It would ruin the sport. Can you imagine the career of a journeyman under such conditions? Or the opponents of heavy handed fighters or even the consequences of a technically superior fighter dishing out a prolonged beating to an opponent that blocks shots with their head. Crazy.
I guarantee you that Kimbo could make 1/4 of a million for his pro debut though, regardless of who it is against, and be on ppv after a couple of fights, such is his fame.
Cus entered Mike into a number of unlicensed fights in smokers like the old boxing club on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx. Teddy Atlas would go too. The place was run by Nelson Cuevas. Mike did spark olders kids cold but they were all gloved up. By the time Mike started his amateur career he had already been hardened up in unlicensed bouts.