"He spent 18 months on the shelf and Romero and his employees nursed his career through that."Īlgieri contends he had to sever ties with his manager in order to reach his full potential as a fighter.Īlgieri now manages himself, while leaning on the advice of attorney Eric Melzer and DeGuardia. "He received the benefit of my guy's management and as soon as it came time for him to start pushing into bigger and better things, he dropped him," Gregg Pinto, who's representing Romero in the suit, told the Daily News. 9, 2014, according to a copy of the suit. The managerial contract, Romero says in the suit, should therefore be extended for the time Algieri couldn't box to "at least" Oct. The crux of the lawsuit is this: Romero says he should receive a percentage of Algieri's future purses since, for 18 months that Algieri was under contract, he couldn't fight because of injury. Romero even requested the fight with Provodnikov be called off but was rejected by a Manhattan Supreme Court judge days before the fight. The former manager, Humberto Romero, is now suing Algieri for breach of contract, alleging he's owed nearly $1 million in a suit filed just two weeks before his bout with Provodnikov. To accelerate his rise, Algieri cut ties with a former manager in February of 2013, claiming his contract was up and he wasn't doing enough to further his career. (He turned pro in 2008 after a career in kickboxing, in which he was a world champion.)įor years, Algieri clamored for DeGuardia to start booking bigger fights for him, of launching him from the Paramount Theatre, in Huntington, where he fought eight straight times before facing Provodnikov at Barclays Center. Getting that point across hasn't been a problem in his brief time in boxing. "How do I let him know that I'm the boss?"
"I just want him to know that I'm the boss," he says to one of the handlers.
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