Quick question for our guys in the know but I'm wondering what a matchmaker actualy does, on paper it doesn't sound like that harder job? It seems that every promtoion has one even the smaller companies do you have to have one to get a promoters license?
I know that It just seems like such an easy job surely the promoter himself could do themselves and in the process save themselves a lot of money. I just don't understand how someone can get paid for doing that especially with the smaller promoters.
I didnt realise a matchmaker was seperate to a promoter? I thought the way it worked was that your manager seeks out ideal opponents and your promotional team try to make it happen and then publicise the fight? Sometimes the manager and promoter are one in the same like.
Well you have Dean Powell at Frank Warren but you also find matchmakers working for smaller promoters like Carl Greaves, Left Jab, Dennis Hobson etc. I can understand the biggest promoters having them but surely the smaller promoters who have more infrequent shows and have less funds could do without a matchmaker.
I always presumed they were different. Don't Warren's boys always talk about Dean (Powell) in their interviews when it comes to stuff like that. As in-the matchmaker works with the promoter and the fighter to find a fight, then its down to the promoter to promote it, and the boxer to fight it? Something along those lines I would have thought.
it's all the things in between. it's the guy making the calls (posibly overseas) in different languages maybe, the guy who searches for the right opponant. boxrec has limited the need for them now. but back in the day how would a manager know about a journeyman on the other side of the country. maybe in the ring magazine or a few guys in and around the area. but really it was inmpossible to do it yourself. finding somone who will be a challenge but will be beatable without video, and only calls to comunicate.
haha thats what I fought if I were the promoter I would just have a look on box rec and pick the opponent from there and then make the call myself. But I can see how they would have been vital back before the internet was around or in it's early days. There still seems to be a lot around though I don't suppose you have any idea how much they get paid do you?
Boxrec doesn't tell you everything though....... Plenty of fighters have **** records that don't actually reflect their ability - more so in the era of protecting young fighters. A lot of questionable decisions and stoppages are awarded to the house fighter. Most likely, it has always gone on, but these days it's easier to suss out what is going on. Here are some examples..... not all of them are obscure of course...... Tyrone Nurse 10 (0) - 0 (0) - indicates lack of power. Opponents faced are pretty weak, generally of the run away, don't get hit so I can fight next week kind. How can you judge properly? Mo Khaled 3 (0) - 7 (2) - 3 - indicates a lack of ability. However he stood the 5-0 Kevin Buckley on his head and lost by a point. Typical Ingle journeyman, mess him about for a few rounds etc. Breidis Prescott 20 (18 ) - 1 (0) - 0 - blasted out a lot of bums in Colombia.... was taken the full ten by a journeyman and because of his imposing stoppage record was cherrypicked to help get rid of the ''Khan won't face a puncher'' rumour. Clearly it didn't work, but his power is only slightly above average at best.
A matchmakers job is 2 fold for the promoters up & coming boxers his job is to find boxers who will extend their man but without too much risk & when one drops out he has the difficult task of finding a suitable replacement some do some don't & that's when we get the really bad miss matches we have all had to witness . A good matchmaker is worth his weight a bad one can cost a promoter's future success, Some could not match the cheeks of their own arse
its kind of an important job,a good matchmaker could bring a fighter on leaps and bounds,were as a bad one could cut short there career.Also in addtion you actually need to be liceansed ,like a manager/promoter.
