Do boxers fight for fans?

[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)

[erics44]

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

[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.

[erics44]

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?

[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.

[JT Rock]

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

[erics44]

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

[erics44]

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

[Fenster]

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