Legacy or Money

Money = Legacy. If you go after the money, the legacy will follow.

 

Hence, money=legacy. However, I'm going to have to deviate from that a little. Money and legacy will go hand and hand as long as the legacy fight will produce an exciting fight, or at least a fight that gets people excited. Read my earlier post and pay attention to the part about Pac to see what I'm talking about.

 

This is an important point, because the fact is that if someone can't retire on five million, they won't be able to retire on fifty million. Money management is a matter of mentality, not amount/quantity.

 

That isn't the only statement you made, though. Money = Legacy works as Legacy = Money since it's commutative, but you also added the premise, "If you go after the money, the legacy will follow", which is what I think was being responded to, since it is possible to reverse that.

 

Yes, this is many times the case. This is case in Pac situation. There are many times when a fighter can have a choice between two fighters and fight the lesser fighter for more money without hurting his legacy.

 

Legacy for me. When/if I have to support a family, that opinion may change though.

 

Legacy 4 sure but u need money to live so the 3rd option

 

Winky Wright a great fight fought pretty mmuch everyone and doestn duck anyone but hasnt seen a payday of Floyd who chooses big money fights.....hell i'll go as far as to say Winky is very much overlooked by many people but he is a great boxer....however....he fought everyone and has lost or looked bad because of a style match-up which hurts his marketability.

 

All the legacy in the world didn't help Louis when the tax man came knocking.

 

Money, anyone that says other wise is lying. Simple as that

 

real talk. id go with money. but id try to establish a legacy while making that money. the way i look at it. times are hard now days and if u can establish enough money to retire early like floyd claims to b doing then ur good. you'd have no finacial worries for the rest of your life. unfortunalety money talks. and we are all going to witness that in sept when we the part 2 of the worst fight of 2007.

 

If I were better than average, with the chance of becoming good, e.g. Thysse: I'd go for money, but would give my best at all times and never take fights where I am expected to sell my skin.

If I were good, with the chance of becoming very good, e.g. Bika: I'd go for legacy until I entered my peak, and then, I would go for a combination of legacy and money. Bika is a better man than I, in his position.

If I were very good and had a good chance of being border-line elite, e.g. Bute: I would go for legacy, no doubt. I would fight the fights best able to prepare me for the big time, and then go for the best, as soon as I'm entering my peak, win or lose, time after time...daring to be great, so - legacy. Money would obviously come with that. I wouldn't say no to big-money fights either, but only after hitting my peak, when I start to fade a bit.

If I were better than very good (border-line elite) hoping to become elite, e.g. Kessler: I would definitely go for legacy. A lot of money would come with that. I would only take big money fights at the end of my career, and only if I still have a good chance of winning.

If I were elite, with the chance of becoming an ATG e.g. Calzaghe, I'd go for legacy only. A lot of money would come with that, but I would only take the biggest legacy-building fights out there. Wouldn't look at money at all, at any stage of my career.