HORUS PRESENTS: Promoters who don’t PROMOTE, and Fighters who don’t FIGHT

HORUS PRESENTS: Promoters who don’t promote, and Fighters who don’t fight. Boxing is not the problem. The problem is the fighters, the problem is the promoters. Promoters are hired to promote. Fighters are hired to fight. However, what we have going on today is damn near close to Professional mild neglect. Bob Arum made a great point when he said he is not trying to do another promoters job. And everybody in the boxing complains the best fighters are not fighter the best fighters, Money, Power, Respect is what everybody wants in boxing. But what is missing is collective responsibility to the sport and the fans. When was the last time a boxing match captured the imagination of country? Like Ali vs. Frazier When was the last time a boxing match was a lead story as news cast? Like Tyson vs. Holyfield When did promotion of a fighter stop a with just a simple TV date? Boxing needs Fighters and Promoters with imagination, animation, education, and dedication. However, none of that will come if the Promoter of these fighters don’t have a crude business savvy and a exceptional minds. Fighters need a Promoter or an adviser with a vision, and behind that vision should be a exceptional mind. 1.What is the promoter’s vision for the fighter? (Imagination) 2.and behind that vision, what is his plan? (education) 3.Behind that plan, what is his strategy? (dedication and action) 4.Is this promoter strategy budget big enough for it to be effective? Boxing is a beautiful sport, it embodies all we are as people. The sport should never be in the place it is now. Promoters who don’t promote, and fighters who don’t fight. As Fans we love the idea of being apart of a membership of a sport that gives us the best in human qualities, Love, Pain, Fear, Courage, Winning, and Losing. We invest time and money in supporting fighters who we think embody our values. In return, our fighters fight with a sense of responsibility that he has for all that support him. It is a basic human need. We all want to be apart of success. But now, we have lost that. Boxing has lost it’s sense of collective responsibility to the sport and the fans. With In house fights, corrupt judges, shady belt organizations, and risk advert fighters. Boxing has become horse racing. The critics who once said the sport is a cruel and inhumane endeavor that should be curtailed or outlawed. Now don’t even care about the sport to write an article, now they say the UFC is a cruel and inhumane endeavor that should be curtailed or outlawed. Boxing like Horse racing has become a niche sport. Everybody in the sport is in a hurry to make fame and fortune, Nobody wants to properly invest time and money in building fighter to be big in the future, but instead they rush their fighters growth and then we have circumstances like Danny Jacobs, Victor Ortiz, and to some extent Juan Diaz. So with that rush to fame we now have fighters protecting their image instead of their legacy. This problem is not just a 1 fighter problem, this problem is a ideology that’s in all fighters psychology. The ideology that says “Maximized the reward’s minimized the risk”, and “Don’t go in the water until you see blood.” We literally have our biggest and smallest sharks in the water afraid to eat fresh meat. This condition in boxing has taken decades of evolution. From fighters pulling out of the day of fights to get bigger purses. To Promoters hiding accountant records for their fighters so they can cheat them out of money. I don’t know what to do about it, except remind people that There are no shortcut’s to lasting success. So Promoter’s promote your fighters properly and fighters fight the fans that mean something not to just your legacy but to your fans. Email: Horusp4p@aol.com “This article, your reading, this argument, your response, is our legacy as fans to our sport. “