Why don't we have "winner takes all'?

[baroidi]

why not just have them fight to the death, two man enters, one man leaves, ThunderDome!! The way the world is heading, it's not too far fetched an idea...

[Fanofreason]

Every fight should be 75-25 winner

That would fix boxing. No big fight no big purse

[Boksfan]

Are you gonna pay for fighter training camp, trainer and next year of living if he lose? In that case why not, lets have winner takes it all. Now go tell that to Floyd Mayweather, I wanna see how he slaps you

[Phenom]

It WOULD be cool to get MORE of the purse for a KO, though.

They do that on smaller cards and undercard win/KO bonus

But a winner take all is insane imagine going through 12 weeks camp and all of the expenses and end up taking an ass whopping for free

[Larry the boss]

why should the person who loses not get paid?? makes 0 sense

[buge]

not winner take all, but I agree that winner should take a large chunk of it

[_Rexy_]

Nobody is going to risk their life for free. Fighters would be going into debt with this. Camp fees, corner men, promoters...it’s all from the purse

[OnlyBeingHonest]

Ya'll think boxing has a lot of robberies now, it would be worse with winner takes all.

[Curtis Harper]

I understand that one fighter feels like they draw in more money so they deserve more but doesn't that mean he's not confident in his ability to win?

And I suspect it would make a lot of more exciting fights. A losing fighter will still try to give it all he's got if he doesn't have the "oh well i still get paid" mentality in the ring.

It would also stop a lot of bs fights where a nobody is calling out a big name just to survive and collect too.

Or am i just not understanding how it all works?

You'd never get regular fights made. Mismatches are a vital part to boxing and bums depend on that ''getting knocked the fu ck out'' money.

Unification bouts....now you're talking

[Bjl12]

I understand that one fighter feels like they draw in more money so they deserve more but doesn't that mean he's not confident in his ability to win?

And I suspect it would make a lot of more exciting fights. A losing fighter will still try to give it all he's got if he doesn't have the "oh well i still get paid" mentality in the ring.

It would also stop a lot of bs fights where a nobody is calling out a big name just to survive and collect too.

Or am i just not understanding how it all works?

You're a fuc.king idiot