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the stuff about the moon, etc, i am not going to address. i said as much in my last post.
dempsey didn't fight all that much, and many people think he avoided harry greb. he certainly wasn't fighting the best available constantly.
prior to dempsey you had a color barrier, keeping black fighters from competing with whites in many instances. again, the best are not fighting the best constantly during this time. the best are afforded the ability to pick and choose opponents.
joe louis fought lesser fighters for the extra paydays. the bum of the month club is exaggerated, but they weren't all the best available fighters, even if louis was champion.
robinson was a financially motivated fighter, and moved accordingly. it's called matchmaking, and it's been happening in boxing for as long as they've been wearing gloves. i don't go back much further than that.
ali is a bit different. he fought basically everybody. look at him now. he can't walk, talk, take care of himself. he's not all that old, and he didn't make as much money in boxing as a lot of people like to believe.
i don't discourage people from working toward an ideal sport. i tell them that it's not realistic to expect the best to fight each other constantly and have long careers or make the most money. boxing can't sustain that. at the very least, it would cause boxing administrators to leave the sport if it were mandated.
fighters want to make money and get out with their faculties intact. i'm OK with that. i'm not going to judge you, as this is the first time i've seen you post. others on this website refuse to recognize what motivates a fighter. they don't want to fight the best constantly. big fights come about. in the meantime, you can take an easier fight for a bit less money. the ones who tell you they want to fight the best constantly are either lying or naive.
the best message you can sent to a promotor or network in boxing is with your wallet. i don't discourage that. if you don't support a ppv, do not buy it. cancel your subscriptions to hbo or showtime and write them a letter.
recognize that boxing cannot operate the way a fan would have it operate. you don't let the patrons run a restaurant. they don't hold the same interests. fighters are going to be matched to maximize profitability in the long term for the respective promoters. boxers are going to try and maximize their profitability under the advisement of their managers. managers are going to try and maximize their earnings during the tenure under which they've signed the fighter to a contract.
private interests, and not the interests explicitly of the fanbase, got boxing into a ton of trouble recently. manny pacquiao got knocked out before he and floyd mayweather fought. that was a huge black eye in the sport, and an example of private interests, in this case GBP and TR, doing serious harm. i don't condone any of that. ideally, GBP and TR will learn from that. i encourage consumers of boxing to pressure GBP and TR. they also need to recognize that fighters are motivated by finances, and that they want to stay as healthy as they can.
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