Thread: Do boxers fight for fans?

People saying Haye should fight another one for the fans.....but do boxers fight for the fans?

It looks to me like boxers take fights that make them as much money as possible which I guess is what everyone would do?

If you challenge yourself to be the best in the world and you reach world level status you will earn alot of money, if you then fight the best in the division you will further prove tyourself an earn more money.

But it seems when you are a world champ you dont have to fight the best in the division you can be a bit more picky so choose the fights that will earn you more money over a fight the fans want to see?

So does any boxer fight for the fans?

Well Im glad my first article has been so popular so Im replying myself just to make sure I get one!

ill help you out bro

i dont think a boxer will ever box unless he has to or wants to

so David haye wont come out of retirement just coz the fans want to see him again

a boxer might fight in a certain place or against a certain oppopnent or at a certain time to please the fans whilst he is still active

p.s. if you want to start a thread that gets a lot of comments you should call it something like

"Khan is scared of Cotto" or something and make up some crazy story about something completely unrelated he said in an interview once

or anything with pac or mayweather in the title

No it's a silly naive notion.

As you've said - Every boxer strives for his best money option. If they can't get that they are matched with fighters they're expected to beat. Simple as.

Remember Ricky "man of the people" Hatton had one last fight "for the fans" in Manchester. It was PPV. The opponent was a retired lightweight coming off a loss.

a) Ricky still made millions from his "fight for the fans"

b) It was a gimme (meant to be)

Originally Posted by Fenster

No it's a silly naive notion.

As you've said - Every boxer strives for his best money option. If they can't get that they are matched with fighters they're expected to beat. Simple as.

Remember Ricky "man of the people" Hatton had one last fight "for the fans" in Manchester. It was PPV. The opponent was a retired lightweight coming off a loss.

a) Ricky still made millions from his "fight for the fans"

b) It was a gimme (meant to be)

Ricky was poorly

Whenever a promoters says "this is the fight the fans wanted" it means it's gonna sell shitloads.

Originally Posted by erics44

Originally Posted by Fenster

No it's a silly naive notion.

As you've said - Every boxer strives for his best money option. If they can't get that they are matched with fighters they're expected to beat. Simple as.

Remember Ricky "man of the people" Hatton had one last fight "for the fans" in Manchester. It was PPV. The opponent was a retired lightweight coming off a loss.

a) Ricky still made millions from his "fight for the fans"

b) It was a gimme (meant to be)

Ricky was poorly

I think that was great business by Hatton. Not knocking him... just that was the exapmle I thought of.

Originally Posted by Fenster

Originally Posted by erics44

Originally Posted by Fenster

No it's a silly naive notion.

As you've said - Every boxer strives for his best money option. If they can't get that they are matched with fighters they're expected to beat. Simple as.

Remember Ricky "man of the people" Hatton had one last fight "for the fans" in Manchester. It was PPV. The opponent was a retired lightweight coming off a loss.

a) Ricky still made millions from his "fight for the fans"

b) It was a gimme (meant to be)

Ricky was poorly

I think that was great business by Hatton. Not knocking him... just that was the exapmle I thought of.

you think he was poorly on purpose?

Originally Posted by erics44

Originally Posted by Fenster

Originally Posted by erics44

Originally Posted by Fenster

No it's a silly naive notion.

As you've said - Every boxer strives for his best money option. If they can't get that they are matched with fighters they're expected to beat. Simple as.

Remember Ricky "man of the people" Hatton had one last fight "for the fans" in Manchester. It was PPV. The opponent was a retired lightweight coming off a loss.

a) Ricky still made millions from his "fight for the fans"

b) It was a gimme (meant to be)

Ricky was poorly

I think that was great business by Hatton. Not knocking him... just that was the exapmle I thought of.

you think he was poorly on purpose?

Not sure what you mean. You mean he was ill on the night of the fight?

He still won easy just had a little wobble. Nothing to serious.

I think fighters have to wanna take the physical abuse, not because of the "fans"

"Fans" pay the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ million revenue for fights.

So of course we need to be schmoozed and have token "I fight for the fans" mentions so we keep the revenue going.

Its all about US, think about it. The sponsors pay big bucks, why? because us fans buy the product. We buy what everyone is selling in a boxing promotion. We buy the good guy and wanna see him win. We buy the bad guy so we wanna see him get sparked. We buy the goods and services, we read the articles, we post on the forums etc..

So inside I feel any athlete could care less about the fan, but realize the millions of people that they dont know are essential to their wallet and way of life

Originally Posted by Fenster

Originally Posted by erics44

Originally Posted by Fenster

Originally Posted by erics44

Originally Posted by Fenster

No it's a silly naive notion.

As you've said - Every boxer strives for his best money option. If they can't get that they are matched with fighters they're expected to beat. Simple as.

Remember Ricky "man of the people" Hatton had one last fight "for the fans" in Manchester. It was PPV. The opponent was a retired lightweight coming off a loss.

a) Ricky still made millions from his "fight for the fans"

b) It was a gimme (meant to be)

Ricky was poorly

I think that was great business by Hatton. Not knocking him... just that was the exapmle I thought of.

you think he was poorly on purpose?

Not sure what you mean. You mean he was ill on the night of the fight?

He still won easy just had a little wobble. Nothing to serious.

yeah appartently he was ill on the night of the fight

talking about the wobble i think rickys punch resistence was going a long before that fight

after the mausser (spelling!) fight the only fights he was in where he wasnt rocked were castillo and mallinagi (spelling!) and mallinagi doesnt really count

just to add to that in all his early fights I hadnt seen him ever hurt at all

he went down against Magee but wasnt hurt

Originally Posted by erics44

ill help you out bro

i dont think a boxer will ever box unless he has to or wants to

so David haye wont come out of retirement just coz the fans want to see him again

a boxer might fight in a certain place or against a certain oppopnent or at a certain time to please the fans whilst he is still active

p.s. if you want to start a thread that gets a lot of comments you should call it something like

"Khan is scared of Cotto" or something and make up some crazy story about something completely unrelated he said in an interview once

or anything with pac or mayweather in the title

Cheers, and cheers for the tip

If I was Haye, I don't think I could quit yet. For me, becoming a British boxing legend would be my goal, I would want people debating how good I was in pubs up and down the country, 50 years after I retired. Nobody will remember David Haye, he has gone out with a wimper.

Fair play though, he probably know his limitations and that Vitali would dispose of him inside 9 minutes. And he's achieved his goal of becoming a very rich man, with his faculties in tact.

I'd rather see Haye comeback against Tyson Fury than Vitali. Pointless fight IMO. However, it certainly wont be pointless to Haye or Vitali because it's another HUGE payday