Boxing should come 1st not $$$ or safety

[GhostBlade]

Boxing is a business because it has rules. Everyone would like to see the best of the best boxers face each other but there is plenty of politics involved as there would with any big business.

[RAV3N]

The most uneducated post I've ever read. Man you are very naïve.
This is professional boxing. Once you see the word professional it means people are getting paid for it and making a living out of it.
When you see a boxer getting into the ring, he's often surrounded by many people. All those people are there for a reason but mostly they all want a piece of the pie.There are some you do not see behind the scenes who make these fights possible including TV companies and various sponsors. Those people are all stake holders and each has their own interest in the fight. What this means is that boxing is an industry and industries are mostly motivated by money.Every other need is secondary to that and of course various other aims come into play.
So to say safety and money are not important you only want to see good fights shows a clear lack of intellectual ability, childishness and naivety of the highest order. Why would the best fighter fight an equally good fighter if what motivated them (money) to turn professional is relegated to the lower echelons?

Well when did I say that safety and money wasnt important? You should use your intellect to actually read properly.

Im sorry that if I expect the best to fight the best in the sport of boxing just as the best plays the best in any other sport on the planet.

btw is your name bob arum because your post sounds like something that he would say.

[RAV3N]

Have you ever laced up a pair of gloves to fight !!

Not in a pro or am fight no but what does that have to do with anything?

[champion4ever]

I wholeheartedly agree with what you are saying from a spectator point of view. However, if boxing was my profession, I won't lie; I would probably do what the vast majority of fighters do and that is to fight the best fights for the most amount of money and for the least amount of risk.

After all, these guys are putting their health and lives on the line, each and every time they step between those ropes in providing us with entertainment. If I was a prizefighter my first and foremost concerns would be health, family and securing enough money for retirement.

[RAV3N]

Boxing is a business because it has rules. Everyone would like to see the best of the best boxers face each other but there is plenty of politics involved as there would with any big business.

Its sad to say but over half of the people who replied to my thread said that they didnt want the best to fight the best and that safety and milking money is much more important.

Its a sad day for boxing, I have lost a lot of respect for some of the posters on here.

They arent true boxing fans at all.

[Doctor_Tenma]

So for all those so called "boxing fans" who think that a boxer's bank account and safety is more important then the best fighting the best please go and do us all a favour and watch a safe sport like golf.

A true boxing fan should want the best fights imo, I see too many posters on this forum saying that boxing is a business first so fighters should be trying to earn money instead of fighting the best fights out there.

Boxing is a combat sport, it isnt meant to be safe.

No one is against the best fighting the best, it's more like you still have idiots that for some odd reason can't see it from the fighter's perspective.

[Resilient]

Its sad to say but over half of the people who replied to my thread said that they didnt want the best to fight the best and that safety and milking money is much more important.

Its a sad day for boxing, I have lost a lot of respect for some of the posters on here.

They arent true boxing fans at all.

Try and see the perspective of a boxer...

You're in an extremely dangerous sport where you can die in the ring...

You have two options... get punched in the face for 500k or get punched in the face for 1million?

Which option do you choose?

[RAV3N]

Its sad to say but over half of the people who replied to my thread said that they didnt want the best to fight the best and that safety and milking money is much more important.

Its a sad day for boxing, I have lost a lot of respect for some of the posters on here.

They arent true boxing fans at all.

No one is against the best fighting the best, it's more like you still have idiots that for some odd reason can't see it from the fighter's perspective.

Did you read what some people are posting, they clearly prefer milking money to the best fights.

Have you watched rugby where every time they go into the scrum they can break their necks and be left a quadriplegic? They do it everytime without question.

I pay for their fights, why shouldnt I expect the best fight possible.

I can see it from their perspective, maybe it comes down to personality.

If I had the skills as top 10 p4p fighter I would try my best to be the greatest I could.

[New England]

you're incredibly naive if you expect a fighter to put boxing ahead of his health, money for his family, etc.


you want people to die? be veggies when they're 45? that's what happens in boxing.

[PainfromUkraine]

I think the reason you have got quite a lot of negative responses is that you mentioned 'safety' and I don't think everyone understands, I see a lot viewed it as you implying safety shouldn't be a consideration. IN GENERAL - you are rarely going to see a fight not get made because a fighter on either side is worried about their 'safety' (publically anyway).

I say in general, there are exceptions but that's not a big or widespread problem IMO. If it's the fault of a fighter's team not letting him fight someone for safety reasons...well, then he is probably not deserving to be called the best, thus the best v best fight is a moot point.

Money, on the other hand, is definitely a problem in this sport in terms of match-ups...and of course, I think many would agree that the fights should come before the $$$, but unfortunately, as we all know...boxing is a business, that's the way it is.

Funnily enough, some fighters who don't want to get themselves into dangerous matchups are perhaps worried about their safety, yet if they get some ****** money figure to fight, they will do it.

So money is the big problem.