However, as stated, Bob has his fingers in a lot of media pies, so some sites found it impossible to ignore. He's owed a lot of favours.
How did the media campaign work?
Bob Arum gave a interview to Pacquiao.com. with, pretty much, a scripted sound bite, stating that there had been "secret negotiations" with the Mayweathers, and that Floyd had demanded $100 million.
My sources tell me that he then released this, to his video stooge Elie Seckbach, who tends to assist with a lot of Top Rank campaigns. Elie then released it again, claiming it was in response to his own exclusive interview, and was in fact "off the hoof". It wasn't. The original interview, was created by Top Rank themselves, and handed to Seckbach.
My sources tell me that Seckbach then released another media interview 24 hours after, with Roger Mayweather. The interview was around 7 seconds long, and was basically Roger saying "Floyd is getting $100 million" for the fight.
There is a reason the interview was only 7 seconds long. That's all that was left after Seckbach, according to my sources, edited 90% of it out.
There's a reason he had to edit 90% of it out. As the interview actually happened in August 2010, and was in reference to another media story at the time, which was about an offer Don King made to Floyd Mayweather, for exclusive promotional rights for the Pacquiao event, which was for, yes, you guessed it, $100 million.
My sources tell me, he cut out all references to Don King, to make it appear like it was a response to Bob Arum's recent interview. It wasn't.
What was the true story.
Don King offered Floyd Mayweather $100 million, in August 2010, for exclusive rights to promote the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao bout, under Don King promotions.
What was Bob Arum's version.
Mayweather demanded a $100 million purse, for the Pacquiao fight.
Most fans picked up on this quite quickly. But to give it more credibility, my sources tell me Arum then threw the story at Dan Raphael, and the stooges at Examiner.com, requesting they go with it. ESPN, reportedly, needed some persuasion, as it's essentially false, but Dan Raphael being Dan Raphael, they eventually went with it. Even though they basically wrote it with the "this is probably false" disclaimer running through the article.
Examiner.com writers, being amateurs, and in essence, extremist Pacquiao fans, needed no persuasion, and have been happily running "Mayweather wants $100 million" stories ever since.
One persons missing though. Michael Marley. You'd have thought he'd have jumped at the chance to help his buddy Arum out, as he usually does. However, there was a problem. Marley actually reported the orginal "Don King $100 million story" in it's entirity, at the time, in 2010, so in order to report Arums new version, he'd have had to essentially admit his original article was dog-crap. And Mike's ego is bigger than the sun, so that was never happening.
That's an essential run down of how a lot of this crap works.
The protagonists in this false rumour basically being:
Bob Arum
Elie Seckbach
Examiner.com writers
A formidable threesome, that will come up again and again from hereon
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