Well...a lot of guys still fight to feed their families, I'd say less then .5% of fighters can retire off the money they made just from boxing like these two can.

But money is ruining the sport a bit because, well when a fight doesn't get done because of money it is just so damn frustrating. You'll never hear out of Federer pricing himself out to face Nadal. Or Man U demanding to much play Chelsea. The 49ers will never make unreasonable demands to face the Cowboys, but in boxing you get that and that is a serious turn off. Maybe not to the casual fan but say someone gets into boxing to see RJJ vs Hopkins after the exchange they had, now how many times has that new boxing fan seen that fight fall through? It's a joke and that is one of the main things that hurts boxing.

The putting on a show thing, I don't think their is any shortage of hunger in boxing. So I don't buy that much.