Some posters on here (and fans in general) put a bit too much emphasis on fighter's purses and PPV revenues, IMO. While I'm not blind to the realities of today's boxing environment, I still think of boxing mainly as a sport where you're supposed to have The Best against The Best... ALL the time. But no... it's now viewed as a business first and a sport second. Personally, who gives a flying one HOW many millions Oscar made vs. Pacquiao or how many PPV buys it got? It was still a shitty display of boxing (by Oscar, anyway) and nothing more than a public humiliation. All in the name of wanting to cement a legacy and adding another small fortune to Oscar's already healthy bank account. Seriously... how many millions can a person need in a lifetime?

But the point is... I hear boxing "fans" (and I put the quotation marks on purpose) talk about how much money so-and-so got for fighting the other so-and-so... and how many PPV buys the fight generated. That's all well and good when the fight lives up to the hype in terms of the competitiveness and the quality of the fight. But when it doesn't, all this $$$ talk just leaves a sour taste for the real boxing fans.