GLAAD rips Bob Arum a new one!

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Boxing Promoter Bob Arum Makes Anti-Gay Comments : glaadBLOG.org

The sports website Fanhouse reports today that 77-year old boxing promoter Bob Arum made several defamatory statements during an interview at Yankee Stadium on Thursday. Following a press conference on the upcoming Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight, Arum, the CEO and Founder of ’Top Rank Boxing,’ voiced disparaging and homophobic opinions about the sport of Mixed Marshall Arts (MMA). According to Fanhouse:

The 77-year-old boxing promoter criticized Floyd Mayweather for fighting “scared” and not being an entertaining fighter. Arum also seemed to squash any hopes of seeing a Mayweather-Pacquaio super-fight in the future. But his harshest words were saved for MMA, as Arum said the sport looks like “guys rolling around like homosexuals on the ground” and called MMA fans “a bunch of skinhead white guys.”



You can view the remarks here. The skinhead comments can be found at 4:40. The homophobic statement can be seen at 5:40.

GLAAD condemns Arum’s comments and calls on him to make a swift and sincere apology. This kind of gratuitous anti-gay commentary has no place in the public discourse and we’ll be reaching out to Arum directly to voice our concerns.

Check back here for further updates.

[DaClinch]

Do you frequent the GLAAD blog often?

[ZombieProphet]

GLAAD pretty much rips everyone a new one, but i hear after awhile the body gets use to it.

Originally Posted by DaClinch

Do you frequent the GLAAD blog often?

why, are you a homophobe?

[Lavalamp]

lol, Arum saw this video before he commented,

[Crono7]

He;s entitled to his own opinion,

who gives a shit what anyone thinks really

[ZombieProphet]

Originally Posted by lavalamp

lol, arum saw this video before he commented,

pure gold!!!

[mmanut]

I hate to hear someone who has little idea of MMA running off at the mouth about it being a sport for unskilled white guys, but I hate the idea of not being able to voice that opinion even more, and these days if you say anything about gays or utter the dreaded "f-word", you can't voice whatever opinion it was that you had, whether the point was about homosexuality or not.

Arum was dead wrong about MMA, like most people of his generation that grew up with boxing. These are guys that were weaned on John Wayne, "put up your dukes" and "never hit a man while he's down", so it's fairly understandable that they don't understand a completely different form of combat. His opinion that it looks like two homosexuals rolling on the ground is actually right, though. Obviously that's not what it is and BJJ is as intricate of an art as the sweet science, but anyone who can't admit that they or someone they've watched MMA with has likened it to a gay act is delusional. Almost everyone upon seeing the ground game for the first time makes a gay joke about it and to pretend as if the comparison isn't rooted in some reality is ridiculous.

[it is all over]

Originally Posted by ZombieProphet

GLAAD pretty much rips everyone a new one, but i hear after awhile the body gets use to it.




why, are you a homophobe?

is being a homophobe some kind of insult nowadays?

fuck glaad, why do they have to get involved any time someone makes the slightest comment about gays

[FreshPrince]

I really don't give a shit about GLAAD. Dana's comments about Lorretta Hunt and Arum's about mma in general were in poor taste, but america as a whole is becoming pussified if someone has to be burned at the stake for voicing their opinion.

[Sengoku**]

what he said was racist, ignorant and homophobic

whys it amazing for boxing to have a diverse crowd while its bad for the UFC to have white males....also what does having a tattoo have to do with anything.

whats race have to do with it.