Ironically, greedy and unscrupulous boxing promoters have long been both largely responsible for boxers being known to the public as well as keeping boxers unknown.
Historically, most boxers come from humble backgrounds and lack education. Boxing promoters have taken advantage of them for decades by taking on the role of father figures and confidants. Most boxers that were taken advantage of were under the perception that they were employees of their promoters, when it fact it was the other way around.
Towards the late 1990s, fighters started realizing that their promoters were not their bosses and more recently many fighters started their own promotional companies and began to promote themselves.
In spite of this development in the boxers’ sense of independence, there are still boxing promoters out there with this idea that they must have some type of paternalistic prepotency over “their” fighters.
After Vic Darchinyan's 11th-round TKO of Jorge Arce for the unified superflyweight title, Darchinyan was asked by Showtime sportscaster Jim Gray if he would like to have a rematch with the only guy to have beaten him, Nonito Donaire.
Donaire is the current flyweight champion and is undefeated. He dominated and knocked out Darchinyan with one punch back in July 2007. Donaire seemed comfortable with Darchinyan’s southpaw style and knocked him out with a counter left hook.
Darchinyan has since rebounded greatly from that defeat, showing the mettle of a true champion as he left the flyweight division and knocked out the best fighters in the superflyweight division in Cristian Mijares and Arce.
When asked by Gray about a rematch with Donaire, Darchinyan responded that he wanted a rematch just like a true champion would.
As Darchinyan was stating his desire for a rematch, the obese beer-bellied Shaw butted into the conversation and said, “Not a chance, you don’t reward disloyal people and boxers.” At that point, Gray butted in and said, “How about giving the fans what they want?”
At that point, Shaw stuttered and then rambled on about how he would let Darchinyan fight some other fighters not even in his weight class. Shaw is apparently “hurt” over the fact that Donaire opted not to use him anymore as a promoter.
You’ll notice that I did not say that Donaire “left” Shaw, because this would seem to indicate that Donaire had once belonged to him. That is something that greedy, power-hungry promoters like Shaw need to understand. They don’t own boxers. They are contracted by boxers to do a job.
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