Why does every boxer feel like they only need 2 fights a year these days?

[Stone Roses!]

Probably has something to do with not wanting to become punch drunk.

^^^^^ This, and if you can make hundreds of thousands fighting once, why even bother fighting 5 times a year?

[FeFist]

Young boxers tend to fight 3-5 times a year. Obviously when you hit your 30s you need more time to recuperate.

[Suckmedry]

They can afford to do that and still make good money. You can see why they do it, but I agree, it's ****.

[Ray*]

When you are a top fighter, fighting 4 times a year is out of the question and that has to do with a lot of reasons, Injuries, money are two of the major reasons.

[Uturn]

Look at David Haye, the man fought once at the start of year and hasn't enquired about any fights since. He is a disgrace to british boxing

[MUNG]

Big klit fought in sep and dec 2009, may 2010 and now probably in oct 2010, that would be almost 4 times in a calandar year and yet haye has had one fight in 2009 and one in 2010 and hes on a break!! Amazing really and klit is almost 40 LOL

I think we all really know why hes on his "break" though, when the klits have their fights tied down he will resurface and say there ducking him

[_original_]

As boxing fans we're at the mercy of boxers/promoters who manipulate the supply/demand of their product while trying to maximize and extend the shelf life of their investment for as long as possible.

When a boxer is young and unknown you have less demand for them cause people don't know who they are so they get more fights to build them up.

After a young boxer starts making a name for himself after being very active against a certain type of competition the demand for the boxer increases. They turn into promising prospects to watch out for so you get slightly more demand and slightly less fights, sometimes even the same number of fights if you're lucky.

As the boxer starts creating more demand a lot of things happen. They have more people wanting to watch them now, and the competition gets tougher, but things get risky for the boxers/promoters. Just when things start to get good for the fans it all goes to hell cause it's essentially one investment going up against another investment and someone isn't gonna end up happy so you get all of the business BS.

Instead of the fans getting all of the fights they want to see, the boxer/promoters are busy trying to maximize and extend the shelf life of their investment for as long as possible.

There's a cycle of building, cashing in, and cashing out. Different boxers have faster/slower turnover rates than others, but all in all it basically adds up to risk/reward. Fighting 1/2 times a year is less risky than fighting 4/5 times a year, and with the money some of the top guys make I'm sure they're not complaining.

Even when guys do want to be active it's hard because so many opponents aren't, so they get stuck with matches that no one asked for or not fighting at all, and after a certain point boxers can make money no matter who they fight so why not?

Good for business, bad for fans

great ****ing post bro!

I also want to add the hard training camps and tough mentality a boxer puts himself through before fights....I imagine they would like to minimize such things and venture into other businesses or spend time with family and friends instead


they don't make them how they use to