Has one-fight-a-year become a standard in boxing and no longer a big deal?

[OnePunch]

It's based on a few things: the level of the opponent, the dollar needed financing cards being put on, marketing time, and to top it off, the world is in a financial recession everything is slowing down.

If Canelo can fight twice a year, theres no excuse for people making 1/10th of his purses to only be fighting once a year.....

[tomhawq]

They're all waiting for the proverbial money fight. Meanwhile, prime years are being wasted and they never take into consideration 'what if' the money fight never comes?

[El_Mero]

It's a simple question.

Honestly hope not. Al and co. Continue with their bs

[Marchegiano]

I looked at top ten guys (tbrb & ring) in all 17 divisions about a year or so ago & the avg overall was guys fought 1x every 8mos or 3x every 2yrs. So its not quite THAT bad yet lol.

Do you remember any skewing? Like as in a few weight divisions for whatever reason fight more often than a few others. Anything like that? I'm just interested and I don't really follow sub WW.

[brettWall]

Not a big deal anymore. It's even used as an instant excuse when the 'one fight a year' guy don't perform up to par.

That's the strangest part. While the fighter in question would rather just keep quiet about the long layoff or take responsibility, it is the fans that provide long layoff excuse as if it's somebody else's fault.

[Eff Pandas]

Do you remember any skewing? Like as in a few weight divisions for whatever reason fight more often than a few others. Anything like that? I'm just interested and I don't really follow sub WW.

The lower weights were more active.

Every division was between 1.4 (175, 160, 147 & 140) to 2.0 (105) fights per year. So a fight every 6mos to 8.5mos was the full range. The avg was 1.6 so a fight every 7.5mos so ig I rounded up to 8mos & forgot about it.

Looking at my notes I checked ages too & there was correlation between activity & age as you might expect. Younger top ten ranked guys fought more.

105lbs - 27.4yrs (#1), 2 fights (#1)
135lbs - 27.6yrs (#2), 1.9 fights (#2)

200+lbs - 34.2yrs (#17), 1.6 fights (#9t)
160lbs - 33.6yrs (#16), 1.4 fights (#14t)
175lbs - 33.4yrs (#15), 1.4 fights (#14t)

[BustedKnuckles]

They're all waiting for the proverbial money fight. Meanwhile, prime years are being wasted and they never take into consideration 'what if' the money fight never comes?

It really has become some sort of lottery scheme.Too many fighters are waiting on that winning ticket.

However, with the types of decisions/scores/stoppages we see these days, it also seems to be a lottery when they do fight.

[MONGOOSE66]

Yes, if we’re lucky………,,,,,,,,

[maguirre]

Depends what fighter.. Big charlo is once every 3 years. One Time Thurman is every 5 years lol

Yeah, it's awful. It's as if they will always be in their primes. Such fighters probably have 2-3 fights left to retirement. Maybe even less. Then the stock begins to decline in terms of money opportunities. Cost of training alone is not cheap.

[maguirre]

If Canelo can fight twice a year, theres no excuse for people making 1/10th of his purses to only be fighting once a year.....

Twice a year is not even that much of a big ask.