Boxing Business Quotes

I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.

I think a fight with Errol Spence is easier to make than Lomachenko because of promotional reasons.

I won't wait for this Joshua-Wilder-Tyson Fury nonsense and become a pawn in their negotiations.

My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.

I think Roy Jones is a great fighter, a great puncher. But you know, he doesn't use the jab. But he's got everything else going for him. The problem that hurts Roy Jones in the boxing business, in the celebrity business, is his attitude. Attitude hurts, because you say a lot of things that you probably don't really mean and you say them because you don't want to be put down. But you've got a lot of people who don't like what you say, and that hurts. And that's what Roy Jones has been hurt by. That's what I have been hurt by.

Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.

I've noticed since I've been out is Eddie Hearn and this fight gives me an opportunity to shut him up.

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

I love boxing, but there's a business side. I don't like a lot of people in the sport.

At one time, when I was first starting, when I was first champion, I wanted to be undisputed champion so I could hold all the belts and no one else could say they were champion. Then you realize the boxing business, the politics, get involved and it's not very likely you can accomplish all that.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

Bob arum is Manny Pacquiao's boss, Floyd Mayweather is his own boss.

Boxing's a business, and I've got a great team around me who have been looking after me in that sense.

The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.

Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem.

I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.

It's been frustrating. Since I've broken into the top five, I've seen the politics of fighters dodging fights, cherry picking fights and this that and the other.

Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.

I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around my weight class.

When they said, 'Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?' it was because Manny Pacquiao had a boss. I don't have a boss.

You've got to sell fights; you've got to be entertaining.