Bob Arum's comments about women's boxing following the announcement of Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano on April 30th, exclusively live on DAZN, haven't gone down well with the boxing world.
It's expected that Oscar Valdez and Shakur Stevenson's super featherweight unification clash will take place on the same night, this led to Arum claiming that women's boxing doesn't draw any attention.
When reacting to the veteran promoter's claims on the latest instalment of JABS, Segrio Mora immdiately disagreed, citing a generation gap as a reason why he may express these views.
"Of course, I don’t agree with it, but I’m from a different generation. Bob Arum was born in the 30s, he’s 90-years-old, there’s a huge generational gap," Mora explained.
"I’m not excusing that Mannix, disgusting is disgusting, those comments, you can’t tolerate that now we’ve come so far in women’s boxing.
"We know what they can do, they’re headlining Madison Square Garden where Muhamad Ali fought, where the greats fought and we have to give them their props.
"I think Bob Arum as great as he is as a promoter, he’s been in the game a long time, he’s a ‘Bobfather’, everyone loves him, he was wrong here, I think if you give him a chance, he’ll admit that."
Chris Mannix then followed up Mora's commments by giving a brief history lesson of how women's boxing has developed over the past 30 years and it's safe to say the discipline has come a long way.
"It’s just an outdated argument," Mannix stated.
"Now 10 years ago, while it still would’ve been a little condescending, it would’ve been completely accurate because 10 years ago, women’s boxing wasn’t in the place it’s in right now.
"In the 1990s and early 2000s, women’s boxing wasn’t so much about the fights as the occasional fighters.
"In the nineties you had Christine Martin who occasionally found her way onto a big show, in the early 2000s you had Laila Ali, people watched them when they watched them, just to see them.
"Now you not only have notable fighters, you have notable fights.
"Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano is the biggest at the moment in women’s boxing, but it’s not the only big fight in women’s boxing, at some point this year you’re going to get Savannah Marshall against Claressa Shields, that’s a big showdown in the upper weight classes.
"Women’s boxing, while not on the level of men, is certainly light years better than what it used to be so it shouldn’t be cause for sniffing at the idea it could compete with the calibre of a fight like Valdez and Shakur."
Mora then added that women have had to break down so many barriers to get the sport to where it is today and there doesn't seem to be any sign of women's boxing slowing down anytime soon.
"They’ve had to knock down barriers," Mora began.
"They still fight two-minute rounds, they want to fight three-minute rounds, they want to get paid more money, they want more main events, they want to be considered more, they’re getting all that in due time because they’re fighting!
"You’ve got to credit Eddie Hearn for not being the first promoter to do it, but he’s putting women championship fights on every card, Bob Arum is certainly not doing that. Golden Boy, they’ve started doing it, but Eddie Hearn is at the forefront of this and that is the reason why he’s pushing this fight."