{"id":380545,"date":"2026-01-01T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380545\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:42:07","slug":"boxingscenes-2025-promoter-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380545\/","title":{"rendered":"BoxingScene\u2019s 2025 Promoter of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShoulderRollThu Jan 1, 2026, 1:37 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Tasman Fighters?  WTF?  <\/p>\n<p>They had a better 2025 than Top Rank and PBC?  Why wasn\u2019t Fernando Beltran and Zanfer mentioned, with all the guys he co-promotes like William Zepeda and Xander Zayas?<\/p>\n<p>Is this the level of boxing journalism we\u2019re going to get now with all the UK bias on this site?<\/p>\n<p>drabljThu Jan 1, 2026, 12:54 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>jake paul is the best promoter. as a novice in boxing business, he brought big exposure and big purses to fighters and himself. that&#8217;s the point, right? i watched 0 of his fights and only 1 video with him in it (michael blackson clip which is extremely funny).<br \/>\nteiken was good. hearn and warren did almost nothing without turki. everybody else was bad.<\/p>\n<p>boxingitisWed Dec 31, 2025, 10:29 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>ITop Rank look doomed at this juncture. I&#8217;m a huge admirer of Arum&#8217;s work ethic through his eighties and nineties when 98% of his contemporaries are dead never mind flying around the world promoting fights. But very soon it ends &#8211; just realism &#8211; and maybe the lack of a sucession plan is hurting them when it comes to getting a new disribution deal. <\/p>\n<p>Oshaqui Foster fought in PBC PPV<br \/>\nNakatani, Inuoe, Mason, and Brian Norman just fought in Ring DAZN PPVs<br \/>\nTeofiomo, Keyshawn, Carrington about to fight in Ring 6 PPV DAZN.<br \/>\nMuratalla vs Andy Cruz in DAZN.<br \/>\nNavarette about to fight Nunes in DAZN.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see them struggling, actually I see them all in better fights.<\/p>\n<p>Xayas about to unify.<\/p>\n<p>Inueo vs Nakatani coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Top Rank has the best stable out of all promoters. Top Rank Leaving Gay Disney was for the best.<\/p>\n<p>SmashWed Dec 31, 2025, 10:01 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>wheres don king<\/p>\n<p>SteveMWed Dec 31, 2025, 9:28 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Top Rank look doomed at this juncture. I&#8217;m a huge admirer of Arum&#8217;s work ethic through his eighties and nineties when 98% of his contemporaries are dead never mind flying around the world promoting fights. But very soon it ends &#8211; just realism &#8211; and maybe the lack of a sucession plan is hurting them when it comes to getting a new disribution deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShoulderRollThu Jan 1, 2026, 1:37 AM UTC Tasman Fighters? WTF? They had a better 2025 than Top Rank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,162199,82],"class_list":["post-380545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-promoter-of-the-year","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}