John McCain: "I Still Say Boxers Need a Union,They Need to Have Retirement Benefits"

[Domain]

What does that have to do with retirement benefits?

they get paid enough money to retire in the future lol

[fightingfigs]

War McCain hes the man and right guy for president.

[SkillspayBills]

McCain is going to need a retirement fund after this election, that is for sure.

[pigdestroyer]

What does that have to do with retirement benefits?

I think his point of the retirement funds, was if you're an injured boxer. Notice how was saying he was hurting while boxing?

So I assume that would mean if you're a 0-5 boxer who breaks his wrist and you wanna retire - no.

But if you're 0-5 and you get in body trouble, like Oscar Diaz and wanna retire. He should. Though I think if Oscar Diaz had retired, he'd get a lot more and better treatment than the 0-5 guy.

[-Boxzilla-]

i thought the fund would pay you as much as you put in it . . . a lot of other sports do it, actors and writers have it etc. . . it would be nice to think that the boxers who have given so much to the sport and our entertainment do not have to be destitute once they're to old to fight. or that they can actually retire when they get to old to fight instead of taking unnecessary punishment.

[Murray]

Howbout making sure everyone can retire without worrying about blowing their retirement on medical bills?! Strange concept..I know.

[Scott9945]

Please believe me when I guarantee you that boxing won't be affected one bit by whoever wins the election. McCain does like boxing, but he'll be buried so deep with more serious issues he'll be lucky if he has time just to watch the fights.

[Alexis Vastine]

I vote for McCain-***** in a steel cage match, and the loser gets eaten by Bowe.

***** would win easily.

I think retirement benefits are going a bit too far, as some prizefighters are just part timers or didn't really contribute much to the sport. Also, they have short careers and long retirements. They usually get what they are worth. that is why it is called prizefighting!!! However, I do agree with the thing about a union. Most industries have one, and other sports people have bodies such as the PFA.

[El Jesus]

I personally think the idea of the union is ******. Boxing is a sport. Its not like any other sports are handing out retirement plans. Thats why they all keep working as commentators or espn analysts after they retire.

A union, something EVERY SPORT has, is ******? Come on.

[El Jesus]

What does that have to do with retirement benefits?

Everything, there cant be just some general union like that because each sport and governing body has a different economy, you cant grant someone in the MLS the same retirement benefits as someone who plays pro lacrosse, there are different fundamentals financially for each sport, with boxing, they get screwed worse than anyone with employment on a contract basis thats practically "at will" with little to no rights to the fighter, a union would be interesting because it would likely mandate certain promoters to include certain clauses for different classes of fighters to garuntee their safety or garuntee a certain amount of money after the fact depending on their success as a fighter, (amount of titles etc) which would set them up for arbitration as their career went on.