Have us real boxing fans been mugged?

God another "Im entitlement boxing fan" !! If you don't like how boxer, manager, and networks run boxing, then don't watch!

You're NOT paying any of their wages, you're pay to see them fight, and fighting is risky, so risky, that fighter pay for their own medical.
Their own retirement, and very high insurance..

Not to mention, sparring partners, manager, trainers, gyms, and promotors.. All that **** cost, all of that comes out of the fighter pocket!

Bottom line Fighters don't owe you ****, you don't like the risk, THEY take don't watch!

 

We pay them for risking their lives and stepping into that ring for our entertainment, yes. If the business/political side, something involved in literally every aspect of life, doesn't comfort people then they could easily stop watching. That's just how it is and will always be.

 

Hatton also turned down Witter back when it mattered for other bigger fights despite the British public backing Witter's call-out up. Gatti turned down Mayweather and stalled till he eventually had to take this fight. Froch also turned down rematch attempts with Ward despite already fighting him and surely has other "turned down" stories that I'm completely forgetting at the moment.

There isn't any fighter that literally "fought all", it's physically and mentally impossible. Training camps, depending how tough/long they are, take their toll on their bodies and minds especially as they age(takes time/years for them to build names depending on promotion). You're an intelligent man, you should know this by yourself. Don't completely fall for whatever the media labels as "warrior". These fighters are human beings after all and have their limitations like we all do.

 

Pac was in great fights with "past it" guys. He's been ko'd twice by regular guys and knocked unconscious by a great fighter for 4 minutes. Nobody ever ducked Pac. People in boxing thought that Pac was a fukken cheat and Floyd and Morales were bold enough to have him tested. He lost to Morales after being tested, and he will lose to Floyd-after being tested.

 

There is no such thing as "ducking", that's a term, no offense to you, only idiots and hormonal clueless adolescents use. There is something called "turning down option A for option B", which translates to, turning down an option for a better one financially and generally. Was fighting Concreto because a bunch of idiots were screaming(thanks to Arum's masterful promoting) a better feat than moving up to 154 and fighting WBC Champion and the biggest name in the sport at the time Oscar De La Hoya?, was that a "duck"?.

As far as the UFC is concerned. Hell no it's not better for fighters, especially not financially, to have one organization dictate all. Boxers get paid far better than UFC fighters for a reason.

 

Not this idiotic story again. atsch

 

Witter and Hatton should've fought period.

 

There isn't a single fight out there that makes sense like Mayweather vs Pacquiao, that's a fight/event in its own league. Witter and Hatton were used as an example and nothing else. If you want another example, then I gave you Leonard vs Hearns. They did stall on that fight too before finally making it for business reasons. Hagler vs Leonard is another example, Lewis vs Tyson and many more.

 

He wouldn't have the best vs the best if it didn't make business sense. Sometimes it takes time to make certain fights bigger, juicier and financially bigger.