Showing posts with label CAA. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports Loses CAA And Gary Shaw Promotions (Boxing)


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 Jay Z’s rip off Roc Nations Sports is imploding. First one of the two biggest agencies in the world, CAA, ended their partnership with Roc Nation Sports, that was created after sports leagues began making rules to keep incompetent, unintelligent, lawbreaker Jay Z out. Jay Z begged CAA to partner with him to get around new rules in leagues embarrassingly being called “The Jay Z rule” in sports circles.

The second blow arrived recently when prominent boxing promotions company, Gary Shaw Promotions, dropped Roc Nation Sports as well, severing all ties with the company. A number of prominent boxers refused to leave their promoters, managers and agents to sign with Jay Z. Two other top boxing promoters have taken exception to Jay Z trying to poach their clients they invested money in and built their brands into recognizable and lucrative names. Last month I heard a top black boxing promotion executive stated of Jay Z’s poaching, “I’m gonna fix this nig*a.”

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Jay Z Just Lost One, Roc Nation Sports Loses Partner

Feb 04, 2015 - Music mogul Jay Z`s Roc Nation Sports company just lost partner Gary Shaw after recently bringing in the renowned promoter. According to reports, Shaw and Roc Nation Sports went their separate ways last Friday (January 30).

He was in the process of finalizing the assignment of many of his fighter contracts from his old company, Gary Shaw Productions, to Roc Nation Sports. But things were not going smoothly - there was plenty of infighting at the company, according to various sources - and they decided to part ways in a surprising move. (ESPN)


Boxing News: Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports Suffers Major Blow Following Split With Gary Shaw Promotions After A Month. GSP Retains Bryant Jennings (Audio) 

The boxing arm of Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports has suffered a significant loss. RNS cut a deal in early January to acquire Gary Shaw Promotions and it's stable of fighters, including rising heavyweight contender Bryant Jennings. "On January 8, Shaw announced "I have officially joined Roc Nation. I'll be running their boxing division."

The newly formed teamed promoted a January 9 card at the Theater at Madison Square Gardens. Troubles soon followed after infighting between the companies began. On Monday, February 2. Shaw announced the two companies had parted ways.

"We gave it a try and unfortunately it did not work out for both parties," Shaw told ESPN.com on Monday. "It is an amicable separation. Roc Nation was very professional at our meeting and they allowed me to keep all of my fighters and my company, and terminate any agreements we had together. They gave me back my company."

"Both parties decided to go their own way and we wish Gary nothing but the best," said Roc Nation Sports spokesman Ron Berkowitz. GSP promoted fighters Jennings, interim lightweight titlist Darleys Perez, middleweight contender Tureano Johnson, lightweight Jonathan Maicelo, lightweight prospect Kenneth Sims Jr., welterweight Francisco Santana, unbeaten junior featherweight Roman Morales and former middleweight titlist Daniel Geale all leave with Shaw.

Bryant Jennings (left) and Wladimir Klitschko will battle on April 25. The loss of Jennings is an especially big blow to Roc Nation's fledgling boxing division. At 19-0, 10 KOs, he is scheduled to fight Wladimir Klitschko, 63-3, 53 KOs, on April 25 at Madison Square Garden. The fight will be televised by HBO.

Klitschko's WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO and The Ring Heavyweight titles will be on the line. Roc Nation still has one superstar boxer in it's stable. They signed WBA (Super) and The Ring super-middleweight champion Andre Ward last month. They also have two cards remaining on their three-fight deal with Fox Sports 1.

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

CAA Drops Roc Nation Sports Due To Athletes Avoiding Jay Z's Fledgling Company


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Recently, rapper Jay Z fancied himself a sports agent and manager, but things are not going the way he planned. Jay Z, real name Shawn Carter, started Roc Nation Sports and signed three athletes. He also inked a deal with powerhouse company CAA, as leagues were creating rules aimed at keeping the dangerously ignorant novice out.

After 2-years, CAA has broken ties with Roc Nation Sports, dropping the company as an inexperienced start up that is a liability. Jay Z does not have the manpower, experience or intellect to be a sports manager and or agent and is experimenting with people's careers. Jay Z is dispensing bad advice and promising athletes the world, in claims he is not equipped or able to deliver.

Recently, several top boxers turned down Jay Z's offers to join Roc Nation (Adrien Broner, Deontay Wilder and five other top pugilists). Many other athletes in several sports have passed on the company as well. It is a vanity project with no real foundation. You can't play with people's careers like that, especially in sports, where athletes have a limited time frame to achieve their dreams and secure their finances.

Jay Z has helped to destroy the music industry with illegal tactics such as criminal copyright infringement, payola, chart rigging and sales scams to inflate record sales which were caught and condemned by Soundscan (nevermind he's still doing it). Music industry sales are at an all time low.

Now, mentally deficient Jay Z has greedily turned his attention to the sports industry and has been illegally operating outside the rules of several leagues. This is a poor and disgraceful business model only employed by criminals and will undoubtedly do damage to the sports industry as well.

The New York Post quoted Robert Tuchman of GoViva sports marketing, who stated of the CAA and Roc Nation split, "If you're any type of client, the smart thing to do is to stick with the most powerful agencies, CAA and IMG. It's much  harder for people who are trying to build a business on their own by representing two or three people."

This is something the Judiciary Report has emphasized in past articles regarding hiring experienced, established  managers and agents (What Managers, Coaches And Trainers Look For In Athletes and Adrien Broner Apologizes To Jay Z And Rihanna For Profane Tirade But Does Not Retract His Claims About Them and In Boxing The Right Team Can Make All The Difference In The World).

Don't unintentionally damage your career by hiring an inexperienced upstart, who does not know the business. This is your career, which impacts your life and finances. Don't mess with it hiring inexperienced, greedy people seeking to exploit you for financial and social gain. You only have a few set years playing sports. Hire the best manager and agents you can, who have the most legitimate contacts and connections with big corporations, to maximize your revenues and expand your brand.

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