Examples of fighters who turn down big money fights to instead "do the right thing"

[daggum]

But he still fought him. A lot of fighters would just get stripped cause at the end of the day, those belts mean jack.

But that championship meant something to Tony and when faced with making a career high payday or defending his belt he defended his belt. Most guys would have just gotten stripped no problem.

marg should have pulled a mayweather and just waited till williams lost and then said "see he's a bum!" but marg had to face his mandatory unlike mayweather who doesn't have mandatories because he's a special needs boxer.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

margarito/cotto was gonna fight. williams was his mandatory. it went to a purse bid. goosen won the bid. top rank didn't even make a bid because they were making margarito/cotto. team williams took them to court. margarito had to fight williams or be stripped. if he had it his way he would not have fought williams.

Well he couldve just dropped the belt. But he chose not to. So I would still count it.

[UglyPug]

Andy Lee fighting Vera when he could have never bothered with him again, and got an easier fight on HBO.

[daggum]

Andy Lee fighting Vera when he could have never bothered with him again, and got an easier fight on HBO.

how could it get easier? maybe manfredo but hbo was saving his corpse for chavez jr's next fight.

[-Kev-]

Roy Jones going back down to 175 for Tarver, instead of staying at Heavyweight and possibly fighting Tyson??

Didn't Jones wanted a Tyson fight and nothing else. In the Ruiz post fight, he said he'll stay only for a Tyson fight. People were asking for a Jones-Lewis fight but can't really blame Jones for not wanting to fight Lennox.

[Light_Speed]

Roy Jones going back down to 175 for Tarver, instead of staying at Heavyweight and possibly fighting Tyson??

Didn't Jones wanted a Tyson fight and nothing else. In the Ruiz post fight, he said he'll stay only for a Tyson fight. People were asking for a Jones-Lewis fight but can't really blame Jones for not wanting to fight Lennox.

Roy wanted to fight Lewis and Lewis agreed but he was scheduled to fight Kirk Johnson first(who pulled out and was replaced by Vitali). After the Vitali fight, Lewis told Roy he was gonna retire and he did. Holyfield turned down a fight with Roy because he had legal issues with Don King. Tyson agreed to fight Roy but he needed to get out of an exclusive deal so he filed for bankrupcy but he filed chapter 11 instead of chapter 7 and all his money went into an escrow account and was blocked so the fight couldn't be made.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Roy wanted to fight Lewis and Lewis agreed but he was scheduled to fight Kirk Johnson first(who pulled out and was replaced by Vitali). After the Vitali fight, Lewis told Roy he was gonna retire and he did. Holyfield turned down a fight with Roy because he had legal issues with Don King. Tyson agreed to fight Roy but he needed to get out of an exclusive deal so he filed for bankrupcy but he filed chapter 11 instead of chapter 7 and all his money went into an escrow account and was blocked so the fight couldn't be made.

Roy never wanted to fight Lennox

[guardian]

JMM for fighting Chris John instead of an immediate Manny rematch?

Agree..............

[D-MiZe]

David Haye turned down a big money fight with Wlad to fight Valuev. Thus when Haye did fight Wlad it would be for the WBA belt too.

What a hero.

[victorythagr8]

Shane Mosley fighting the undisputed # 1 Jr.Middleweight contender, Winky Wright, instead of agreeing to another Big-Money, third fight against Oscar Delahoya.

And this alone shows why you should take the money fight over peanuts. Not only that, but the right thing was shane to give oscar a rematch after some people felt that oscar was robbed.