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作为前无可争议的两届世界重量级冠军的儿子长大, 小哈西姆·拉赫曼, 不介意全世界都会从他职业拳击生涯的开始就关注他.
“这并不新鲜,” 拉赫曼解释说. “我已经习惯了做我自己,习惯别人注视着我,没有他们会很尴尬. 我这辈子是谁并不重要, 或者我做了什么. 全世界都在关注我的父亲。”
小拉赫曼, 他的父亲, 遇到 “摇滚” 拉赫曼 (Rahman) 在四月份击败了伦诺克斯·刘易斯 (Lennox Lewis) 2001 赢得WBC和IBF重量级冠军, 将在对阵堪萨斯城的布莱恩·伊姆斯的比赛中首次亮相 (1-4, 1 KO) 上 星期四, 三月 23, 2017, 格雷格·科恩促销活动’ 超级乱斗® III, Skylands 活动中的拳击比赛 & 会议中心 (ECC) 在伦道夫, 新泽西州.
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“我爸爸就像一个顾问,” 他继续. “我爸爸是我认识的唯一一个真正把我的最大利益放在心上的人. 我曾经接触过的其他人, 归根结底总是归结为金钱. 我爸爸从不向我要任何东西. 我知道他了解比赛,而且我知道他在我的球队中, 天空才是极限。”
25-2 岁的拉赫曼备受期待的拳击生涯起步晚于预期. 业余选手连续 100 场比赛取得成功, 嗡嗡声围绕着6′ 3″ 250-磅. 战斗机, 但一场致命车祸 2012 看到他服务 2- 惩教署判处 5 年徒刑.
最近发布,现在准备继续生活, 拉赫曼说整个经历改变了他. “这让我大开眼界. 经历这件事确实改变了我的职业生涯以及我作为一个人的感受, 和一个儿子, 父亲, 和一个丈夫. 它改变了我. 我很感激上帝保佑我能走到今天这个位置。”
拉赫曼表示他对第一个对手艾姆斯了解不多, 但他和教练肯尼·埃利斯正在巴尔的摩厄普顿拳击中心努力训练.
“我感觉好极了. 我真的很着急, 但紧张情绪还没有开始. 它将在战斗时间左右. 我的团队说这对我来说是一场精彩的战斗. 休假两年半, 我希望参加几轮比赛。”
尽管推迟了开赛时间, 拉赫曼团队没有仓促行事的计划.
“我只想尽可能地保持忙碌,尽可能多地学习,并在准备好时为世界冠军而战. 我不会着急. There’s no rush. 我不会永远等待. 当我准备好并且我知道这是否投入工作时,我会为冠军而战, 我将在大约两年内准备好. 这就是我的目标. 如果需要三四年, 确实如此. 无论情况如何. 我会继续努力击倒对手,直到它发生。”
对于拉赫曼, 追随他著名父亲的脚步的决定是一个理性的决定.
“我总是被教导要提前计划. 当我上中学的时候, 我真的很喜欢足球. 我打近端锋, 跑卫和外接手. 我有梦想. 但我突然意识到有多少人和我有同样的梦想. 例如, 每年有 100 万年轻的非洲裔美国男子想要进入 NBA. 400,000 他们中的一些人会打高中篮球. 4000 其中将上大学. 35 将被起草. 出于那个 35, 只要 7 将开始. 这意味着有一百万人试图获得 7 就业机会. NBA的平均职业生涯是四年. 这是一个问题. 人们必须考虑自己的胜算. 我做到了. 所以, 我说‘知道什么? 而不是成为这个巨大的人群中试图成为下一个雷·刘易斯的人. 我很少遇到想成为世界重量级冠军的人,’ 所以我决定这么做. 没有父子二人组成为重量级冠军. 从未做过. 对我来说,能够在重量级冠军历史上巩固我们的家族声誉是非常激励人心的,我已经准备好充分利用它。”
与 Greg Cohen Promotions 签约是一个简单的决定, 根据拉赫曼, 他已经认识这位泽西岛的发起人大半生了.
“我真的要感谢格雷格·科恩给我的机会,” 他说,. “我从小就认识格雷格,他一直相信我. 他一直支持我并保持联系和关注我. 他对我有真正的兴趣. 格雷格已经知道他拥有世界上最好的新重量级拳手. 我真的致力于让他和我的父亲以及巴尔的摩市感到自豪。”
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Nobody wants to fight undefeated light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev (ř)
(Photo by Vincent Ethier)
MONTREAL (三月 13, 2017 – 狮伊冯·米歇尔 (健身房) 总统 伊冯·米歇尔 has responded accordingly to unfounded allegations recently made in the media by 沙利文巴雷拉 about GYM and its undefeated world light heavyweight contender, 阿图尔Beterbiev, to set the record straight regarding the recently announced cancelled Beterbiev-Barrera International Boxing Federation (IBF) light heavyweight title eliminator.
“Despite Barrera’s claims,” Michel insisted, “he didn’t sign a contract because he never intended for fight Artur. In Team Barrera’s letter, he lied and showed his ignorance trying to distract from the facts.
“For the conclusion of this unfortunate saga, the IBF has informed me that it has ruled to ban Barrera from its world rankings, or from participating in one of its sanctioned fights, for the next six months. I’ve also been informed that, if nobody in the IBF top 10 is available and agrees to fight Artur, the IBF will declare him as its No. 1 mandatory challenger for the winner of the Ward-Kovalev rematch. Artur will be back in the ring in late April, early May. The mandatory defense for the Ward-Kovalev II winner, or Ward if that fight doesn’t happen, is due in September.”
IBF Light Heavyweight Ratings: 冠军 – 沃德, 1. Unrated, 2. 阿图尔Beterbiev, 3. 谢尔盖·科瓦廖夫, 4. 埃里克Skoglund, 5. Enrico Kolling, 6. SUSPENDED, 7. 奥列克Gvozdyk, 8. Dominic Bosel , 9. 罗伯特·斯蒂格利茨, 10. Trent Broadhurst.
下面, Michel sets the record straight, point-by-point, in terms of the open letter Team Barrera sent to the media.
Michel didn’t negotiate with Barrera’s promoter, 凯西Duva, and asked for it to go to an immediate purse bid.
“凯西Duva (CEO/Main Events) came to my office the day before the deadline set for Barrera’s acceptance to participate in the IBF title eliminator to speak about the situation. Our hope was to fight Barrera but because he is prohibited from traveling to Canada, I confirmed our intention with Ms. Duva to accommodate Barrera and leave Canada and make the fight in the United States. We were in the same position a year ago, when Barrera pulled out of the same title eliminator because he couldn’t get a visa to fight in Canada. Artur was then supposed to fight Karo Murat, but he suffered an injury and was unable to fight. Barrera later defeated Murat to move into the IBF mandatory position in which he then lost to Andre Ward.
“Kathy told me the number she had in mind to make the fight. I said that I would see if there were enough resources for that amount and promised to call her the following day. I did and explained that there weren’t enough resources to meet that purse structure. 然而, not long after I received confirmation Barrera was officially taking the challenge, I then decided to move forward and immediately requested a purse bid date, which is the prerogative of any promoter, knowing what was Main Events’ expectation in terms of their fighter’s purse. In this business, everybody knows the best way to determine the true market value of a fight is a purse bid, where promoters are evaluating their resources and making their bid accordingly. We still had still seven days to make an offer, one and other, and make a deal up to five minutes before the bid was due. Main Events never made us an offer and neither did we.”
GYM’s winning purse bid was $251,000, substantially more than Main Events’ bid of $182,000, of which Beterbiev would receive 75-percent of the winning bid. Barrera would have received $62,750, 相比 $45,500 he would have earned if his own promoter had won the bid.
Beterbiev reported on social media that his fight versus Barrera would be held March 4日 布鲁克林, New York and Michel reported that the fight would be held in late March, early April, 在纽约. Barrera had trained for those dates but didn’t receive a contract.
“GYM won the purse and pursuant to IBF rules and regulations, the fight had to be held within 30 到 90 天,” Michel continued. “We deposited $50,000, per IBF rules, and received a confirmation letter from the IBF all was conform. As per IBF regulations, 中 15 天 after the purse bid, we filed contracts for the two fighters. Artur signed his five minutes after he received the contract and it was then sent to the IBF. We executed Barrera’s contract, sending it to Main Events for Barrera with a copy sent to the IBF. Soon after I received notice from the IBF that everything was in order and that we had complied with the IBF requirements.”
Michel sent an improper agreement to Main Event listing various dates.
“We knew we had a PBC date, 或 四月 14, 21 或 29. It’s very common for fight dates written in the initial fighter contract to vary one week before or after the date listed. I contacted IBF president Daryl Peoples and said April 21ST was the most likely date but that it could end up being a week earlier or after. He recommended to be transparent and to write all three potential dates into the contract. We did and then sent it to Main Events for Barrera to sign. Main Events noted that IBF rules said only one date and site could be written in the contract. Daryl complied with the objection so we then officially confirmed April 21ST would be the date of the fight and Florida the site. We then sent a GYM executed corrected IBF bout agreement back to Main Events to be signed by Barrera and filed with the IBF on February 16日.
“与此同时, GYM received a request, from Main Event to produce a Provision of Service agreement for Barrera’s participation. GYM was not obliged to positively fulfill that request but, as a display of good faith, we did so in belief the contract that Barrera would sign and Main Events would file it at the IBF office, on that date, as per its rules. 不久之后, GYM received a letter from IBF championship chairman, 先生. Lindsey Tucker, that all requirements had been fulfilled to officially sanction the bout.”
The Florida location for the fight had been selected by GYM for three reasons. 1. Beating Barrera in his own backyard would send strong message for Beterbiev within the division; 2. GYM had received an offer from Miami-based SMY Sports and Entertainment’s president M. Eric Senecal, who wanted the buy the rights to produce the event; 3. GYM’S longtime and very close relationship with Florida-based Warriors Promotions, 先生. 莱昂Margules.
On behalf of GYM, Margules had reserved the 4月21日 date with the Florida Athletic Commission. SMY Sports & Entertainments made a deal with GYM that had a deadline to deposit the agreed upon money guarantee. They had reserved the Seminole Hard Rock arena in Fort Lauderdale. If SMY was not able to deliver money and site, GYM had a backup plan, proposed by Margules, who had a deal and a site on hold, Hialeah Racetrack in nearby Hollywood (FL). No matter what would transpire, the fight was guaranteed at a site in Florida, 四月 21ST for a PBC event to be televised on FS1.
Barrera’s manager was contacted by one of the promoters to help pay Yvon Michel and finance the bout.
“This is a tortuous claim and a terrible lie,” Michel said. “Nobody representing GYM ever made that kind of request. The truth is a local promoter, M. Michael Luzbet, whom I’d never met and never made any deals of any sorts with in the past, wanted to be a partner with SMY Sports and Entertainments. He tried to raise his share of money to participate but SMY rapidly disassociated themselves from Michael Luzbet.
“How the group (SMY) was raising money wasn’t really my concern, but they had found sponsors and were counting on the important Quebec community residing in Florida at that time of the year, as well as the important Cuban population and their contacts with the Russian community, to sell VIP tables and tickets. It wanted the rights to put the show on in Florida but they were concerned because they had heard a rumor that Barrera hadn’t signed a contract and he was going to pull out of the fight.
They then requested a guarantee that Barrera (谁住在迈阿密) was going to fight before confirming their money deposit. I was in Quebec City at that time for the Alvarez-Bute fight. 先生. Lindsey Tucker was there representing the IBF and I spoke to him. He said he believed the IBF had received a signed contract from Barrera. I contacted SYM to say everything was fine and that I had requested a copy (of the Barrera-signed contract) from Lindsey. Daryl People then informed me that there was a misunderstanding and they did not have a signed contract from Barrera. It is only then I realized Main Events had pressured Barrera to sign the agreement without success. We asked the IBF president to pressure Main Events to have Barrera sign the contract because, without it, we were jammed in the promotion of the event. This is exactly what happened.”
Team Barrera implied that Yvon Michel couldn’t promote a show of this magnitude in the U.S.
“I’ve promoted more than 200 节目, never defaulting or cancelling a single show, including involvement in more than 50 world championship fights and many multi-million dollars events, much bigger than this title eliminator. This statement just shows his ignorance about what we’re all about and who we are and was just smoke screen to his behavior. I’ve promoted shows with the majority of the major promoters in the world; DiBella娱乐, Warriors Promotions, Don King Promotions, 金童, 主要事件… just about everybody. It was unbelievable for them to write such an impertinent line.”
Team Barrera unjustly belittled the quality of Beterbiev’s last two opponents, calling them cow farmers from Argentina.
“This is terrible to be so insolent to fellow world contenders. Both fighters were world ranked in the top 15 当时. (Ezequiel Osvaldo) Maderna (23-2, 16 科斯) had never been knocked out and (圣伊西德罗) 普列托 (26-1-3, 22 科斯) had suffered only one loss, a decision to the WBC #1 contender Eleider Alvarez. Beterbiev knocked them both out (Maderna in the fourth round, Prieto in the first), so downgrading the quality of Artur’s 2016 opponents was totally unwarranted. If Barrera ever actually got into the ring with Beterbiev, he would have fallen into the same category as Maderna and Prieto, who were both fierce competitors but not in the same league of Beterbiev.”
Michel firmly believes Barrera never intended to fight Beterbiev for his share of the purse bid and, to cover up, he tried to place the blame on others. His promoter spent time and money for the bid at the request of its fighter, 巴雷拉, believing he had a legitimate chance of winning the fight. It is obvious that sentiment was not shared by Barrera, even if the fight was to be held in his own backyard in Florida.
“The truth of this matter is that Barrera lied to distract media attention from the fact he didn’t sign a contract and clearly wanted no part of Beterbiev,” 米歇尔总结道. “We don’t disrespect any contender who prefers not to challenge Artur Beterbiev for the mandatory position. We also believed that Main Events did everything in its power to convince their fighter to keep his words and to go forward with the fight. Main Events is not at blame. We also have respect for Barrera’s fighting abilities but we have no respect for the person Barrera is with his despicable, unprofessional, shameful and disgraceful attitude in handling the present situation.
“就我个人而言, I have never met Sullivan Barrera. I never had to directly communicate with him, I never had to do business with him, everything went through his promoter, 主要事件, and I really don’t envy them! 在即, GYM will have two light heavyweight world champions and I can guarantee Barrera will never be in their plans.
“We’ve moved on from Sullivan Barrera to find an opponent who has the desire to step into the ring to fight Artur Beterbiev. While Barrera will still be suspended by the IBF, Beterbiev will be World Champion!”
Beterbiev, a two-time Russian Olympian, holds two amateur victories over his fellow countryman, 科瓦廖夫, the former world light heavyweight champion. Whether it’s Kovalev or Ward, Artur Beterbiev will be more than ready for the challenge to fight for the world light heavyweight championship this September.
信息:
叽叽喳喳: yvonmichelgym, @ABeterbiev
Instagram的: @YvonMichelGYM, @Groupeyvonmichel, @ArturBetebiev
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关于伊冯·米歇尔集团 (健身房): 狮伊冯·米歇尔 (健身房) 始建于 2004 作者:伊冯·米歇尔 (Yvon Michel) 和他的同事. 该组织的使命是通过教练支持,特别是竞争性管理,培养高水平拳击手. 实现其目标, GYM积极招募人才、举办活动,与热门剧集相关联, “总理拳击冠军 (PBC),” 并与 Loto Quebec 建立了主要的 Videotron 合作伙伴关系, TVA体育, 视频中心, 蒙特利尔赌场和利米湖, Tonik GroupImage 和 Lapointe 牙科中心, 除了与 Rixa 密切合作之外.
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