Baby Bull’s future with Main Events questionable
Juan Diaz and his team are in negotiations to determine whether they’ll remain under contract with Main Events Inc., the New Jersey promotional outfit which has helmed Diaz since he turned pro in 2000.
I’d say Diaz’s leverage just got that much stronger with Arturo Gatti’s Saturday showing, as Main Events may be without the services of their most notable performer, the Human Highlight Film…
Main Events has until the end of August to decide whether to re-sign the WBA lightweight champion, the Houston Chronicle says.
“They’ve got first right of refusal,” Diaz’s manager Willie Savannah said. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to square all of this stuff away so Juan can go ahead and [move] on.”
Savannah said the negotiations make a Diaz/Diego Corrales early October bout, which has been proposed, impossible.
“‘The negotiation period with Main Events is not going to be over with until August, so that’s not enough time for Juan to prepare for Diego,” Savannah said.
Diaz, at age 22, is on the super-short list of next generation American superstars.
At 30-0, the unbeaten Baby Bull is in the driver’s seat when it comes to hammering out a top-tier deal.
Can Main Events promise and deliver the type of money and status that King, Arum, De La Hoya or Gary Shaw could?