Is winning the fight not enough anymore?

[-PBP-]

Fighters are just returning the favor of what was done to them. "He screwed me over so I'll screw you over"

[maguirre]

Ducking pays. Big money. Ask Floyd.

[SthPaw]

It's no different than it's ever been. We're just a hell of a lot more exposed to the minutiae due to the age we live in.

Great point. On one hand you can blame fans for being too caught up in what negotiating can mean, some way too far.

BUT, as you say, the age we live in means we had about it a lot more. Before the internet and everyone having access to a camera of some kind, people in the boxing game didn't have cameras in their face and online articles hanging on their words 24/7 in the lead up to fights, they did their business and if something needed to be made common knowledge I guess it got took it to the press at some point. It is nowadays an era of much faster and a greater span of news coverage, so we hear all about the little things. Good point.

Still, some people in some fan bases hang onto it all way too much and even go to the lengths of arguing the finer points of negotiations in order to make their fighter seem the superior guy, which is pretty sad. You see some people argue about PPV gates, purse % splits etc in order to make their guy sound better rather than letting the fights speak for themselves.