If all fighters become their own promoters how would that change the game?

[MasterPlan]

Only a boxer with a name or strong following will have a successful promoting career.
So everyone can do it but it won't worknfor everyone.

[McNulty]

99% of those "promotional" companies are vanity plays (or tax dodges) and will never stage a single event.......

Corrrect.

But what if they do?? thats the question at hand

If fighters were in charge of their own career's, Boxing would close shop in ~10 years.

Look at Spence and Garcia. They're fighting lacklustre fights. Fans will only take so much of that before they move on to something else.

Promoters spend money on marketing, purse bids, advances, venues, merch, etc. Boxers can't do all that on their own. Most of them are dumb as rocks.

Say Larry is becoming a top fighter and gets a card going. You get your undercard fighters in place, reserving a venue, pay the venue a deposit, money on training camp, purses in escroe, order the merch, money on marketing, insurance policies, licensing fee's, legal fee's, working with networks, ppv, etc etc.

Honestly, you wouldn't even have that kind of money unless you were already drowning in money which you never would because how would you have gotten the money in the first place? You also don't have the brain power to do it all either. The negotiating table alone will drive you up a wall.

By that time there is a lot of money exchanging hands. What if your opponent gets injured or backs out? You going to cancel the show? Cancel and lose money. Go on with the show and have a shítty opponent or change the headline act and your name is mud and you're losing money.

[BlakBread904]

Well, it depends on if the fighters are hiring someone else to perform the functions a traditional promoter does.

If no, then the sport goes to crap. If yes, then business as usual.

[Phenom]

99% of those "promotional" companies are vanity plays (or tax dodges) and will never stage a single event.......

Spence and Danny Garcia put fighters signed to them on their undercard same with most big names

[OnePunch]

you seem to be ******ed thinking just because someone is a boxer they cant be successful when that has been proven wrong

yeah, all the gyms are just chock full of 2-0 fighters who happen to have 60 or 70 grand liquid so they can promote an event......

[NearHypnos]

Fighters would dodge even more and itd be hard to follow some boxers who do dumb s hit for money and end up fighting in some stream only platform from some obscure romanian company

Then the richest fighter would start a league like the UFC and will have no “promoter” but have a s hit contract and get taken advantage of because theyd have no idea how to make an event.

Fighting on youtube for free and get filmed with iphones and drones

[BlakBread904]

Fighters would dodge even more and itd be hard to follow some boxers who do dumb s hit for money and end up fighting in some stream only platform from some obscure romanian company

Then the richest fighter would start a league like the UFC and will have no “promoter” but have a s hit contract and get taken advantage of because theyd have no idea how to make an event.

Fighting on youtube for free and get filmed with iphones and drones

hilarious