Hi All -
interesting insight into SBW management per this article. Hes the same guy that rigged the heavyweight fight last year.
It seems the AIGs will bend over for anyone these days -
Interesting - rekin ARU or SARU do the same??
SUGAR Shane Mosley has likened Australian boxing to "the mafia days" - an indication of just how far the sport has tumbled in the past decade.
As revealed exclusively by The Daily Telegraph, ageing US great Mosley walked out on his Sydney fight with Anthony Mundine - scheduled for last night - after remaining payments on his $1 million purse were not met.
Asked about the debacle upon returning to Los Angeles, Mosley compared the Australian fight scene to being "like the mafia days" - admitting to fearing the Mundine fight was set be swayed by dodgy referees, officials and illegal betting.
One of the greatest fighters of the modern era also confirmed reports in The Daily Telegraph today that he would not be returning for a proposed card, to be promoted by Team Mundine, in Brisbane on December 4.
"It seems like they're still behind the times with their boxing - it's like the mafia days,' future Hall of Famer Mosley said in an interview with fighthype.com.
Sugar Shane Mosley arriving at Los Angeles Airport after pulling out from the fight with Anthony Mundine. Picture: Rupert Thorpe
"I'm hearing that people watch the judges; they're sitting behind them looking at them while they mark their scores and shit.
"Their commission is not really strong like ours, so it's like anything goes. That's what I kept hearing."
Mosley said he was not convinced he would be paid the rest of his purse and added: "And then the referees and judges; I don't know who they were. I think they were Aborigine refs and judges or something.
"It was bootleg. I was like, 'Naw, y'all crazy. Y'all trippin'. So I was instructed to get on the plane and get my ass back because it ain't happening."
Mosley also said he feared "being stiffed" when members of Team Mundine phoned him at Sydney airport, shortly before he departed, claiming they now had the $700,000 still owed to him.
"Even up until the fight, they didn't have the money," he said.
