How come fighters don't shame & chase down champions for a title shot enough?

Different reasons at different stages. Losing your 0 if you're a real hot prospect can absolutely kill the momentum of your career, and so if they're going to get in with a proper champion, they'll do it when their promoter tells them the money is going to be in the fight, or when they are likely to win

 

Easy to say when you're not the one getting punched in the head.

Without money in boxing it wouldn't attract good athletes. They would go to soccer, basketball, nfl etc. It's a necessary evil.

 

We need more of this

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Tyson used to do that kind of thing.

 

If you mean literally showing up at public events to taunt and challenge the opponent, that costs money. Who’s going to pay for the flight, the hotel and such?

And not just anyone can get ‘inside the ropes’ at say, a weigh-in or press conference. You have to have a credential to get thru the door (or past a certain point if it’s public). And the commission probably isn’t going to let someone who is not part of a fight (i.e. another fighter) come up on stage and start bumping and screaming and such because if someone throws a punch or whatnot it could lead to a cut or hand injury that cancels the fight that the outsider is crashing.

 

Multiple belts ruined this, when there was only one champion you either had to beat him or you were really no one.

Now with more belts red hot prospects can get to a title with minimum risk and make tons of money. So that's what they do,

 

This happens literally every day. People just use social media now ... wider reach, no cost.

 

He's such a child isn't he...

Shame he wasn't a better boxer because he would have really livened things up over his career.

 

Erislandy Lara did that exact thing to Canelo to get his chance and it worked.

Mosley stepped to Mayweather in the ring after a fight and got his shot.

Those are some recent examples. Not so secret security , James Bond , clandestine operation as you made it out to be.

 

You think the Mosley-Mayweather fight happened because of that? You think it wasn’t staged?

 

I'd say Wladimir Klitschko's long reign coupled with his refusal to fight any voluntary fights and his unwillingness to be promoted in America as the obvious Drago that he was killed all classic forms of promotion in the HW division for a while.

Embarrassing fighters publically and in the press goes back as far as Humphreys - Mendoza in the late 1780s as least and was practiced all the up until Wlad's reign, and returned toward the end of his reign with Briggs, Wilder, and Fury.

I'd rate Jack Johnson's absolute hounding Tommy Burns as the greatest call out to fight campaign ever ran in boxing. Ali was great at it, Mike was terrifying, but JJ brought the whole package. He was cheeky and terrifying.

 

Because a)ducking is so easy these days that a champ can avoid anybody forever and b)the purse system is closer to winner take all than a 50/50 business arrangement and it's not financially worth losing to either party to take a risk. If 50/50 splits were mandatory you'd hardly ever hear of ducking. People would always pick the biggest name with the biggest paydays to fight. Everyone would fight only their peers instead of mismatches. Of course, if 50/50 splits were law in the US, no top fighters would ever fight in the US when they could go to Canada or the UK and get a 90/10 split; so practically speaking that's just not feasible.