Comments Thread For: A matchmaker moves on: Why Eric Bottjer is changing careers

[BoxingUpdates]

Bottjer has made boxing matches for more than 30 years and worked with many major promoters. Although he is ready to leave his career, Bottjer plans to remain involved in the sport.
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[Bennyleonard99]

Eric Bottjer is one of the best writers in the business actually, also with his extensive background in the industry, a historian. Every one of his articles and features he's produced - for Boxing Update, Boxing Digest, Facebook posts - has been a home run. Im sure he will excel as a media figure and podcaster. He knows where the bodies are buried and then some more.

[OnePunch]

Pretty hard to be a matchmaker these days when these divas fight once a year and will only fight a dummy unless they get 3 tuneups first...........

[57Blues]

James Gang Song Title : Walk Away....................

[Bennyleonard99]

Pretty hard to be a matchmaker these days when these divas fight once a year and will only fight a dummy unless they get 3 tuneups first...........

Mayweather and Haymon ruined boxing in America. The Eastern Euros duck nobody.

[juanpablo]

I've been watching boxing since I was a kid and I haven't been as disengaged from the sport as I am right now. No one wants to fight unless they get a gazillion dollars, no one wants to take risks, etc. It's pretty dissapointing tbh

[57Blues]

I've been watching boxing since I was a kid and I haven't been as disengaged from the sport as I am right now. No one wants to fight unless they get a gazillion dollars, no one wants to take risks, etc. It's pretty dissapointing tbh

Yea i am the same way, i came up with boxing it was a sport like any other sport as far as access and respect of the people in it. Access to any sport is required for it to exist, well except now in Boxing.............so what does Boxing to it is hidden in a small part of mainstream sport there only to feed on itself and the few left in it. One of the greatest sports, the draw for Boxing is as natural as throwing a punch in anger, or ducking when one comes back and they have made it a joke a disrespected circus.

[Deleted]

interesting how so many blame those risking their lives and don't say a word about those who controlled the industry for so many decades. For some, It's like things materialized out of thin air and boxers got greedy.

I'm sure y'all will create a fund to support boxers that take damage that will haunt them forever, loose out on $ because of currpt judges and sanctioning bodies. What about funerals and taking care of the families of fallen fighters.

What $ of fighters make the big $ and earn enough to retire?

The business model is messed up, it's in an odd phase trying to find a new approach but, money is still the problem. To many en****** trying to get rich quick using boxing and doing so with no regards for boxers.

[Bennyleonard99]

Arum and King are about billionaires, Sulaiman too lives in a palace. Todd Duboef. Lou Dibella. Barry Hearn. Frank Warren. Eddie Hearn. They give nothing back. Mayweather ruined the sport with his ducking and handpicking and coward philosophy. The sport in USA is done. All good things must come to an end. Boxing is at the finish line.

[OnePunch]

interesting how so many blame those risking their lives and don't say a word about those who controlled the industry for so many decades. For some, It's like things materialized out of thin air and boxers got greedy.

I'm sure y'all will create a fund to support boxers that take damage that will haunt them forever, loose out on $ because of currpt judges and sanctioning bodies. What about funerals and taking care of the families of fallen fighters.

What $ of fighters make the big $ and earn enough to retire?

The business model is messed up, it's in an odd phase trying to find a new approach but, money is still the problem. To many en****** trying to get rich quick using boxing and doing so with no regards for boxers.

I get so tired of the crybabies whining about fighter injuries. When it comes to the "most dangerous jobs", boxing doesn't make the top 50. And nobody is forced to do this job. They CHOSE it. So enough with all the tears. Do you lobby equally for loggers, roofers, taxi drivers, the guys working the fishing boats, coal miners, steel workers, etc etc to all be paid millions of dollars, or is your virtue signaling just for boxers?