Al Haymon's Black Hopes

Charles Martel · May 9, 2014

Al Haymon manages a lot of the fighters we see on Showtime. Most of them are negroes, while a few are Hispanic.

We now see the same discrimination against white boxers at Showtime that we used to have at HBO.

Without Ross Greenberg and his assistant (Haymon's long-time friend) Kery Davis at HBO, the network now seems to be more willing to show good white boxers like Kovalev.

Haymon was quoted a couple of years ago in The Ring magazine as replying "no" when asked if he would ever manage a white boxer.

Some of his clients:

Deontay Wilder
Andre Berto
Floyd Mayweather
Adrien Broner
Adonis Stevenson

a5308860 · May 9, 2014

I remember after both Vitali and Adamek bashed up Haymon's Arreola, HBO stopped showing HW fights for awhile. Ross Greenburg put out a statement saying "We're out of the Heavyweight business." The anti-Klitschko types claimed it was because the K Bros were "boring." It was really because none of Haymon's guys were good enough to beat the white HW's.