Texas Hold’em: Carl Frampton the latest player dealt into U.S. boxing’s high stakes game

While May 2 heralded the end of boxing’s most notorious cold war inside the ring, it was the coming together of two prominent power brokers outside it which ultimately made the fight a reality.

Through an unprecedented series of cloak and dagger concessions, promotional powerhouses Bob Arum and Al Haymon found the middle ground required to stage the historic Floyd

Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao match-up. What soon became apparent, however, was that those concessions amounted rather more to a ceasefire than a truce. Indeed, the feud resumed in earnest on July 1 when Arum filed a 50-page lawsuit against Haymon, requesting $100 million in damages