Comments Thread For: Mike Tyson: Promoters Not Allowing The Best To Fight The Best

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Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has given the names of his favorite fighters in the sport - and two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is not one of them.
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[Oldskoolg]

Mike just offended the eddie Hearn militant ultranationalists

[Jack Rivers]

I love the one podcast where Steve-O tells how he met Tyson.

[Ant1979]

Not just promoters, fighters are just as bad. Too much love for money, making all parties risk averse.

Look at back in the day when Leonard fought Hearns (first time) in the WW unification for the undisputed. Both were undefeated with Leonard aged 25 and Hearns just 22!

Compare that almost like for like with Spence and Crawford or Mayweather and Pacquiao. Too many parties trying to squeeze too much out while waiting on the opponent to show weakness/deterioration.

It's what puts folk off, takes too much away from the sporting element.

[ShoulderRoll]

Mike is exactly right. Promoter rivalries are preventing the best fights from happening.

The big tv networks like Fox and ESPN could help the situation by refusing to sign exclusivity deals with any promoter. Instead they should offer to pay money only for the best fights.

[-Kev-]

Mike Tyson is right, and even if you blame promoters signing deals with a network of their choosing, it’s still the promoter making the deal and keeping the fighters separately for their own monetary gains. On the flipside, it’s a business, and an owner of a company has the right to maximize their earnings/profits. If that means prolonging their best fighter’s careers by keeping them away from the best competition they can fight, that’s on them. If as a boxing fan, you want to pay for that product, that’s on you.

[Smash]

mike is an euro loving scum

[Bob]

Mike's right.
Promoter's & fighter's don't want 5050 fight's when they can get a paper belt, call themselves champ, claim A-side, putting money, side of the street, tv bollox in the way of putting on the fight's fans want.

[Monty Fisto]

Mike Tyson is right, and even if you blame promoters signing deals with a network of their choosing, it’s still the promoter making the deal and keeping the fighters separately for their own monetary gains. On the flipside, it’s a business, and an owner of a company has the right to maximize their earnings/profits. If that means prolonging their best fighter’s careers by keeping them away from the best competition they can fight, that’s on them. If as a boxing fan, you want to pay for that product, that’s on you.

An owner of a company has the rights to maximize their earnings, but in every other sport you cannot avoid the competition and claim you are the number 1 or champ or whatever. The networks, the promoters and the governing bodies are all complicit in this strange fractured farce of multiple champions/ no real champion.

[Oldskoolg]

Mike is exactly right. Promoter rivalries are preventing the best fights from happening.

The big tv networks like Fox and ESPN could help the situation by refusing to sign exclusivity deals with any promoter. Instead they should offer to pay money only for the best fights.

How does that serve their business interests? While that seems like a good plan from the business point of view there’s no investment there